Archive for May, 2009

Seriously, our garden is the bomb. Of course, I say this regardless of the fact that we don’t have any plants in it yet. We have a bunch of tomatoes popping through the beautiful soil, some lettuce and sugar snap peas. We are still waiting on our other little seeds to show their little sprouts. [...]

Rainy Season is upon us and isn’t shy. It has been rainy almost every day for the past three weeks. It isn’t always an all day rain though, many of the days are just afternoon showers…lovely, humidity killing afternoon showers. The thunder was rumbling this morning when I got up and went into the office [...]

Summer and I absolutely love fresh vegetables. The local Econo (grocery store) has done a great job in the past two years stocking their produce section with new and non-traditional PR vegetables. When I used to visit Rincon as a kid, the Econo was the dominate supermarket without much competition and the majority of my [...]

Tags: banco popular, banks, Mortgage, Puerto Rico, Small Print

I am too busy to go into a big detailed and researched story on Banco Popular and how it got started in Puerto Rico. What I can tell you is this, don’t open an account there. My experience with them in the past two months has convinced me it’s time to change banks, and now [...]

Yes, that’s right. After a year and a half of piecing together our kitchen when we had the money and when our custom cabinet builder had the time to show up, we are finally there. Well, not quite there, but 99% there. I am kind of counting our chickens before the eggs have hatched here, [...]