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Thursday, November 27, 2014



Old Resources!!

After school, in the CI Primary Library, it's coloring time. These kids love to color, even 30 year old coloring book pages. My sister, Charlene, sent me a coloring book that belonged to my niece, Beth, 30 years ago. Who would have thought it would serve as entertainment in Guyana in 2014.

Also the popular check-outs here are all the Disney tales; Beauty and the Beast, Snow White, Lion King, The Little Mermaid, even Bambi. The boys especially like Goosebumps and I've gotten many requests for the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew.


The hanging baubles seem to be acting as a deterrent, keeping the pigeons at bay except in one corner right over the door. I've even hung origami parrots, hoping that the competition will drive the pigeons to other roosting grounds, but they are not life size, they look more like parakeets. 











Happy Thanksgiving!

This is the centipede that woke me at 5 am this morning with a painful bite to my middle finger. This is the third centipede that I've captured in my house since arriving in July. They are fairly compliant when presented with an empty tin can. Evidently they are drawn to dark places, but they quickly realize their mistake so I have to slap a plastic top on to prevent them from doing an about-


face. They are fast. Of course, who wouldn't be with 100 legs. The can enables me to dump the dangerous villains and then immediately chop, chop them in half. But here's the really unsettling part, at least for me. Four hours later, I returned home to take some benedryl (After the initial throbbing, redness, pain, my hand swelled and the PC nurse advised), and half of that wormy critter was still wiggling outside in the rain. Besides cockroaches, centipedes will probably survive the holocaust.