Our turn for earthquake

Doing fine other then being woken up. Well time to go back to bed.

Been a while

Well it has been a longggggggggggggggg time since I posted. Well sorry about that.

Well we are doing well, our summer is coming to an end...:( but that means my friends up north will be happy. You guys have certainly had a long winter.

Hmm..whats new..?
Well we have a new puppy.. her name is Abby. We sort of got Abby as a surprise Christmas present. We were coming home from Christmas Eve service and there was poor Abby. She had been dumped at the bus stop. We couldn't leave her there to get hit by a car, as several times she was headed for the street.

We are not sure if we are going to keep her, as we are looking for her to get adopted, but till then....

Here are some pictures of her

 Abby's first bath. Gee you should of heard the howling, you would of thought that someone was killing her.

 Who is the black sheep of the family? I just happen to have a darker complexion and my hair is straighter. And my ears are little big.

Abby seems to be a hit in the neighborhood. All the kids come and get her and take her to go play. Hmm, maybe we should rent her out, laugh.

Well have a good day and I will try to post more frequent.

Chile wins, advances to 2014 World Cup in Brazil

Chile wins over Ecuador, 2 - 1 and advances to 2014 World Cup in Brazil

Teaching new Chilean drivers

We were at the mall, Alto Las Condes and saw some of the future Chilean drivers:

Can I see you license? 

Whoa buddy! !

Opps sign jumo out in front of me.

Shopping

Well yesterday was shopping day for vegetables..
We go to the local outdoor market every two weeks or so for our fresh vegetables. It is cheaper to go there then the Jumbo and the quality is just as good.
The weather was beautiful, especially compared to today. It was warm and sunny and to day is overcast and raining.

Here are some pictures

Time for lunch..I am hungry

These are empanadas. Sure was good had one and saved two that we'll freeze for latter.

Well take care and see you later.

Chow

1st time teaching English via Skype

Well I have been working with a local company in Santiago to update leads list for Pharmaceutical Companies to offer teaching English.

I can't believe the number of companies here in Chile. It is hard to track sometimes due to mergers of companies. Sometimes the name is the same others times they may be come a subsidiary. So this is still in process, but I had the opportunity to teach a person who is a psychologist.

It was kind of scary, but was fun as we both learned about each other and other topics. I had some help from the person I work for as this was my first time. So we shall see how this goes.

Have a great weekend

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4^th of july

Well Happy 4th of July to all our family and friends in  the US. It will be a laid back day for us, here in Chile. The weather has become much cooler and we have snow in the mountains.

We may have some friends come over and will have a picnic (inside of course) of hot dogs,chips and barbecue chicken. 

Well take care and be safe. 

God watches over dumb people.....

Well as the title says, God watches over us dumb people. I was going to pay our bills today, as Susan is heading for Miami today for a conference.  Well anyway, I got to Jumbo and was getting in line and I reached in my pocket for the bills......oh no.... I couldn't find them. Had I forgotten them at home? I didn't think so... so I backed tracked my way home. I found them in the middle of the road, I guess they had fallen out. Thank God I had found them because my Spanish is not good enough to pay the bills without a current bill. Yes you can pay current bill with a old bill.

I guess I am getting sapping in my old age. I like the song Only Time by Enya, till I saw the movie Sweet November today...how sad, now the song is even more sad.

Still alive

Well it has been awhile since I have posted. This is because not a lot is going on, just life. Same as everyone else, except that I am not working.

Well as I said not much going on. We heading into winter, the weather is still nice. It is cool in the morning but the afternoon is nice and warm, upper 60s.

I thought I would upload some new pictures.

This is a picture of  fruit we have on a plant we have in the backyard. It is called Monstera deliciosa.

Here is a closer picture of the fruit

The fruit is suppose to taste like across between pineapple and strawberry. I'll have to let you know if we try the fruit.

Well I do have work to do, well yard work anyway.

Maybe will upload more pictures.

Life...

Well sorry I haven't posted in a while. Basically as the title says... life. That is pretty much where I am right now.  Have had no luck in obtaining a teaching English position, I think in part as I have no degree. Other then that we are doing fine. We are moving into Fall here, the children here have started school so its more nosier in the morning as all the little school bus come to pick up the kids.

Well hope all my friends are well. Write we you can.

Thoughts about new Yahoo home page?

Ok everybody, leave feedback to Yahoo; new page format is terrible. Should offer a way to go back to old format. Here is the link to leave feedback http://feedback.help.yahoo.com/feedback.php?.src=homerun&.done=http://www.yahoo.com

So please everyone let them know how you feel.

One year anniversary

Well it has been one year since I have quit working and moved to Chile. It has been exciting !!!

We are doing well, I do have to admit that there are things I do miss not being in the States. Some of the things I miss are,not in any order:

1. The Internet is not created equal... :(. There are some sites that are not available because I am in Chile, such as Hulu.

2. Which then leads to TV, can see soe shows from US, but do miss watching NASCAR.

2. Kentucky Fried Chicken. We can not get a buck of chicken, mashed potatoes and cole slaw. Here its 

Kentucky Fried Chicken - Chile style http://www.kentucky.cl/delivery/familiares.html

3. I do miss work, well actually the people... you know who you are.... 

4. I do miss driving.. not quite ready to that here, am able to get around by bus and Metro.

Things I don't miss are

1.  All the crazy shootings going on, definitely not a problem here. Here it would be petty thief at best. We have experienced that, as Susan had a necklace rip off her neck.. Wasn't suppose to be wearing it to star with.... Her bike was stolen... we didn't have it locked.

2. Still getting use to how Chileans do business.  They are on their own time schedules, when have something delivered its from 0800 - 2100. Have some thing repaired, tell you three weeks, can be longer,

But other then this things we are getting along. Still working on my Spanish....


Well take care.

Water..on

Yea water has been restored, so it didn't take as long, they started to restore water last night. We weren't affected too much as we keep water on hand.

Don't known what this is going to cost the water company as they are being find about a $1,000,000 for the last time they had to cut off the water.

Well have a good day

Map of water shortage