Lately the pond and waterlilies next to the showroom and workshop have been looking especially nice. We’ve got botanical labels on a lot of things now too. There are some lovely things to see; some interesting medicinal plants, rare wood trees, some very unusual things to taste, and my favorite, lovely things to smell. There’s [...]
This green frog has been on the kitchen window all day – hasn’t moved an inch. We can’t find him in the Costa Rica herpetology books – anyone know what he is? From the other side of the glass you can see his belly – any even his toes. How did he get up above [...]
Taken from our roof. See what we have to put up with here? I think there was an inversion over San Jose.
Barry turned for the television crews, and he and Minor Loaiza did interviews for the cameras. It was for the Costa Rican Channel 6 morning magazine program “Giros.”
Anyone want to guess what year this 4.5 inch square spike got hammered into the cocobolo tree? The tree kept grew another 1.25″ inches in diameter after it happened, and the bark healed over. No, sorry, can’t use growth rings to figure it out because tropical woods don’t have pronounced growth rings.
In 1999 the sawdust pile caught fire, and we couldn’t put it out. We emptied out our water tank on it; no luck. We hired a water transport truck and dumped that on it – three times. Finally we hired a backhoe and had it move the sawdust around while we poured water on. That did the trick. Took four days total.
Woodturning in Costa Rica