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I feel sorry for him and the desperate island expats trying to help him, get justice and prevent other people from being shot, beaten to death or catching a coconut with their heads, in a much-frequented area by locals and tourists alike.
As naive as I am, I never bought the bill of goods of Roatan or any other chic expat location being “paradise” (as I hear so often). There is the exciting and romantic honeymoon phase when moving to an exotic place which lasts 1 – 6 months, after that the masks start falling and the tedium of 3rd world hits and you become painfully aware that you don’t have the same rights, options and pull like you used to.
As long as one realizes that “paradise” has a heyday, a glory period and an expiration date, and as long as you prep and set in place some procedures and Plans A, B, C for crazy 3rd world scenarios, you may enjoy the ride while it lasts, maybe for a long time. Most people move to a “great place” based on a 2-week vacation and the hype of the “super awesome people” at the local beach bar.
Bitter, ain’t I?
Being a cop car, I’m thinking “doughnuts”? :)
Good question. I don’t suppose the queen was somehow trapped inside. Not sure if it has anything to do with the car’s color or smell that made them attach to it or if they felt threatened and are attacking the car. Bees fly en masse like that only when they swarm, i.e. look for a new home. But usually they ball up, e.g. on a limb, with the queen safely in the center, while a few go out to gather intelligence and mark the new home.
Oooh, bee talk… YAY!
Anyway, the bees bond with their queen via pheromones exchange while they chew her out of her candy prison. But sometimes, especially if colony and queen are not related, there’s a risk of supercedure, i.e. the bees kill their queen and raise another one asap. Sounds cute and straightforward but it’s a stressful time for bees and beekeper alike.
There’s a lot more theory (and beeking out) where that came from. The fun and games begin on my bee-day, 4/16, when my 2 bundles of collective joy arrive.
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@Lee wrote:
I’m still waiting for some idiot to work out a way that earthquakes can be caused on “global warming”. It’s responsible for everything else.
Danny Glover has:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2010/01/16/actor-danny-glover-blames-global-warming-earthquake-haitiI also heard the same argument after the recent earthquake in the Solomon Islands.
Yeah, the deer did not blink ;)
The deer was shot by a hunter who field-dressed (gutted) it (per some hygiene rules) and then gave it to our instructors who planted it in the woods. We went through all the motions except for the field-dressing.
Even though you may place an excellent shot, many times the deer still runs although technically it should be dead. That’s why you need to track it and that’s why often you will only see a drop or a few drops here and there. If you shoot and wait 15 – 30 min (the longest 15 – 30 min of your life), the deer will stop running, bed down and die. If you follow it right away, it may keep running (from you) and sometimes you don’t find it.
You poke its eyes because you want to prevent being gored or hooved to death should it come to life as you’re handling it.
Cheers.
haha. I TOLD DrDave I left the iron on but he just ignored me…
I was hanging out with a bunch of girlfriends when one of them got the inside scoop about the riot. We were trying to get a male cop friend of ours to take us to Burgin ‘to put out the riot’ but he said that while we were ‘gorgeous gunslingers’, he would most certainly not take us. :(
Only John Rambo would have done a better job:
Thanks, Stiv.
Let’s see if I can get this right on day # 2 of jungle training:
Chickens?
Another hiker
It’s getting junglier
Saw this in the middle of the woods. What is this??
You call this a ‘trail’?
The feast
Somebody left their pants and their plastic trash but it was the only place to sit
Sweat puddle DrDave left after our MRE picnic
We hiked 9 miles in near 90 degrees F and very high humidity. DrDave was 100% sweat-soaked. Bugs were drowning in his head sweat.
