Archive for 'Cool stuff'
San Pedro Social Club
Posted on August 13, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life, Useful information
Tonight was a first for me at one of the well known San Pedro Social Clubs – Wine de Vine on a Friday night. Ann had suggested it would be a good spot to meet up with Susan Carter managing editor of Caribbean Property and Lifestyles Magazine – this is a great site to [...]
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Mass Catwalk
Posted on August 11, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life
Did the mass Cat Walk yesterday afternoon off Bowen & Bowen dock. It was nice to do something different – walking the red carpet fully clothed off the dock was a great way to shake things up a bit. The kids loved it and could not get enough of walking the red carpet in various [...]
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Minor repairs
Posted on July 16, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life, Useful information
The M key on my computer was behaving badly since yesterday. I did not want to try and pop it off in case it broke so I got out my tools and used a very thin crochet hook [used to be my dads and maybe his mom's] to lift the button and then used a [...]
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Posting Sunday on Monday
Posted on July 12, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life, Useful information
I was trying to find coast to coast am weekend edition and end up listening to a talk radio show about Big wave surfing with Laird Hamilton. His book Force of Nature is about the surfer’s philosophy on life and a revelation of his extreme health-oriented lifestyle. I came in at the tail end of [...]
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Taste of Playa
Posted on June 25, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life, Useful information
6:30am I am starting my day off listening to the rain and tackling the long standing task of going through old emails and updating the school blog. What a can of worms to work in blogger after using wordpress so long.
9:33am got 15 or so new posts up on Holy Cross school blog and I [...]
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San Pedro Lobsterfest Block Party 2010
Posted on June 19, 2010 in Cool stuff, Fiesta, Island Life
Just a quick note back dated from June 11th – 3 days before Joey and Crew Arrive. It feels like we are steamrolling fast towards the big block party. There is so much to do - as Tim Gun always tells the designers on Project Runway - “Make it Work” and I know somehow we [...]
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Countdown is on
Posted on June 13, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life
The count down is on – about 5 h till they land in San Pedro. In the midst of all this planning and gearing up for lobsterfest I realized that our stash of bags we keep for hurricane season got wet due to leaky closet so all the giant zip locks space bags heavy duty [...]
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Belize Bird Facts
Posted on May 31, 2010 in Cool stuff, Guest Contributors, Island Life, Useful information
Flash back to last night – at the beach yesterday Cindy asked if I was having a day off and I said yes I think I can actually do it and – just manage minor work I did earlier. I spoke too soon – a random email I got form someone looking for Paul to [...]
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They Came Back
Posted on May 27, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life, Useful information, Water Fun
Feeling a bit lazy this morning so I am quite happy to have scored a ride to the pool with Cindy. She just rang and said she would be a few minutes late as she was at the beach and that if I wanted to be on time I could go on ahead – I [...]
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Toga Party
Posted on May 23, 2010 in Cool stuff, Fiesta, Island Life
Getting crafty this aft since I do not have a sewing machine so it was my travel iron and packing tape to hem my fabric. Now I am just trying to work out the best way to make it fit and keep it from falling off. According to How to make a toga [...]
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Work In Process
Posted on April 30, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life
It’s a bit of a blustery day – overcast but no rain so far. I decided to take my bike around the corner to get fixed before going to the pool this morning. As I was walking over there the chain came off which I thought may be a bit of an issue as the [...]
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New tacogirl Special – Belize Flight Deals
Posted on January 29, 2010 in Cool stuff, Island Life, Travel, Useful information, tacogirl Specials
Inspired by Belize Picture Of The Day who is running a series of old Ambergris Caye photographs – I set to to work today with a walk down memory lane on the long standing task of checking back through old posts. The first one had tacoboy and I laughing as we remembered this particular shopping [...]
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Tropical spa
Posted on July 16, 2009 in Cool stuff, Island Life, Useful information
Wind came out of no where and brought a fast and furious rain shower with it - lasted all of about 5 minutes if that. Now the sun is coming back out which is great cause Mitch Vicky and I are headed to see Carole and Zac at Las Terrazas this morning and check put [...]
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Total write off
Posted on June 6, 2009 in Cool stuff, Island Life
Today was a total write off in so many ways spent most of the morning and a good part of the afternoon trying to stop feeling sick after getting pedro’d last night.
Internet was down for a good chunk of time so had to wait till this evening to finish uploading pics.
Chatting Monel Lara and Jo [...]
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Time to prepare
Posted on May 25, 2009 in Cool stuff, Hurricane, Island Life, Useful information
It coming around to hurricane season again so I have started to get all my bits and pieces in order. I made my own first aid kit and used a plastic container that sheets come in to put all the stuff. Although my kit is not complete it is a decent start – I will [...]
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Blog Fiesta Schedule
Posted on May 19, 2009 in Cool stuff, Island Life, Useful information
I came back today to edit this post and fix the pictures and somehow I lost all the text about the schedule. At this point in time my head is so full I cannot find where that info is stored so it may or may not make it back up ha ha.
Schedule of events [...]
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Belize Please photo contest Winners
Posted on March 16, 2009 in Contests, Cool stuff, Island Life, Useful information
Shout out to everyone that entered Belize Please photo contest 2009 and made it a big success. I would also like to thank my judges Maya Ruthie and Beth as well as the local businesses who donated prizes… Pedro’s Pizza – Tropic Air – Lime Bar & Grill – San Pedro Fitness Club – CG [...]
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