Denise Hanna
Hi, You may or may not remember the joy that came with our purchase of a General Master semi-automatic clothes washing machine a couple of years ago. Suffice it to say that the General Master has been a continuing, if not enduring, source of pleasure in our simplified lives. It provides just the right amount […]
…and he seems to be living there, or maybe in the broiler, I’m not sure. Unlike his amphibian colleague from last year, this fellow is relatively innocuous although, like the frog, he is of a substantial size. He comes out in the dark to hunt moths and other dainties but otherwise keeps mostly to himself […]
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Hi, Denise and I are looking over the list of things to do before closing up here in Las Galeras and returning to the US in a couple of weeks. It’s a long list. Not surprisingly, we’ve a few things to do that are completely foreign to the counterpart list that we use when we […]
…is good news, I suppose. We just plug slowly away: paint a little, gaze out at the ocean a little, cook a bit, read some, prune a bush and then before you know it, it’s time for a hand of cards and then off to bed. None of this has gotten old, excepting maybe the […]
Hi, Make no mistake about it, once you leave this little village everything takes a full day. Go to the bank in Samana or for a Spanish lesson and by the time you stop for lunch the day is gone. Or go to Las Terrenas for lumber, or paint or groceries at the Supermercado Lindo […]