Great Brasilian Movies

Yes, I know, this blog theoretically is about living here in Potrerillos, but no matter how happy I am here, I will never stop feeling connected to Brasil.  So, this morning while surfing news reports, I happened to see that Dawn Marpessa, who played Eurydice in the original 1959 classic Orféu Negro–Black Orpheus–died of a [...]

August’s Rain Data is Complete

Monday we visited the Espinosas and scanned all of Ricardo’s rain data for 16 years.  So we now have the daily amounts as well as the monthly summaries.  I intend to put them up as PDF files, but they need some work right now.
Meantime, we have August’s total–38″.
Also, it’ll take some effort to update the [...]

Equipment Rescue

It had to happen–it’s that time of year when we can’t afford to have either the weed eater or the lawn mower out of commission.  So, naturally, both of them went out of commission at the same time.
There is a bracket that attaches the fuel tank to the body of the motor on the lawn [...]