The weather is still incredible. It normally rains quite a bit every day this time of year but it hasn’t. Skies are still clear. The ground is covered with heavy dew in the mornings like it is other seasons. I have 2 pair of running shoes, fortunately. One set of socks and shoes get soaking wet from running in the morning and never thoroughly dry. This is the park I run in. There is a wood chip path. I regret not taking a picture from about every other area because there are many trees with brightly colored flowers that vary all over the place with regard to structure and size. Bugs? I’ve only seen two small ones since I got here, and no mosquitos. Most pests cannot survive at 9000′. However, Colombia has more hummingbirds and varieties of hummingbirds than any country in the world so the flowers must have them and the chickens know how to find them and everything else they need on the ground.
This morning while running I ran across that annoying noise maker that I mentioned in Update 1 1/6/2024. Jeremiah 29:11 was not on my mind when I saw him. He was around a shack with a lazy dog. But he doesn’t just crow when the sun comes up, it’s all night. He only shuts up during the day. A guy came out and was working on a nice wheel chair. The shack is too small for anyone to lay down, less than 5 feet square. I saw a girls face through the little window in the door. I decided to find a place to watch unnoticed. A motorcycle rode up and talked with them. Then a girl came out of the shack who I assumed was the face I saw. There was nothing wrong with her. I thought they are going to park her in wheel chair on the road to get money from passerbys. A guy came around the corner with a bicycle. To be incognito I needed to run and then position myself to observe. There was a in in the wheel chair. I followed them at a distance. They went about a 1/2 a mile and stopped. They kissed and the guy on the bike drove off. Then I decided to follow the girl pushing the wheel chair, who I now assumed to be the mother. She moves fast. I lost sight of her 3 times just tying my shoes. She took me on an approximately 3 mile hike into the city. I thought she would never stop. Then she went into the mall and I assumed she was going to buy something. The stores were all closed. She is a cleaning person. On the way back, Google Maps now required, I ran across church services from a converted house with one side open and plastic lawn chairs spilling out into the yard in front. As for the noise maker, roosters are born with attitude and will attack anything big or small which is why they have them. In the supermarket, free-range eggs are common and they are all brown and look the same. They sell them in celluloid packs of 30 an none broken. Their eggs taste WAY better than anything I’ve ever had in the U.S., not even close. I didn’t know they could taste like that. Free range here is free range, not lawyer free range. When I went by the shack on the way back, the guy on the motorcycle was pounding brand new cedar siding some places on the shack. This is a picture of the shack at the end of a street next to the park. The sleeping area is actually a tarp behind the shed that is approximately 3′ off the ground. You can see the guy making the repairs on the right-side.
