A Day Off

Hey everyone

Well we have been here for three weeks now. I am actually used to the heat and the smells and loving my daily walks in NO SNOW! Not to sure of the food though besides the chicken bits I get occasionally, I am running low on my Little Caesar's and mom and dad have been supplementing a locally made dog food. I don't think I like it very much. It has funny things in it like fruit and stuff ewww. But I guess I will get used to it if I have too.  Who said I was a spoiled dog???

It rained a bit yesterday, made it really humid outside. Like it is not humid all the time LOL.

Most things are closed on a Sunday in Belize, kind of like it used to be back home years ago I am told. People actually have a life here and whole day to spend it with there families even the ones with less money. Not like home where it is usually the poorer people that have to work weekends and holidays. Although more and more businesses are opening 7 days a week back home, a person is hard pressed to find a business that is closed on a Sunday or holiday. The society we live in back home is so commercially oriented that family is an after thought. Oh My God what would people do if they could not go shopping every day and all night to spend all there money and fill the big gaping empty holes in there emotional lives! How would they be happy? How would they survive? I think that if all the things that are bought and thrown away still good every year in Canada could supply the people here with houses so full of things they would never have to worry about shopping for anything again.

People live such a simpler life here. You buy your dishes, from a choice of three different patterns and types if your lucky and you keep them forever, you do not go out and buy a new pattern and style every time you turn around. Where at home we have towels and blankets to supply an army here you are lucky to have one blanket for each bed and one towel each. No cupboards full of things you never use. No garage sales to get rid of all the stuff you thought was great deal and could not pass up and never used, only used once, put away and forgot about it . . . . . . No second had stores to sell new-used stuff that people don't want once they bought it. People are not drowning in stuff here and that gives them time for family. Family is very important here. People are less stressed, healthier, more relaxed and more friendly.   They are not madly running around looking for more stuff to buy. There is none! You can walk into the clinic and see the doctor as soon as you walk in because people are not as sick from the stress of working there butts off to buy stuff.

It is so nice to relax and enjoy life for a change.

Well off to get ready for my walk
Bark at you later

Got pillows

Well I am happy to report we found pillows. After searching high and low through it seemed every store in town, we went into two stores yesterday that we had not been in and low and behold they had bed pillows! Lots and lots of bed pillows! This is very good as I was beginning to despair as I love pillows. Ya I am a bit of a lazy spoiled dog and I like to lay on pillows and under pillows, what can I say? I like big fluffy blankets and quilts too, that we have found but in short supply and very expensive. So we continue to search for a quilt.

There are lots and lots of dogs here. Most of them are pretty well looked after from what I see, a few without homes though. There is one that lives two houses down from us someone said it is only 5 months old. It is a pit bull and it is locked in a 3ft. x 3ft box 24 hours a day 7 days a week. We saw the man who owns it take it out twice tie it on a short chain to a piece of cement and poke it with a stick :-O poor puppy. Where does it go to the bathroom? I would not like to be locked up like that all the time. Mom and dad think it is being trained to be a fighting dog, poor dog :-(
Sadly there seems to be no stopping the cruelty of the world and peoples hunger for it that feeds it.

Mom keeps laughing at me for trying to eat the pigeon feathers on the deck. I say if you can't have the pigeon. . . . .

The weather sure does change fast here. When we got here in mid October the weather was plus 30 felt like plus 40 and not much cooler at night so hot! Now it is a lot cooler around plus 30 and feels like plus 32 and it even goes down to 20 or less at night. That is so much easier to sleep it is a lot like summer back home now. Thank goodness we are not back home mom says she read it is snowing like crazy and cold. I am so appreciating coming her now it we were back in Canada my daily walks would have stopped by now!

I am off to get ready for the day, the maid comes today to clean its nice. Everything gets very dusty here! Only problem is she comes in the morning so I have to wait until after lunch to go for my walk. Oh well the sacrifices I make so we can have dust free house and a clean toilet, not that I use the toilet, but the gardener does pick up my poopies so it is the same thing I guess haha!

Check ya later!