Rocking Pooch

People here are very sociable and love to visit each other, as well as watch the world go by as they sit on their front porches. Most of the houses built here have that in mind as almost each home has a porch, no matter how tiny, equipped with rocking chairs, plastic chairs, benches, or anything that would enable people to sit, talk or play dominos or cards.

I love porch culture. It makes it easier to get to know your neighbours as you can wave and say hello as you walk around the neighbourhood.

It seems that this culture of sitting out on one’s porch is so ingrained in the mindsets of many that  it has now been extended to the animals as well. My camera caught this napping dog by surprise one hot afternoon in  a neighbourhood somewhere out there…..rocking away on the porch thinking that nobody was watching.

Taking a break one hot afternoon
Taking a break one hot afternoon

Christmas Roast

In this country, roast pork is the thing to eat on Christmas Day. Also, like all other latin american countries, Christmas Day falls on the 24th of December and not the 25th. On the 23rd, as we drove to the nearest large city through rural roads to get some last minute Christmas groceries, we saw whole pigs everywhere.

They were all dead and were either being prepared to be roasted over an open fire pit or were already in the cooking process. We were told that last year, an uproar ensued when there were not enough pigs to go around the whole nation and some people had to forgo their leg of pork at Christmas dinner.

As for me, I am just glad I do not eat pork in any way shape or form and after having seen how they prepared the pigs for roasting, it is not too farfetched an idea for me to become a vegetarian…..

Disclaimer: Please know that there is no intent to offend anyone with this photo. 

Whole pigs skewered for roasting
Whole pigs skewered for roasting

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