Mid January
I’ve been remiss in keeping this journal. Mostly my excuse, which is pretty lame, is that I was getting ready to go on a tropical vacation so that Rich could have some peace and quiet on the farm. He really likes the cold weather. So does Rufus. So I thought it would be really nice of me to leave for a week or 11 days or so. So they could have a little vacation from me, you know.
I don’t really know many people with a hotel, really I only know one so I packed my bags and headed to Belize. Actually a little island of the coast of Belize called Caye Caulker, to my friend Jim’s hotel The Iguana Reef Inn. You can also find a link to it on our website.
I hope Rich appreciates what I’ve done for him. It was a long plane ride to get here just so that Rich could be alone to enjoy his favorite times of the year; Winter and Lambing Season. And really to make a lambing season perfect, it has to drop below ten degrees for 7 consecutive days. So I left just in time. The sacrifices I make for my family.
So here I am tapping my fingers just waiting until I get to go home again. Killing time. Not much to do really. I tried to get sunburned, but I think I just got a little tan instead.
I’ve had to drink a lot to fit in too. The local people on this island like to drink a lot. I heard that Sunday is a day of rest here, meaning I don’t have to drink as much but I’m still going to have a bloody mary now to maintain party like a rock star my image. In fact, I am pretty certain my entries would be far more entertaining if I wrote them while drinking. I have some recall of a discussion last night at a bar where I described my personal goal this week of outdoing the “Box in The Box” video recently proliferated by Utube. This, sadly, led to a “Utube? what’s that?” conversation and it all went downhill from there.
There’s talk of a possible boat excursion for lazy people sometime this week. It’s like a snorkeling trip without snorkeling. The outing will be led by a guide that goes by the name of Creek, who has a son named River and may be wearing a leopard Speedo and speaking into a microphone. I don’t know if I actually heard that or made it up. I’ll report back later this week and let you know.
