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		<title>The Dry Season</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 04:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is May the 17th and we have not had rain in weeks.  It tried to rain the other night.  Lightening lit up the sky and thunder sent the dogs under the bed, but the rain just about squeezed out a few large drops on the zinc roof and then gave up.  Every morning a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=86&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sunday, Mangoes and the River</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2011 22:25:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is Sunday.  The sun is very hot, even with a good cloud cover.  We all came home from fried chicken with fried rice and felt the need to relax.  Ron is on the veranda watching the car race with his bag of trail mix.  I am in my office with the a/c and a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=83&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WASH DAY!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Mar 2011 05:11:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I walked down the winding path keeping an eye on the ground under my feet while I pushed aside the branches that intruded on the narrow space.  In one hand I held my closed umbrella and in the other was a five gallon bucket filled with dirty laundry.  I followed the girls down the hill, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=80&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 04:29:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was New Year&#8217;s Eve and approaching 2pm in the afternoon.  The sun was bright and getting hotter.  I went out to close the gate that had blown open and that is when I saw the wave approaching.  It was a crowd of kids on their way to our house.  Red, blue, yellow, pink and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=77&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Nest is Never Empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Dec 2010 02:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Elbia and I decided to go and visit her mom.  Her sister, Delmi had asked me on Sunday if I would come and talk with her.  It was raining off and on all morning and it is a bit of a walk to the house.  Finally in the early evening the rain had [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=74&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Meditating in the Mud</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Nov 2010 03:15:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is an amazing thing that happens when earth and water mix.  I can remember as a young girl we would play on the beach on Long Island and the mixture of sand and water was wonderful.  The sand castles were glorious.  But now I live in Belize, up in the Maya Mountains on the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=72&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Look both ways before you stop!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Nov 2010 21:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was coming out of my craft shed when Allison passed by and muttered something about selling his car.  We stopped to talk for a few minutes.  I was standing on the small wooden walk.  Suddenly, my feet were being chewed upon by a million red fire ants.  Whoever wrote the song about the ants [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=69&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Daily treasures</title>
		<link>http://lindaoasis.wordpress.com/2010/10/27/daily-treasures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 22:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despite the threat of a hurricane, Tiffany and I hauled the chairs and tables on the back of the truck up to the Spanish church to the back of Blackman Eddy.  It is less than a mile from the highway and yet it is in the bush.  On Sunday mornings Tiffany and I have a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=66&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feeding the 5,000  &#8211; well, maybe the 25!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Oct 2010 03:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Saturday seemed to be a homework marathon.  We had so many high school students here doing their projects and math homework. On one veranda, the girls were working on the water cycle.  They even learned Ms. Heather&#8217;s song from the Infant School to teach to their class.  On the next veranda, someone was working [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=64&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>INSECT INVASION</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Oct 2010 21:07:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the corner of the veranda on the second floor, there are some very busy bees.  The hum is getting louder everyday.  They obviously have quite a bit of honey in the overhang of our roof.  But what to do? Next we had our annual visit from the &#8220;cleaning ants&#8221;.  They march through the house [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lindaoasis.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9919646&amp;post=62&amp;subd=lindaoasis&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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