by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Oct 7, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
August 9 Life in the jungle: Orlando and Joseph showed up this morning. We replaced the larger section of the house roof with the new zinc roofing that was delivered the other week. We got lucky with no rain all day. After they left, I cleaned everything up and...
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. ...
