Tumbaco 4-30-2020

Not much has changed as far as quarantine. Hopefully it relaxes next week but we will see. I read that Argentina has extended until September 1st. No international or domestic flights, allowed outside 1 hour a day, and no more than 500 meters from your house! Hopefully Ecuador doesn’t go that route. I will go stir crazy and be an illegal alien again. As it is now I volunteer to go anywhere just to get out for a while. It can be to buy food, bamboo, wood, nails, pick up boxes, it doesn’t matter I’m in. As the quarantine has gone on it seems like the streets are busier than when it first started. At least on a local level. Still no bus service, fewer taxi’s working, and lines to get into the stores with social distancing.

Here in Tumbaco projects are getting done. The garden on the hill is doing well and the new box garden is completed and planted. The family worked very hard and it shows. The restaurant has had a few projects completed and now a new chicken coop is going to be built.They have been selling lemons and avocado’s as people have asked.

I hope everyone is doing well and staying out of trouble.

Ya’all take care now ya hear, Randy

Happy April Fool’s Day

Well two more weeks of lockdown, hopefully. Rumor is that some people will be able to go back to work on the 5th of April. We will have to wait and see. If so I believe only within the province. I did get a chance to go out the other day and did see how calm the city is. Very few out driving, a few walking but pretty much shut down except for people getting food.

The garden is looking good and an area of planter boxes is now being added. Dogs got a bath. Well, at least the ones that could be caught. Mateo and Edwin made homemade pizza the other night. David and Mateo cooked up a couple of Guinea pigs last week. The sauce was a little to citrusy for me, some “Sweet Baby Ray’s” bbq would have been more to my liking. It was cooked in the wood oven (love the smoke flavor). Radishes here are the size of apples.

The kittens are getting bigger and a little more adventurous.

Everyone stay safe!!!