Friday, July 8, 2011

New Blog Site

Please visit me at http://movedtocostarica.wordpress.com. Google Blogger does not work anymore and I can not access it from my computer for some reason. A lot of other people are having the same issue, but it seems like Google is not responding so I started a new BLOG, one that works!

Thanks.......... See you on the other side!

Friday, July 1, 2011

Trying something new

Over the past year I have been using Windows Live Writer to upload my blogs. The only problem is that it does not work very well. I usually have to restart it about 5 or 6 times before I can upload my article. It is a real pain to use. All of the "Help" that Microsoft offers is well, you know, not w orth the effort to look it up, as it seems it is always your fault and never Microsofts. I googled blog client and came across this one, Zoundry Raven which is a free open source software.


So I will put this thru its paces to see how it works or doesn't.



As they say, down the hatch.

July Day

Well I guess there is no such thing as July Day, maybe Canada Day since it is their birthday today.  This month marks our first year without working (for the mon).  We have done a lot of work since we have moved down here, for sure, but all has been on and around the house trying to make it work just a little bit better.

Over the past month we had a visit from my oldest daughter and granddaughter for a week.  A week sometimes is too short, especially since a couple of those days are spent traveling to and from San Jose.  Almost all of the flights back to the US are at the crack of dawn and there is no way to get there except by spending the night in San Jose.  A small draw back to live on the Carib.  No way do I drive the roads without it being light out (a 12 hour window).  We still had a great time, but miss them both.

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June was a very dry month, only six inches of rain.  Not exactly what you would expect in a rainforest.  The other good news is we only had one report crime all month.  You can tell that it is not tourist season now, not sure why the weather has been perfect.

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