Monkeys, Scorpions, Mullet??? For the last few days, I have felt like I have been living in a National Geographic magazine. I am not sure what it is, maybe that I am fully settled back in, and thus the animals can sense my tranquillo and are appearing, or if it is just the changing of the season... while I would prefer the former, but doubt that is the case. In other news, our baby is growing quickly, and instead of a belly button Sarah now has a... well, I am not sure of the word for it, but it is like when a basketball's inner lining finally breaks through the leather and squeezes out. We have about 6 weeks left, as the baby will be born on December 21st. I know, I know... enough about the baby, you want to hear about monkeys...
Well, for the past week, there have been two or three large packs of monkeys right around our house. The first encounter was two nights ago in the trees directly above our porch. The pack was moving towards the beach and jumping from tree to tree across our lawn. Now, the packs here range from a few, 2 or 3, on up to 40 monkeys. The larger packs are of females and babys, with a few males commingling. The pack that night was in the nieghborhood of 30 monkeys, and we had a solid 25 minutes of watching them move. The next two encounters happened on the way to the beach on very low trees. In each encounter there were mom's with little tiny babies holding on. The little guys peaking over there moms shoulders just looking at us. They aren't really scared of people, and just usually mind their own business eating mangos or whatever. It is pretty cool to live in a place where daily you see something worth stopping to watch...
It is pretty uncool however to come home from walking Thor, open the door, and have a scorpion jump out and Thor try to bite it.. I caught the little bastard, and took a few photos, so you all don't think I am making up my stories. Thor didn't get stung and we released the scorpion in Andrew's bed... that will show him for eating my banana bread...
I am not sure if what I saw today in the water was cool or not... I have never seen mullet in Costa Rica before, and I am not sure if what I saw today were mullet. But they looked like mullet, in big schools, but would come up to the surface and suck in air??? Mullet back home don't do that.. So if anyone can tell me what kind of a fish that is, and what kinds of bigger fish eat that fish, I would be stoked. Because, right now they are everywhere, so the big ones that eat them have to be also.
On to the dog front. Sandy and Mack are good, they got into a fight with Luka, Brandon's dog yesterday. It was a pretty funny fight, as Mackie started it with Luka nad then ran away, Luka then attacked Sandy who is too old and slow to get a bite on Luka, and Luka, even have a good bite on Sandy's neck is too weak to do anything... So what you had was Sandy trying to turn around on Luka, with Luka trying his hardest to hurt Sandy, and Mackie, who started the whole thing running circles around them barking... Comedy...
On the Thor front, he came out big at school yesterday. His best work yet! Right now, he and his litter are at the age of cutting new teeth and losing baby teeth, so after every bite they were just drooling blood (look closely in the pic above...). Magnus left a tooth in the bite sleeve.
Chow. E.
Well, for the past week, there have been two or three large packs of monkeys right around our house. The first encounter was two nights ago in the trees directly above our porch. The pack was moving towards the beach and jumping from tree to tree across our lawn. Now, the packs here range from a few, 2 or 3, on up to 40 monkeys. The larger packs are of females and babys, with a few males commingling. The pack that night was in the nieghborhood of 30 monkeys, and we had a solid 25 minutes of watching them move. The next two encounters happened on the way to the beach on very low trees. In each encounter there were mom's with little tiny babies holding on. The little guys peaking over there moms shoulders just looking at us. They aren't really scared of people, and just usually mind their own business eating mangos or whatever. It is pretty cool to live in a place where daily you see something worth stopping to watch...
It is pretty uncool however to come home from walking Thor, open the door, and have a scorpion jump out and Thor try to bite it.. I caught the little bastard, and took a few photos, so you all don't think I am making up my stories. Thor didn't get stung and we released the scorpion in Andrew's bed... that will show him for eating my banana bread...
I am not sure if what I saw today in the water was cool or not... I have never seen mullet in Costa Rica before, and I am not sure if what I saw today were mullet. But they looked like mullet, in big schools, but would come up to the surface and suck in air??? Mullet back home don't do that.. So if anyone can tell me what kind of a fish that is, and what kinds of bigger fish eat that fish, I would be stoked. Because, right now they are everywhere, so the big ones that eat them have to be also.
On to the dog front. Sandy and Mack are good, they got into a fight with Luka, Brandon's dog yesterday. It was a pretty funny fight, as Mackie started it with Luka nad then ran away, Luka then attacked Sandy who is too old and slow to get a bite on Luka, and Luka, even have a good bite on Sandy's neck is too weak to do anything... So what you had was Sandy trying to turn around on Luka, with Luka trying his hardest to hurt Sandy, and Mackie, who started the whole thing running circles around them barking... Comedy...
On the Thor front, he came out big at school yesterday. His best work yet! Right now, he and his litter are at the age of cutting new teeth and losing baby teeth, so after every bite they were just drooling blood (look closely in the pic above...). Magnus left a tooth in the bite sleeve.
Chow. E.
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