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Life has continued much the same as last month, a pleasant routine with lovely surroundings.
We are still enjoying living in this Casa, our life is very quiet. Our regular activity is going for a walk across the bridge or such every other day, when it’s not too hot.
Then doing our Duolingo daily, yes, learning Spanish, shopping once a week, checking on the Aeeshah boat work, I do my sewing.
My main sewing project is making a cover for the bow area of Aeeshah. It’s challenging at 16feet by 15feet, and tapered to fit, just sewing the seams require both of us, John, to hold the material while I work the machine. The Casa has been wonderful for this work as we have had the necessary space.
Aeeshah’s facelift
The boat work is progressing well.
The crew have now completed the topside, the sides and the stripes. This entailed having to take the decks down to its bare fiberglass,
then applying gel-coat, again sanding,
applying further coats, and sanding over again many times.
Next taping up and applying the non-skid.
After which was the stripping of the sides and stern,
sanding and taking it down to just the bare fiberglass.
When ready they applied the coats of Algrip paint.
The finish was amazing and they haven’t even polished yet!
Next the stripes were taped, prepared and sprayed.
And voila!
Their work is amazing, they sing and laugh all while doing the most incredible job.
There continues to be very little work available, so the guys are not raced to finish and are able to a spectacular job. However when folks finally are able to return, I’m guessing the place will be crazy busy as it normally is.
The differing/contrasting lives around us
Everywhere we walk we see the average, friendly local, hard at work, making a living. Then we see the many large, power boats, of all types and sizes, stored at Ram. They are used by their wealthy owners who live and work in or near the city, but usually, only for a weekend every once and while when they travel down to the rio. Some of these boats have a crew who are just employed to continually polish and clean.
Oh and the owners fly in on private jets, planes and helicopters or drive in, in fleets of usually black SUVs with blackened windows, they are packed with everything from bunches of roses to crates of vino, their employees see to everything menial. Same with the houses here, like the one we are staying in, they are just weekend play places for the very wealthy.
Of course ours is comparatively small and moderate, as it’s one the owner’s extra houses, most of the places like the main house are quite awesome places.
Our walks
Our walks were once again, down the Ram driveway, along the main road, over the bridge and back again.
We also did the Castillo walk, leaving Fronteras, along the El Estor road as far as the turning to the Castillo, around that loop and back. This walk is much longer, but has quite a bit of shade due to the lovely trees along the roadside.
We pass a coca/chocolate farm where we see the different stages of the cocca growth. Passing also other agricultural land and through the small neighbour hood by the fort.
One Sunday we went again on the pipe-line walk.
We were told that it was again open to us gringos, as the locals living in that area had shut it to all us folks due to the virus. It was again a lovely walk, but both John and I picked up a strange vibe from the few locals we passed, so we haven’t been again.
Social activités are limited, but….
Don and Pam visited again, at the beginning of September and then at the end. We enjoyed fun, relaxing weekends.
We went for lunch with a group of Catamaran friends at a restaurant across the river near to our Cassa. It was a very pleasant break from our routine.
Ended up being a full afternoon out catching up with nearly the whole gang. Soon after one couple came down with covid 19, I think we all were worried that we had picked it up there. However, that was not the case. They only had a mild case and are now out of quarantine and gradually getting back to normal.
We have had several friends visit us and have continued to enjoy the evening sunsets.
There have been some crazy light shows at night. The lightening above the distant mountains has been spectacular and some of the thunderstorms are absolutely akin to atomic blasts from the sky.
We were notified via our agent that the landlady – jefa – wanted our Cassa vacated, ASAP was what she first said, no reason had been given. Our agent negotiated for us to stay until October 15th, but after discussion we decided to find another place for October 1st.
I will miss the giant otter,
the wonderful birds
that lived around us, the exquisite sunsets and the space of the cassa.
Punta Bonito was our choice. It is a small marina which also rents out a few apartments. It seemed very peaceful and quiet, if you ignore the traffic on the bridge. A very pretty place tucked away in the jungle. It was time for a change….us folks do not stay in one place too long we are wanderers.
