It’s 4:00 Wednesday afternoon. It’s been overcast all day and it finally started raining. This should be rainy season in the Solomons, but this year there hasn’t been much rain. We’ve had some light showers over the past few weeks but today it was a heavier rain. After the rain fell for 5-10 minutes, I […]
With termites on our minds these days, when Tim found a soft spot in our living room floor, he starting investigating. Yes, the termites are in at least one floor board in our living room. Sigh. The incredible thing is that you can actually hear the little stinkers chewing away! They make a crackly sound […]
Our washing machine has made quite a lot of trips to the repair shop over the last couple of years, so it wasn’t a huge surprise to find out this week that it wasn’t worth repairing after a recent breakdown. In Honiara there are not a lot of options for buying appliances. There are some […]
In the USA we were inundated with commercials with the little green gecko representing Geico insurance. I guess geckos are cute, if you don’t have to live with them all the time. Here in the tropics, geckos live inside the house. They can often be seen scurrying around the walls and heard making a little […]
As we unpack, we are finding more things that the termites have gotten into. This morning it was paperback books. As you can see, they look a bit like Swiss cheese. I’m thankful they didn’t touch my wooden recorder which was sitting on the same shelf. I guess the books were easier to chew. Many […]