Stefan and I have spent the last 24 hours looking for Kuta and I was 100% sure that we would not see him again :(. Stefan hiked the entire town (it took 5 hours) looking for Kuta and we spent the entire rest of the day driving around trying to find him.
Kuta never leaves the yard, so when we got back last night and he wasn’t laying in the driveway waiting for us, I knew something was wrong. Then the neighbor told us they saw him walk down the driveway at 10:30pm and I was certain that he had been hit by a car. Kuta has no fear of cars and we live really close to the I-414, which is the directions that he was headed. So, you can imagine why I was so certain that he was a goner.
Stefan and I were sitting in the living room watching TV to try and take our minds off of it, when I heard something. The dogs across the quebrada were barking. Which isn’t all that unusual, but they kept barking. And it was a bark that meant that there was another dog on their street. So I walked out on the back porch and called Kuta’s name. I heard a jangle of dog tags, but it I figured it was Monkey. Until I saw a white blaze in the darkness!!
Kuta’s back!! He was soaking wet, hungry and he smells like he has been rolling in cow poop all day long.
Summer and I came home from Poker last night and Kuta wasn’t here. We looked for him last night and I have been walking and driving around the neighborhood calling his name all morning but haven’t found him yet. If you see Kuta, please call us or email us.
Kuta came home…he isn’t missing anymore!
Kuta is an Australian Shepperd. Here are some pictures of him:
When Stefan got the great idea of continuing our blue rock path into the driveway, I don’t think he realized the magnitude of this project.
Multiple trips to the quarry, lugging around 100lb+ rocks, hired help, hired tractors, manual labor…etc. etc. etc. Anyhow, the driveway looks awesome now that is it nearly done, but this is how slow and laborious the work was:
Dig hole…shovel gravel…carry huge rock…have backhoe pound it into place…shovel dirt…repeat…
I spent about a week at the quarry last month gathering blue stone for our driveway. The stones I chose and hand/machine loaded are just like the rocks we have on our path from our front porch to the dirt pad where we park our cars but they are much much bigger. Jerry and I spent one day about a month ago digging and laying rocks on the pad where we park with the help of a back-hoe. In our eight hour day, we completed an area about 8 feet wide by 15 feet long. And wow, it was hard work. I always get myself in over my head.
When I found out the city was going to come on Monday and blacktop our driveway, I decided that we needed to finish the blue stone before the blacktop was down. I don’t want to have a brand new driveway and then pay a back-hoe to tear it up days after installation. So, I tracked down a back-hoe on Friday night for Saturday and Sunday and recruited Jerry and Edgar to help me lay the rest of the blue stone.
Check out some of our handy work…fun with Apple iMovies:
This post is almost completely non-house/construction related. It has to do with music, but it’s music we listen to when were working around the house, so I felt it was suitable to post on the blog.
This guys name is Ernest Ranglin, and I would describe his music as Reggae/Ska/Jazz all smashed together (description by Ken). He sent me over a few you tube videos of his live gigs, and his music is tight. The first video is him rocking out with just an acoustic base (maybe a cello) at his side (he is playing the guitar) and is much more jazzy with a island style base line. The second video is of him with a a full crew on stage rocking out some ska/reggae/jass styley! The third video sounds as if it professionally produced and is really really good.
Summer and I were heading to the post office on Friday and heard all kinds of ruckus on the way out of our Sector Vargas neighborhood street. When we got to the 414 we saw big dump trucks and city works people everywhere. Well, it ends up that the city is laying black top on the roads and driveways that need it in our neighborhood. Wahoooo!
With the help of my neighbor, I asked around for the supervisor who showed up about 15 minutes before the end of their workday. We brought her down to my house and showed her the driveway. She nodded, and said that we definitely needed a new driveway! She told me I needed to prepare the dirt/driveway and she would be back on Monday or Wednesday (Tuesday is a holiday here) to pave it for us.
That picture was taken on Friday. I decided that once the driveway was paved, any heavy equipment coming in and of it could mess up the blacktop so it was time to start moving some rocks and placing them in the flat area at the bottom of the hill where we park our cars. I worked all day Saturday and Sunday with a back-hoe and two guys (Edgar and Jerry) and finished laying all the stone. I took some pictures and video and will be upload the video later, stay tuned!
Summer and I left town last week a few days before the Tropical Storm that was heading North West, decide to change its mind so we weren’t too worried about it. Then, it ended up switching West, running over Puerto Rico and heading on up towards Cuba, turned into Hurricane Faye and is now over Florida. We didn’t have any damage at all, as a matter of a fact, friends told me that it barely even rained here. When the storm passed Rincon, it was about 70 degrees and cloudy. Perfect for yard work or just kicking it. I even overheard someone at the Calypso the other night say that they actually had to trade in their Tank Top for a short sleeve shirt! You know it must have been cold if people are busting out their short sleeve shirts.
We went to Vail Colorado for a friends wedding. We got there on Thursday and left on Monday. It was a real pain to get to though. Listen to this:
Fly out of Aguadilla to Newark (3 hours 30mins)
3 Hour delay in Newark
Fly to Denver (3 hours 10mins)
Rent a car, wait for rush hour traffic to be over and drive to Vail (6 hours)
We played golf one day at the Eagle Creek Golf course, took the Gondola to the top of Vail Mountain for dinner one night (at the Game Creek Restaurant), went to the Vail Jazz festival, hung out with friends and enjoyed the cool weather (it snowed one night above 10,000ft and sleeted at our condo), I cooked for 40 people on Saturday, enjoyed a great rehearsal dinner at the Cordillera Country Club and then the ceremony the following day at Cordillera Resort.
The travel time was a little brutal, once compounded with late nights and early mornings, we were REALLY looking forward to coming home and relaxing (sort of).
Check out a few of the pictures from our trip:
Ha! I feel like we took more ‘prom pictures’ than anything else. Summer has a bunch more pictures on her camera and I have a few more on my phone that I’ll upload.
Two cops in Texas thought they may have seen the elusive Chupacabra while training last week. Check out the article:
DeWITT COUNTY, Texas — The legend of the chupacabra gained new life over the weekend as two DeWitt County sheriff’s deputies spotted what they said they believe is the mythical creature.
Friday, Cpl. Brandon Riedel was training a new deputy when he said they saw the animal running down a dirt path along fence lines.
“You need to record something like this because it’s not everyday you find something that looks like this running around out in the middle of the county,” he said.
The short-legged, hairless animal has a long snout that looks like a coyote, but Riedel said he isn’t convinced.
“You know, it’s just kind of one of those things to hear about and talk about, but to actually see something on video that may actually be a live one, that’s pretty amazing,” DeWitt County Sheriff Jode Zavesky said.
Friday’s sighting isn’t the first time a local believes they’ve seen the mythical animal. A rancher in 2007 found a dead animal that was thought to be a chupacabra, but one resident said whether or not it’s true, it can only benefit the community.
“It’s like every good urban legend,” Erik McCowan said. “Maybe it’s better to just think it is the chupacabra and just leave it at that.”
There is some action in the Atlantic Ocean. There are a few storms rolling around the Atlantic that are typical of this time of year.
Here is what the Nation Hurricane Center has to say about the closer of the two storms:
A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE ASSOCIATED WITH A TROPICAL WAVE IS
LOCATED 650 MILES EAST OF THE LESSER ANTILLES. ASSOCIATED SHOWER
AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY HAS BEEN GRADUALLY INCREASING…AND A
TROPICAL DEPRESSION COULD FORM DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO AS THE
SYSTEM MOVES WEST-NORTHWESTWARD OR NORTHWESTWARD AT 10 TO 15 MPH.
AN AIR FORCE RESERVE HURRICANE HUNTER AIRCRAFT IS SCHEDULED TO
INVESTIGATE THIS SYSTEM LATER TODAY…IF NECESSARY.
I am reporting a bunch of information from The National Hurricane Center regarding tropical storms in the Atlantic and Hurricane information. Conner suggested that I get a National Hurricane Center widget for the site so we can track hurricanes right from Ca2Pr.com.
Great idea Conner: Here is our Hurricane Tracking Widget
If you want to add this widget to your site or blog, copy and paste this code into your site.
