by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
February 4 Life in the jungle: After doing laundry, first thing Heath and I biked 20 km’s to Rancho Delores to visit the farm Nery has worked at for the last 20 years. They grow like 9 types of bamboo. The bamboo is grown mostly for furniture but they...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 26 Life in the jungle: With Nery coming this afternoon to look at my fencing project my priority was cleaning my last fence line on my home property that runs along the road. I got a good section cleaned up but it is slow going with cleaning out the spiny...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | My Blog, Personal Reflection
A while back, I believe sometime in 2016 I realized that I was not a very happy person and that I was a very lonely person. And for the first time I actually questioned that and asked myself if this was how I wanted to live the rest of my life. I realized that my...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 21 Life in the jungle: I started my morning continuing and hoping to finish digging my waterline trench. I did get a pleasant surprise when I dug up a Mexican Burrowing Narrow-mouthed toad. And I did not get far into my morning when it started to pour rain. ...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 15 Life in the jungle: I was pretty productive most of the day. I went into the bush and checked and found along my one property line for on old PVC pipe waterline and an electric wire that was used to run a water pump when we pumped water from one of the...
by Arie Hoogerbrugge | Jul 12, 2022 | Life in Belize, My Blog
January 9 Life in the jungle: Because of how rough our road is getting, Derrick had to walk down our road. Derrick came to install the plycem (plywood/cement mix wall boards) on my basement storage rooms. I should mention Wayne (the other Belizean living on the...
