Even the chickens don't lay on Mondays

An old Honduran saying explaining why you can't get anything done on Mondays.

Eucalyptus trees in El Porvenir

El Jefe tells me that these Eucalyptus trees were planted to suck up the excess water from a formerly swampy area in El Porvenir.





Aren't those trunks amazing? I've never seen such colors on a trunk before.

The little bag of crochet supplies

El Jefe seemed to be getting a little annoyed with all my plastic bag crocheting paraphernalia laying on the table all the time. 'Keeping things in order' is a strong Honduran trait. Leaving half-finished sewing and craft projects and supplies laying around is a strong La Gringa trait. To appease him, I took up the habit of stuffing it all in a little, flimsy plastic bag so the table would look a little neater.

Then it came to me! What am I doing? I should have a plastic bag bag to store my things in.

My all time favorite plastic bags are these bright pink and yellow striped bags but they aren't real common. I don't have enough to make an entire bag with so I made myself a mini bag to store my scissors and hooks and notes.

Ain't it cute?

I wonder where the idea for the little circle decorations came from.....

Hmmm, could it be this?