Turns out, even after burying the garrobo hole when he/she wasn't home, the problem of his/her existence wasn't eliminated. We had a pair of watermelon plants that made it through the initial onslaught of the garrobo only to be nibbled off a week later. Sounds like most things are going to grow inside now until they're old enough to stand on their own too feet.
A fence is also in the works to help defend the plans, but nothing has been finalized yet. It feels a little silly to sink fenceposts to surround a 2 square yard plot of land, but we'll see if we can't "engineer" something tico style.
In other news, we received our first piece of actual mail. Carol O'Loughlin is the winner for first piece actually delivered. And the successful address (the most important part for you guys taking notes at home, because this is how you can actually send stuff to us in the future):
800 oeste del cruce a Playa Avellanas
Villas San Francisco, Casa #16
Hernandez de Santa Cruz, Guanacaste
Costa Rica
For those of you who might have used other addresses, or who have sent stuff that hasn't yet arrived, we still hold out hope that it will make it through the maze of the costa rican mail system. If it shows up, nay... when it shows up, we'll be sure and let you know.
Only one more thing to report: we've been adopted. There's a family of angels here in costa rica that has taken it upon themselves to make sure that we don't get skinny during our time down here and every week they do their best to prevent our emaciation. They also give us some spanish lessons over dinner in exchange for some english lessons going back the other way. It's nice to have a local ma and pa.
That's about it for today, we mostly wanted to report on the winner of the mail race,
Hope everything is going well up north,
Team Wander
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Your adoption sounds ADORABLE. I expect pictures soon!
I'm also sorry to report that I've gone to the dark side...or rather the Carolina blue side. I got my acceptance letter in the mail yesterday! :D
Not going to tell us the total elapsed time from mailbox to mailbox?
and re: the garrobo, a nylon net suspended from strings at 3-4-foot separations should wobble enough to stop it from climbing in. They're reported to be good climbers that don't care for wobbly fences. almost any 5-foot piece of wood or stake could support the net, which should satisfy the tico requirement.
I trust there have been no more incidents involving hymenopteran stings.
Elapsed time mailbox to mailbox, only 2.5 weeks surprisingly enough. Thankfully no more stings so far, although we're finding more and more scorpions in our house as of late.
As for you Liza, I guess we'll forgive you for going to the dark side, although we're not happy about it. ;) You still better cheer for the Wolfpack when we return. Congratulations though!
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