by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Sep 24, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
August 1 Life in the jungle: Over two months ago I got sick. This morning I had another cough attack. Everything is pretty wet outside. There is no point in working outside today. Everything will turn to mud quickly. I started writing Chapter 1 of my new book...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Sep 24, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
July 27 Life in the jungle: In four days it will be two months ago that I got sick with a chronic cough and the coughing returned again last night. Another sleepless night. This morning I was up early to head back to Belmopan. [Last week I discovered that likely...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Sep 11, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
July 21 Life in the jungle: Somehow my morning got away from me again! But it didn’t help that I slept like crap last night either. I did wake up to a reply from the Labor Department regarding my work permit, but it wasn’t really helpful. It’s...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Sep 5, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
July 15 Life in the jungle: I slept in as planned. Today I made two trips to the village. The first one to pick up my cans of paint that I had left at Verna Mae’s the other week and the second trip was for groceries. After lunch, I was going to head to the ponds to...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Sep 5, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
July 10 Life in the jungle: I ended up sleeping in from a late-night last night. I started my day at the ponds to plant papaya seeds. Twice I dropped the container of seeds. TWICE! I couldn’t believe it. Little black seeds dropped in the dirt. Good grief. ...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Aug 27, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
July 3 Life in the jungle: It’s Sunday so it wasn’t my most productive day. With a late start to my day, I retrieved some more 1/2″ PVC pipe that had previously been laid and buried out towards the ponds past the coconut field. I’ll need the...