Our Man in Antigua

what a sweet little shower last night and from the looks of the sky, there’s more a-comin’ and if this is Labor Day, I like it…town quiet/fairly peaceful and the usual screaming ambulance sirens on their way to the hospital in San Felipe aren’t…what kind of extra points do the patients inside get for the cobblestones and the tumulos?

It’s a week of departures for ‘seasonal’ crowd here..Gracie L, Ponzi Bob and Hap the D are at least three out this week, beating the ‘ol 90 day visa thing..Joe l goes out next week, for a short while, Jean-Marc said that Wendy Wever is comin’ back and the Man From Georgia hisself, Alabama Bob returns in a month from Sunday.

Why do the two Mayan ladies sit beside the doors of Pollo Compero and sell food? Why/where is the once-dreaded El Cepo? the Denver boot/front wheel clamp that spins off $300q a bite? long time no see and the double-parked cars….etc…I’ve heard/seen photos of the ‘New and Improved’ Travel Menu…very nicely re-down: tomorrow night for me..the rains last night and what appears to be full on torpor now have torpedoed me.

The American Legion is threatening to have a big ‘garage sale’ soon…left behind stuff, some good, some better than that..The Bavarian is rumored to be the site…und zo, mein herren und damen, it may just be the ‘real’ start of the rainy season and I’ve still got the umbrella from 3 years aga(somewhere)…’thought I had a decent (relative)piece of meat from Bodo last night: gave it fifty whacks each side with the rock hammer…nope..as chewy as my boot but I’ve diverted a small amount of  lime juice to the ‘beef in a bag’ as a marinade…can’t hurt, I figger or the  dogs can chew on it…and chew on it. This hasn’t been a 4 Star Culinary Week for me…first the pizza-flavored cardboard and now the south-bound end of a north-bound 4 legged animal of some kind. But (and a very BIG BUT)the blender works, there’s ice and ‘ingredients’ for whatever, either now or later..stay dry, dodge the puddles and, if nothing else, tomorrow’s Friday.