Internet Woes

more time for gathering flowers

So we are still here.  We are healthy, happy and now we have Internet. Maybe.  I have been out of touch because we haven't had internet and it is hard to find a place to sit for hours just to use interent.  Funny thing is we have had internet since July 1. Well the company said we did but our phone line was bad and so no working.  James spent many hours on the phone with the phone company and internet company.  He got lots of "thank you for calling, Mr. James"  but no results. 

we had more time for happy coffee

We even had the service techs come out a few times and look at the lines and router.... All pleasant kind men. Finally a nice lady told him we has used our internet all up.  "You have 3G and it is all gone.  Maybe August 1st will be better and stay good."  How did we use it up?  It never worked to use it up.  You see it is not about customer service here or competition.  It is much more laid back.  Why stress?  Its OK.  Our friend from Laos said when she called for Internet the man told her "Oh no you do not want this internet.  You get USB internet."  This was because he didn't want to come to her house to install it!  Maybe it's a South Asia thing....

This morning I got up and realized it was August.  Dare I try?  I did and so far its it working. And now we can get back to blogging about life in Bali.  Tropical living. Cremations. Ceremonies. Large bugs. Adventures.  This is as long as we do use up all our unlimited internet again.  Cause it can happen in this land of magic where dragons eat your money if you leave your bag on the

playing with kids

checking to see if internet is working....No. hmm back to using our imagination and reading books!

OH Bummer...

So we got a new place and it came with a cat.  Let me be more specific.  A sick looking, loud meowing, scabies carrying cat.  Our family loves cats.  We have a fabulous beast of a cat with 7 toes in the US.  When we left him in Vermont, he was contemplating taking down a moose.  Bali cats are good survivalist but not in the same way as rural US.
We talked as a family about what to do with the cat.  He only came around about 40% of the time to be fed and sleep on anything he could... particularly cloth.  The kids said he needed a name.  I suggested "Bummer" because it really seemed to fit but Vaughn said it should be a nice name like "Sweety Love".  Well lets take a look....

lets snuggle!!

 Yes, you can see maybe a different name would be more fitting.  James found a vet and made an appointment to take him in.  Of course Bummer/ Sweety Love took off.  He knew.   So then we decided to capture him next time he rocked up and take him in.  Finn trapped him in a box.  He and papa jumped on the scooter to go.  About 1 mile later Bummer said "Later dudes", broke out of the box, leapt off the moving bike and ran off.  WOW maybe we should have named him Super Hero....

gettin' comfy

2 days later he returned smoking a cigarette and said "I won't be coming round much anymore."  And that's the last we have seen of him...