What a great Thanksgiving party we had last night! Althea and I had prepared pumpkin squares (big pan version of pumpkin pie), brownies, Craisins, bananas with peanut butter, candy corn, hot spiced cider, and sweet tea. Odd combination? Yes, but the reason is clear: we had 85 people in attendance! When we realized so many … [Read more…]
El Valle is a throwback to earlier, simpler times. Old pickups; unpaved roads almost as common as the paved ones; dogs of all shapes and colors, sprawled in inconvenient places; school children in uniforms, walking to school, parented little ones, older children talking and giggling; people walking down the middle of the road until a … [Read more…]
Our home is called Campimento Guadalapano, a former camp for wayward girls from Panama City, sponsored by the Daughters of Guadalupe. Now it is th home of Iglesia de Cristo, the Church of Christ in El Valle. Tuesday night, in the midst of a powerful rainstorm, we joined the local church (or they joined us, … [Read more…]
