el duende grande

till wife came with bad news. The aunt of the kid's maid was murdered. Seems she sold a cow and that night somebody came for the proceeds.

Other than that, the bacanal has not quite ended with everybody hungover and broke on the 25th. Buttload of money still in country, airport running 10-11 flights a day. Local professional estimates that the thievery season will run till end of January. There is just too much money and stupid left for it to end sooner.

Fallout from the kid's burgary heavy. Kids going to install electric fence. My neighbor suggests a battery backup. He has a double row of serpentina plus the electric fence. I have a bid from an electtition for more motion lights and now after this murder wife wants to seal up our elegant front wall that she tastefully designed about 4 years ago. I guess it doesn't pay to be artsy craftsy in the safest country in Central America. I'm thinking of leaving 2 M2 windows with verjas, maya expandida and 2 inch thick wooden shutters that we can open when we sit in the entry garden.