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Good point, Scott.
I am just in from 2 hours preparing a new garden for planting. Two hours out of many others…
Moving to CR has been a huge undertaking especially since we bought a home with a lot of land. I do love my gardens. When I have time to relax (usually while putting ice on something that hurts), I enjoy reading what is posted on this site or in the local English language papers – or the Tico papers, if my Spanish is sufficient. And I do enjoy posting, sometimes about a local feria, sometimes about taxes or what is happening in the US that might effect us here in CR, and sometimes about the unfounded or wild statements of another poster.
Debate is good. If you don’t want to read a debate, skip some postings. But please don’t give up on this excellent website. There is a lot here that can be helpful.
You mean, how do you sneak it out of the country? According to some posts, you just declare that you are taking more than $10k out? Don’t recall anyone talking about cash vrs. metals but could be wrong.
As for me, I think I would make a big shiny necklace and a belt out of gold coins, linking them by encircling them with wire, and simply put them in the big tray that goes through the xray machine. 🙂 The toes of my work boots? The head of a cane? I know – gold fishhooks!
And we love our farmer’s market even without the mj brownies!
And what a surprise to go by the feria location yesterday and discover that they putting up a huge covered area for the sellers! With any luck, it will be ready for the market on April 7. Now if they could only slow down that wind…..
So, we are all happy that there might be a coffee that resists rust? No one has a comment on using GMOs to produce that plant? I guess Maravilla doesn’t drink coffee…..
Smoking? Low birth weight and other complications. Drinking? Fetal Alcohol Syndrome (FAS) with huge ramifications. Both happen with [i]current[/i] use. Marijuana causes problems when the drug hasn’t been used for years. Big difference.
Equating drug dependence with addiction to sugar or food in general is so misguided that I don’t even know where to begin. Before I retired, I was, by profession, a mental health and chemical dependency counselor. I know the human costs, even with “just” marijuana.
Let me explain a bit, with information that almost no one talks about. When a baby girl is born, all the eggs she will ever have are already present on the ovaries. Ova are surrounded by fatty tissue. THC clings to fatty tissue and can damage eggs. Damage an egg by smoking marijuana as a teenager and that could be the egg that is fertilized when you are 25. The result? Miscarriage. Birth defects – including autism. Do we teach that? No. Why not? God only knows. Perhaps because teenagers aren’t going to listen? Because it takes thinking about future implications for your behavior? I can tell you that I used to explain it to the teens I worked with – all male. One of them then called his pregnant girlfriend and had her go for an amnio. The baby was fine but he asked her not to smoke mj anymore. And, yes, as with cigarette smoking, mj smoking during pregnancy can also damage the fetus.
This is a complex issue. More education is required and so is more therapy for people who use any sort of drug. Will people continue to use? Yes. And they will continue to die.
Windy and hot describes Tilaran. Arenal is less windy, a bit cooler, a bit wetter. As they say here, just drive 10 klicks for a different climate.
Finca, the ‘serious’ paperwork is finally Apostilled. Now the atty wants new social security letters and evidently can’t find my letter of intent to live in a foreign country, although he has my husband’s and we got them at the same time. Not the first time paperwork as been mislaid. Sigh. Another trip to the embassy I guess.
