By Glen Bains If you’re having water trouble and can’t figure it out, here are a few extraordinary things you might check: Don’t assume tap water is good water for a pool. The typical hardness in tap water is as high as 1000 ppm — 700 ppm above the high
Read Moreby Jack Ewing Back in the late 1980s we still didn’t have telephones in the coastal communities, and we were just starting to do some bird watching and ecological tours at Hacienda Baru. The lodge didn’t exist yet. For booking the tours we shared an office with a travel agency
Read MoreBy Sarah Munro This is world class fishing, and the season is HOT. Hitting inshore on a daily basis are Red Snapper, Roosterfish, and Snook. Offshore, double hook-ups seem to be the norm for sailfish. SWEET! The marlin are hitting, just a bit more elusive than earlier in the year.
Read MoreARIES – March 21-April 19 Having had a taste of victory last month, this month may seem like the ideal opportunity to go wild. Kindling is always useful when lighting fires. However, metaphorical fires can be started using a baseball bat or a 2×4 plank. The words you use to
Read MoreBienvenidos/Welcome to our corner of Paradise…we are hopeful that we all survived another Semana Santa and are looking forward to a beautiful April..maybe we will begin to see a few rain showers as we are pretty dry and would welcome some green back into our lives…….if we are so lucky
Read MoreBy Glen Bains Minerals and other substances find their way into every pool. Iron, calcium and copper exist naturally in source water, and can be prevalent in well water. While other materials can stain plaster and vinyl just as easily – sources include organic matter such as leaves, and excessive
Read MoreBy Jim Parisi Inspiration comes in a variety of shapes and sizes, in a plethora of locations, at any given time of the day; Jerry Garcia once said it happens “in the strangest of places, if you look at it right”. For Bolivian musician Cristobal Colon, it came as he
Read MoreBy Jack Ewing Back in the 1970s Diane and the kids and I lived in the casona, the old Hacienda Baru home. We didn’t get around to digging a well until the early 1980s, and every year, the free flowing spring that supplied our water would dry up in mid
Read MoreCorrija las siguientes oraciones usando el adjetivo posesivo correcto. Luisa tiene un salón muy grande. Su salón es grande. Esta es la casa suyas. _______________________________________________________ Aquel es nuestro hija. _______________________________________________________ Vamos a nuestra casa (de nosotros). _______________________________________________________
Read MoreBy Nancy Buchan There’s a generosity of spirit – a musical selflessness – that sets some musicians apart from their equally skilled fellow musicians. They have an uncanny ability to affect people emotionally through their playing or singing, and this is why we turn to music in the first place
Read MoreWe moved the Rescue Center out to our Wildlife Sanctuary on March 15th, 2013. Please print this and keep it handy in case you find a wild animal that is abandoned, hurt, or injured. Abandoned baby animal: Be sure the mother is not nearby or out getting food for the baby.
Read MoreBy Mark Goldstein This March, our pose of the month here at PranaVida wellness is the Headstand. If there are two things that we all did far more as children, they had to have been somersaults and headstands. This month I’d like to offer to all of you the opportunity
Read MoreBy Shelagh Duncan We love our homes, we want them to be stylish and comfortable, chic and cosy. We love our pets too and as they are very much a part of our lives we incorporate things into our homes to make them more comfortable as well with pet doors,
Read MoreBy Paul Rees (Serves 2) Chicken Ingredients: 2 boneless chicken breasts with tenders, fat, & skin removed, lightly score both sides with 2 or 3 shallow cuts 1 Tbs olive oil ¼ tsp balsamic vinegar 1 large clove garlic, minced ¼ tsp each dried thyme, rosemary, & oreganoPinch paprika salt
Read MoreBy Os Hola amigos. ¿How is everything going on? This is the third and last article of this series. So let me ask you this question again: Guys: ¿Do you know how to make a Wh. question in inglés? ¿Do you start the question with an action word (verb), with
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