Each Day is Different, Today was no Exception–Saturday 5 May 2018


Didn’t have a clue it was Cinco de Mayo until I typed yesterday’s date in the title. Here May 1 was the big holiday. It was their Labor Day. And also when most of the world celebrates labor day.


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When you are the King of Birds (just ask one) you shout it out. No wonder we get so many laughs from the grackles that frequent our backyard at Retama.


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Money changer. Reputation for them is everything.


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Market food.


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No matter how crowded the market, there is always room for more.


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Kids are the same everywhere.


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Street scene. Love the padding under the harness.


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Sidewalk scene. You soon get used to it, holes happen.


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Why there are so few pull tabs laying around in Nicaragua.


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Visit to a hammock workshop. The weaving is done by the blind and gives them a job opportunity they would otherwise never have.


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Pedal powered blender.


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Bell Tower Babe. The circular stairway to climb to the top of the tower almost did me in, but I made it. Unless you have a abject fear of them you wouldn’t understand. Brave Bob.


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Trade school students from the countryside learning to be hairdressers so they can have the chance to improve their lives.


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Dana getting his hair cut. The clippers were barely working, the scissors dull and a mirror was nonexistent.


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After a shopping trip, Dana giving the instructor the tools of the craft to allow the students to do even better. Awesome Dana.


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Checking out the new clippers. All people want is an opportunity to better their lives.


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More tab top jewelry.


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Birds.


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Island home of an American family.


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What’s not to like about Nicaragua? Being here is totally different than finding out about on the news back home.


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Life is indeed good.

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