These tortillas are made from black corn. The house is full of smoke. Spanish has a verb for making tortillas: tortillar Spanish has a noun for the person who makes tortillas: tortillador Tortillas don’t have much flavour – think Doritos without the seasoning. Process for making a corn tortilla in Guatemala: plant the corn weed … [Read more…]
Several months ago, Amber returned home from the market with a bag of macademia nuts. Without a nutcracker, we would smash them on the back step with a hammer. Inevitably, some would scuttle off the step and we couldn’t find them. Yesterday, Blaise was adventuring behind the house and discovered one of the lost treasures. … [Read more…]
This is one of the mountains you see from Lake Louise. I really enjoyed being out in the fresh cool air, wearing layers and hearing the snow beneath the skis. Driving on the other hand, I hate it. Much of Amber’s extended family lives in Hazelton, BC on the highway between Prince George and Prince … [Read more…]
Came accross these highly charged political cartoons featured on the Harper’s* website. Some amazing cartoons. * Harper’s Magazine, not Stephen Harper
‘Twas a marvellous Christmas. We spent it at my mother’s home in Red Deer, AB. Also technically our home while we are in Guatemala as all of our stuff is there too. Present with me on Christmas Day were my wife, my son, my mother, my sister, my other sister, my brother-in-law, my sister-in-law, my … [Read more…]
I was hiking up a beautiful mountainside burrough of Tactic yesterday afternoon with Walter. Every fifth house was raising its roof with Mexican “yip-yip” cowboy music thus sharing their advanced sound system with the neighbours (vecinos). Walter explained that it was more important to many Guatemalans to have big speakers (vozinos) than to have pretty … [Read more…]
I saw my first murdered person the day before we flew to Canada. We are applying for residency in Guatemala and so I was obliged to go to the official’s office to sign some papers. I took a taxi. The driver had to redirect himself several times because of impromptu traffic barriers put up by … [Read more…]
Yowsers! There’s a fair bit to catch up on, so I’m not going to bother. GUATEMALA: I finished the sponsorship promotional video, subtitling and all. We left on a Tuesday morning for Guatemala City and spent a day there getting some of our residency papers done. While on my way to sign some paper downtown … [Read more…]
I was listening to a podcast of Dispatches, from CBC Radio 1 and heard my name! Check it out (the Dec 5 show) … I’m at 18:21. You can get the episode free from the iTunes Music Store aswell – search for Dispatches in the podcasting section.
We were invited to see Santa Claus when he briefly swung into Tactic on the weekend at our neighbours’ store. As you can see, the weather was ideal and Santa was seen by a host of people. Blaise was one of the lucky ones to be held by Santa. Not sure why there’s bad blood … [Read more…]