We finally have the kitchen cabinets installed in the main kitchen. Wolfgang did a beautiful job and the natural roble wood turned out really nice. We stayed with a simple, clean and natural look. Now we need to get the granite counter tops, which will be in “Peacock Green”, a very dark-green Brazilian granite. There will be two side-by-side refrigerators under the cabinets on the back wall. One unit is all-freezer, the other is all-fridge.
We should be able to use the kitchen and living-room by the end of August. Things have been really slow but picking up speed in recent weeks.
We stopped by a pineapple farm in El Espino yesterday on the way back from Panama City. Bought 4 freshly picked pineapples for $1. Yes, only 25 cents a piece, and they taste absolutely wonderful. Nothing at all like what we used to pay $4-$5 for in Canada, and tasted more like wood.
Conservative supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli won Panama’s presidential elections in a landslide Sunday, taking office as the Central American nation carries out an ambitious project to expand the Panama Canal.
Martinelli, of the opposition Alliance for Change, had 61 percent of the votes against 37 percent for ruling party candidate Balbina Herrera, Panama’s Electoral Tribunal reported with 63 percent of the votes counted.
Tribunal President Erasmo Pinilla called Martinelli, 57, the “indisputable winner” and said he had telephoned the candidate to inform him of his victory.
Martinelli, who owns Panama’s largest supermarket chain, said he would work for a national unity government because “that is what the country is counting on.”
“Tomorrow we will all be Panamamians and we will change this country so that it has a good health system, good education, good transportation and good security,” he said.
We came across this beautiful blue snake while walking the river trail this morning, and I have not been able to identify it. It was about 4-5′ long with pronounced scales and a very nice iridescent blue colour. If anyone knows what kind of snake it is, and have more information on it, please let me know!
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Blue Snake
