by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Dec 10, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
October 24 Life in the jungle: I started my morning by basically sending my paralegal one last threat about producing my corporation papers and my deeds. The business registry office is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays. I told him I was going to Belmopan on Thursday...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Dec 4, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
October 16 Life in the Jungle: I didn’t sleep great last night. I woke up this morning determined to stick to a Sabbath habit I started last Sunday. I started reading The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard. The book has been referenced many times in podcasts...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Dec 4, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
Sorry, almost no photos with this blog post. October 9 Life in the Jungle: It’s Sunday (of course). I was all prepared to head to the ponds to chop. Over the last few months, I have struggled with what a Sabbath is supposed to look like for me. In many ways,...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Nov 19, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
October 4 Life in the Jungle: Waiting for a load of gravel to be delivered I planted seedlings in the coconut field. Saul from the village brought me a yard of gravel from the hardware store. He also brought me some lumber for my next hen house. The yard of gravel...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Nov 17, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
September 30 Life in the Jungle: It’s amazing how I was so exhausted to do anything yesterday but it took so long to fall asleep last night. I don’t know what the temperature was last night but for the very first time since sleeping in a hammock, I needed...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Nov 17, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
September 21 Life in the Jungle: I finally finished the hen house pen. I let out the hen with the oldest chicks to make sure everything would work out well. And everything did. So tomorrow both hens and chicks get to come out of the hen house. Today was Belize...