Brandon

Brandon is sitting here with me today while I write this.

I said..."What should I write about?" and he said, "Put in this picture of me."

So, Here's Brandon...

Edson's Pictures

Edson has been into drawing and coloring lately. This is last night's version of "mom and dad" and cars. After a while he said that he decided that the bottom picture was not cars, it was teeth! (Then he showed me his teeth and growled like a big bear growl and ready to attack.) Yeah, That's what it was supposed to be! Huge teeth!

More Citrus

This is a red-colored ORANGE. We had about 50 fruits this year. We would have had more, but Edson picked them off when they were grape-sized. These are not as sweet as some oranges, but they are pretty good. When we made orange juice-it was more like reddish-pink juice.
The middle one is peeled like they peel oranges here, and then you can suck all the juice out of it. The citrus fruits are almost finishing. It's been wonderful to pick them straight off the trees!

Grapefruits...or Pomelos...or Toronja!

We had five HUGE GRAPEFRUITS on our tree this year. This is no. 4. Sometimes they get to be the size of a basketball. There are some dark reddish ones and light-grapefruit colored ones.

My dad used to always work away at cutting little triangles out of halved grapefruits. I never liked all the work or the bitter-sweet taste. But, eating a grapefruit in Paraguay is like eating grapefruit sugar. Here people will peel them, cut a hole in the top and suck all the juice out...I decided to do it my dad's old way...cut it in half and slice out little triangles, then squeeze all the juice out.

The huge grapefruits are not juicy. You have to peel them and then pull all the pulp out of them. It tastes like little bubbles of sweet grapefruit. There is no way one person can eat one fruit all alone. It is way to big!

Ummmm! One more left this year!

Paraguay - World Cup

By the way, if you are a soccer fan, Paraguay and Italy tied today... 1 - 1

I got the picture from this article.

Sasha's in the Hospital

Sasha's cast came off (actually she chewed it off), so Oscar took her to the vet and he wants to have her in a cage for at least four days so she can be still. He bandaged her up some how and wants her off her legs for a while. Our yard is too big and she still runs around barking at everyone. He is giving her calcium shots.
This is actually getting kind of funny...she is only a dog! But, Oscar feels so bad that he made her jump and fall.
The house is silent for a while, no little tail "knocking at the door". No barking to let us know someone's here. No one to throw left overs to. We miss her after all.

Help! Emergency!

Last night we got home late from church and after dinner (at 10:00 pm) Oscar went out to play with Sasha. She loves to run and jump and turn flips in the air and Oscar loves to play with her. Well, after a while he came in and said..."Sasha jumped and fell bad on her back leg. I think she broke it!"

Where do we find a vet on a holiday (June 12-Paz de Chaco) and late on a Saturday night?

We quickly thought of Mariela and Jarlen. Jarlen studied to be a Vet in Cuba and just married Mariela and we called them and went all across town to bring them back to our house to have him check out Sasha's leg.

It was pretty bad, so he thought up a way to put it in a cast. Jarlen says that dog bones heal much faster than human bones. I don't know who felt the worst, Oscar, Sasha, Gaby or Jarlen. The whole emergency made it hard to sleep last night.

She seems a little more jumpier today, anyway.

Whewwww, what a crazy night!