Sheba hasn’t been eating properly for several months. She seemed fine and we just thought she was being finicky. We changed foods, and she ate for a while, then got finicky again.
When we were gone to Costa Rica, she pretty much quit eating entirely. The housesitters told us she wasn’t eating.
When we got home, she wasn’t eating at all. Wife made her chicken and rice but she barely touched it, and she definitely didn’t feel good. She was obviously weak and didn’t look good. Pain was in her face, and her ears were trembling.
The day after we got home she vomited blood. A lot of blood. Now she’s in the hospital, undergoing tests. I think it’s the damn pills she was taking for her hips. The same vet gave Ditto the same pills for his hips and he started puking blood (and pooping blood) almost immediately.
Today we’ll find out what the (different) vet says.
Gonna see if I can get the scooter started this morning. Traffic was bad coming home yesterday. Super bad.
We got home ok around noontime Saturday. The house was in good order. I don’t think Lenny remembered me. He shied away for the first hour or so. Ashy seemed to be on a new daily routine, and I’m getting her back on the old daily routine. Sheba is quite sick. Vomited blood and pooping blood from this pain medicine for her hip. The same vets gave the same medicine to Ditto and it did the same thing. I am quite unhappy with these veterinarians, but the wife thinks they’re the greatest. Sheba’s off the medicine and is rapidly improving.
The yard doesn’t even need mowing, because it barely rained the whole time we were gone.
Sooooo it’s back to work today. I’m actually looking forward to it. That’ll probably change once I get there. I don’y know about you, but when someone else goes on vacation, my workload goes up, covering for them. When I go on vacation, nobody covers for me. I have double work catch-up. Like punishment for taking vacation.
I sound negative, but dont feel negative, I look at it as job security.
I got Costa Rican chocolate bars for my co-workers, and a bag of coffee for HRM, Her Royal Majesty, the Human Rescources Manager.
I haven’t started my van or scooter in almost three weeks, it’s a van day today, and I expect it to start ok, but the scooter is hard to start, even after just a weekend.
We’re not in Costa Rica anymore. The coffee’s terrible. We must be in the US, because there’s no WiFi. To be fair, the hotel we’re at has WiFi, but it doesn’t work. I’m tyhping this on my word processor, to cut and paste later, when there’s an internet connection. We went out shopping last night at Target. Bought some stuff we needed, and a lot of stuff that we didn’t. Then we went to eat at Boston Market. It was my first time at a Boston Market. Not bad, not what I expected, but not bad.
We’re staying at the Morrison Hotel. Dania Beach Florida. USA, Planet Earth.
Morrison Hotel. Not bad
This morning, I was taking a shower and there was a power failure. In the dark silence, I heard a generator starting up, and I figured 15 seconds till it kicked in. Sure enough, 15 seconds and the lights came on. I finished my shower and headed to the lobby for coffee. I got on the elevator, and the door wouldnt close. I noticed the LED display that tells you the floor said “Out Of Service”. I got off, and the power went off again, as it switched from generator to city power. I pondered being stuck in an elevator for a few moments before I got back on, and punched the lobby button of the now normally functioning elevator, and got my two cups. The power failure is probably why the WiFi isnt working.
Also a first, I’m sitting at a proper desk typing, instead of leaning back on a chair with my keyboard in my lap. We’re in the Morrison Hotel in Ft Lauderdale Florida. Good showers. This morning, in about two hours, we head back to the Ft Lauderdale airport and back home to Cayman! In Cayman they have good coffee, good showers and WiFi that usually works. Still no WiFi, “Cannot Obtain IP Address”. I’ll probably be at the airport before I can post this.
LATER: Now I’m at the airport, we’re considerably early, which is OK by me. There was a guy who apparently was flying on an airplane for the first time. He was prompted by the security agent to remove the items from his pockets, one pocket at a time. Wad of cash from each pocket, handkerchiefs and his wallet. Took him forever. Then I had to go through barefoot, and came through with sticky feet. I went to the private family bathroom, and sat on the counter and washed my feet and flip flops with soap and water, ad dried them off with a lot of paper towels. Better than ruining a pair of socks.
So, we’re sitting here. I’m ready to get home. Have a great day!
We had a good trip from Puerto Viejo to Alajuela yesterday. We stopped at the Sloth Sanctuary on the way. It was quite interesting. Below are a few pics.
We did half of the two hour tour. The second half was out on canoes on a river, and we had traveling to do!
Today is our last full cay in Costa Rica. We’ve been gone three Thursdays, three Fridays and two weeks. Seems like it’s been a long trip right now, but it flew by. Tomorrow morning we turn in the rental car and fly to Ft. Lauderdale. Saturday morning we head home.
Today, we’ll be runnin’ like crazy I rekkon, I want to get some coffee to take home, and the wife has a schedule.
Below are shipwrecks we’ve seen in the past two days, here in Puerto Viejo
This looks like it was a raw material carrier, on the front is a built in hydraulic shovel. It is visible from Google Maps.
If you look for Playa Manzanillo on Google Earth, you can find it.
This is a poor ‘ol sailboat that looks like it hasn’t been there too long.
This barge has a tree growing out of it. If you search Puerto Viejo images, you’ll see pics of this. This barge was here when my wife was last here, 20 years ago.
Today we leave the rainforest and head back to Alejuela. in 100 hours, we’ll be home in Cayman.
The rainforest has been nice. I am one who doesn’t really like rain, but here, it has been very pleasant. I can’t put my finger on the quality that makes it nice, but it is. Maybe because when it rains, it really rains, none of this drizzle, not-really-raining, you don’t need a raincoat, but the day is ruined, type rain that is so common. I was thinking, I wish it rained really hard every night in Cayman like it does here, and was sunny in the days.
Last night the wife and I had dinner in a beautiful restaurant located about 60 meters off the main road, down a bumpy, rocky lane near the town of Playa Cocles. Ultra-fine dining in the rainforest. Perfect in every aspect. I had the lomito (filet mignon). It came with beets, carrots, potatoes (with cheese) and an excellent salad. Dessert was chocolate lava cake with incredibly good banana ice cream.
Quite possibly, the best meal I’ve ever had. Every component was superior. The service was exceptional. When we arrived the waitress took us to our table and lit a new candle, like we were the first people to sit there. We were well watched over, and if we needed anything, it was delivered instantaneously.
I can’t say enough good, or how impressed my wife and I were with this restaurant. Don’t miss a chance to dine here!
Yesterday we arrived in Puerto Viejo, on the southern Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. My first time in the Costa Rican Caribbean! It is different than Cayman Caribbean. More rain, the jungle-ish vegetation goes almost right up to the waters edge.
View from our room, including the Wife!View to the west, from our beach.Pink boxes show our two beach visits.
We drove through heavy rainforest to get here, through a National Park, with an impressive tunnel that I didn’t get a picture of.
Coming out of the rainforest mountain.
we stopped for coffee at a roadside bar/restaurant that I thought was really cool. This is the view of the cooking area from the cash register.
The rest of the place was cool too, big open area with tables and hammocks. Even a pool table and two foosball tables!
We arrived before check in time and we went walking in town a little, The wife bought a dress, which she’s wearing in the first picture, and Travlin’ Tim fell in love with a mini mannequin that was selling necklaces! Travlin’ Tim loves boobies!
It rains a lot here, but today is supposed to be cloucy and hot too much rain. But it’s raining really hard now, but somehow, I don’t seem to mind.
