Maison Tranquille Blog

Friday we went to Cairns to Rusty's Market.  Food here is very expensive.  Eight papayas were $25.00.  Small bananas were about $1.00/each, and the larger bananas were about $2.00/each.  Small mangoes were $3.00/each.  I got my sugar cane drink at Rusty's.  I'm so addicted to them. On the way home we stopped in Smithville to visit John's travel agency, Flight Central.  The agent that booked my flights was named Chris.  He lived near Atlanta for a while as a student, so he liked my southern drawl.  I got all my flights booked for the September Australian tour for  $720.00. We had to drive to Kunandra for John to pick up his new bank card.  Kunandra is  in the Kunandra Rain Forest...quite a tourist town.  I plan on visiting it again during September.  Maybe I'll take the tourist train up and ride the cable car back to Cairns. I got a sweet letter from Ashlyn.  She sent me a beautiful strawberry ornament ...

My healing symptoms this morning are sore nose (left nostril done, right nostril is sore now), rash and itching of upper body, lymph gland behind left ear still sore but now is smaller (it's almost done), right lymph gland behind ear is getting a sore knot now, cramps down the front of the legs.  Other than that, I feel GREAT! I slept ten hours, woke up at 6:30 and did my exercises, dressed for work, and read until time to go to work. I mowed some grass today with the push mower, and we fed four trees.  The 30-year old water hose broke today, so I watched (and helped a little) as John repaired it. I cracked the coconut and grated half of it for our lunch.  The coconut water is very good.  Lunch was papaya, black sapote, pineapple, avocado, banana and coconut. We had a discussion on the color of body fluids.  The color indicates the level of toxicity - clear, yellow, green, black.  In some plague type diseases, such as smallpox, the urine can become ...

It rained last night.  I slept eleven hours, woke up at 12:30 and read for about an hour then went back to sleep until 7:00.  It's 62 degrees in my room. I am itching...broken out with a rash on my upper body...and my kidney hurts. I did my exercises and dressed for work.  I don't change clothes as much here.  I work in the same clothes Sunday through Thursday.  I change clothes after my shower before lunch every day, but I wear one outfit Friday through Monday and then a new outfit for Tuesday through Thursday.  Hand laundry and going to the laundromat makes me want to use as few clothes as possible. Our job today was to stake the tomatoes and cucumbers.  We walked over to the river bank and cut some bamboo poles which we used as stakes for our plants.  We tied the poles to the mesh cover with strips of old sheeting.  We used more strips to tie the plants to the poles. Cutting bamboo poles for stakes. Tomatoes and cucumbers sta...

I didn't sleep so well last night.  I was itching and concerned about things at home.  I got up at 6:30 and did my exercises, dressed, and read until time to start work at 8:00.  There was no 240v power this morning. I planted five more pineapples in the new pineapple bed.  I dug a hole, put in a trowel full of blue stone, fertilizer, and compost then planted the pineapple using another scoop of compost and the dirt from the hole.  After packing the earth tight around the plant, I tucked the babies in with mulch and watered them in with seaweed/fish water. I helped John feed five trees and plant a new tree.  It was good exercise pushing the wheel barrow and shoveling compost and mulch. Planting a new tree. Lunch was papaya, sapadilla, custard apple, avocado, banana, and coconut. When I get home my lunch will be the fruit we have available.  If I can't get coconut I will use the nuts we have such as pecans, walnuts, or almonds.  Another...