CAROL'S VISIT
La Guardia, Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, 15 April 2007
Carol, our landlady, has just left today after a ten-day visit. In addition to having a vacation from her therapist job up in Portland, Oregon, she wanted to get the house ready for the new tenants. The latest news is that we are leaving here about 21 May for Ecuador. A retired couple named Stuart and Diane have rented the place for initially one year and will move down from new Mexico at the beginning of June.
Carol, who is a non-stop worker, was putting things into shape. Not even the heavy head and chest cold that I passed on to her seemed to slow her down really. One of the house improvements was the purchase of a good used automatic washing machine. It is tock-tocking away in the utility room off the patio as I write. For some reason, the water pipes to the utility room do not work. But it is a cinch to run the garden hose over from the tap next to the outdoor shower. What a convenience!
Carol got a number of things repaired and we made a monumental trip to the garden centre to buy more pots and plants for the patio. (Here's a picture of St. Carol of the Flowers seated in the back seat of the car and surrounded by plants.) We still need to buy more potting earth (the earth around here is pure sand) and to fill up the unglazed, hand-made earthenware pots that she bought with Jens up in the hills at La Cercado, the pottery village. They were no more expensive than machine-made pots but look so much more interesting. By the time we leave here we won’t want to abandon our “garden”.
Carol, our landlady, has just left today after a ten-day visit. In addition to having a vacation from her therapist job up in Portland, Oregon, she wanted to get the house ready for the new tenants. The latest news is that we are leaving here about 21 May for Ecuador. A retired couple named Stuart and Diane have rented the place for initially one year and will move down from new Mexico at the beginning of June.
Carol, who is a non-stop worker, was putting things into shape. Not even the heavy head and chest cold that I passed on to her seemed to slow her down really. One of the house improvements was the purchase of a good used automatic washing machine. It is tock-tocking away in the utility room off the patio as I write. For some reason, the water pipes to the utility room do not work. But it is a cinch to run the garden hose over from the tap next to the outdoor shower. What a convenience!
Carol got a number of things repaired and we made a monumental trip to the garden centre to buy more pots and plants for the patio. (Here's a picture of St. Carol of the Flowers seated in the back seat of the car and surrounded by plants.) We still need to buy more potting earth (the earth around here is pure sand) and to fill up the unglazed, hand-made earthenware pots that she bought with Jens up in the hills at La Cercado, the pottery village. They were no more expensive than machine-made pots but look so much more interesting. By the time we leave here we won’t want to abandon our “garden”.
posted by rjb @ Friday, April 20, 2007
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