A Full Recovery

There is a park and a little league baseball stadium within a few blocks of our house and we've been taking Dora there so she can fetch her ball a few times and then be tired the rest of the day. When she's outside and off her leash she really only has one speed, though, and that's crazy.

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Family SUV

After my bike got stolen, I searched for a while and finally found a used one, but it was definitely a fixer-upper. I ended up sinking about $7 into major repairs. It's nice to get to school faster especially now that it's rainy and since the nearest place to buy agua pura is about 6 blocks away I've learned how to balance 5-gallon bottles of water on the bike frame. When not carrying water, Holly is re-learning to balance herself there because she's gotten rusty after three months without a bike.

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Bacterial Infection

Holly is sick with some weird bacterial infection, but not the same kind that I know and love. I hope these pills (2x a day for 14 days) make her better. So far mixed results. She has a weird taste in her mouth that is "like letting a malaria pill dissolve on [her] tongue."

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Another Mural

Even though some clever theives ripped the Feliz Cumpleaños Crab off of Holly's bulletin board, it has largely been spared the fate of most murals in the schools. Here's Romel inspecting the damage to one at my school:

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The Mural

Someone at Holly's school noticed that she had a talent for being manipulated into doing things that she doesn't want to do and asked her to "help" work on a mural commemorating the staff birthdays for the rest of the year. She ended up working on it all alone and worked really hard on it just to spite them: Sadly, my favorite part, the Feliz Cumpleaños Crab©, was shamelessly stolen from the teachers' lounge. Holly claims that the scandal has forced her into early mural-making retirement, but I suspect that in February, we'll have a new mural to show you.

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