by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Aug 15, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
June 13 Life in the jungle: It rained all morning. My allergies were at their worst and my cough was bad. It took some Jack ass bitters that I had picked last week. Last week Verna Mae showed me a jackass bitters plant. I harvested some leaves to dry out. The...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Aug 9, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
June 2 Life in the jungle: It rained and thundered hard last night with a power outage. Because I couldn’t run a fan during the power outage, I spent the first part of the night in my hammock. Things are all calm this morning but of course, I am drained of...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 28, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
May 28 Life in the jungle: It must have rained most of the night and into the morning. The road is drenched and it was a wet bike ride to the bus in the rain. I bussed it to Belize City and then caught a bus to the Agricultural Fair in Belmopan. There was only 1...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 25, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
May 22 Life in the jungle: I was expecting to wake up to heavy rain. It never came. I woke up and went down to my hammock and ended up sleeping until 10 AM. My day was spent completing my watermelon greenhouse framing and fastening the plastic wire mesh. I was...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 19, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
May 17 Life in the jungle: Because of how I felt last night before bed I didn’t set my alarm. While I don’t feel sick my allergies are really bad and it feels like I have a cold when I sneeze but I don’t think I do. When I finally got moving about,...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 11, 2023 | Life in Belize, My Blog
April 30 Life in the jungle: Because of my late-night last night I turned off my alarm. Nery called and woke me up at 6:45 AM this morning from my driveway. Usually, he showed up closer to 9 AM on the weekends to start work. The day became a pretty full day working...
