Last Couple of Days

All grown up

Who knew baby birds went from being these tiny, baldish alien-like creatures, to cute little round bird-looking babies in about 2 days!  We had a nest right above the bedroom unit door, and were lucky enough to get to watch them grow (and get fed!). 

We went to a birthday celebration for Pancho and Estevan on Sunday.  Have you ever been to a birthday party that started at 9am? Yup, we were up bright and early, and eating chicherones (deep fried pig skin) by 10:30!  Pancho built a beautiful cabin for this guy, up above Monte Carlo, so we spent the day relaxing and visiting, and EATING.  I helped Rocio make green banana salad the day before, and chopped green bananas for 2 hours.  The salad takes a long time to make, and if you didn't know you would think it was some variation of potatoe or pasta salad, but it is DELICIOUS!  

Yogurt

We have made a couple of batches of yogurt from the cow's milk.  It's pretty easy to make, the only tricky part is getting it to cool slowly, so we have been putting it in a hot water bath, and wrapping it in about 5 towels.  It seems to work! Our compost adventure is ever continuing.  We didn't realize that we built the compost right where the water come barreling off the garden roof.  So, our hot compost is hot and SOAKED, way more wet than it should be.  We decided to move it to under the garden roof where it will be more protected.  It was SOOOO stinky to move.  

Isaac and Warren cut down some bamboo yesterday to build a fence around the garden that will hopefully keep the dogs out.  This morning Isaac and I re-dug some of the rain ditches along the house and chicken coop that had grown over.  Koda got a kick from Macho (the horse) on the way back from the river today.  Isaac actually caught it on film (because we were filming Macho line himself up with a Guyababa tree, and then walk backwards and smash it with his butt really hard, to get all the ripe fruit to fall - smart horse).  Koda acted like he broke his leg, and cried and cried, but he seems fine now.  Hopefully he learned something! 

Washing the dogs