Meanwhile back on the ranch
Shopping in a hardware store in Costa Rica goes like this. You walk in the store past the security guard nodding hello. Easy enough. Next, you choose your items for me, that day, a leaf rake, a couple of hose clamps, a small bag of number five nails, and two bags of cement mix. Cement-mix is what we call ready-mix or quick-crete. You stand in line awaiting a spot at four different computer checkin places items in hand except for the cement mix.
The items are recorded on a computer, your name is taken and off you go to the pay station on the other side of the store minus items. There you might wait in line again for one of the two cashiers. Once at the window you state your name the price is given and you pay cash or credit card. With a couple of receipts in hand, you walk around the corner to a countertop where another employee greets you, examines your receipt, and hands you your purchases. In my case, I put the purchased items in the car then with the cement-mix receipt in hand drove out to the big open warehouse, found an employee to locate my items, and loaded them into the back of my vehicle. I then followed the employee to another little station where my cementmix receipt is stamped and I am free to go.
Meanwhile back on the ranch, the Little River Golf Course, Dan Barrett playing with his cousinin-law Dan Hunt from South Dakota last Friday eagled hole number five. The eagle was witnessed by two doctors Peter Barg and Charlie Jenkins who were near the green. Dan bounced in the eagle from 74 yards out using his gap wedge. Dan wasn’t finished. Coming around the horn, hole fourteen on the back nine, Dan birdied it. Congratulations Dan hope your cousin-in-law was impressed. Down here I’ve been practicing my swing hitting some green and yellow quava’s with a trusty sand wedge I keep handy. No eagles or birdies yet not even a Toucan.
Sitting on the sala, (porch), this blue-sky morning I see a pile of leaves where yesterday stood a giant bamboo structure. A mistake. We planted it several years ago and it took over the landscape, the skyscape, and the view. We needed to have it removed. Our