mexico arrival

Well,
Thank God the lawn season is over, I already got my deer on opening day, equipment is put away, business was taken care of ... That means Mexico!!!!!

After arriving in Huatulco by a puddle jumper plane I got to see all my old friends from Growers First coffee and had a great day with them.. I then went out to the CAFE farm in the jungle of Pluma Hidalgo to see Frank and Mary lou.. Looks like I never left, except the jungle is starting to take over the coffee and is slowly returning to a beautiful secondary forest which is almost impenetrable and too steep to enter in most areas.. My papaya trees are growing good, the bananas are more than plentiful, eating almost 10 a day, atleast... Wild roasted chestnuts are awesome... The locals are still very nice and fun to talk to... the adult men way less than 100 pounds but are strong as an ox and can carry there wait and then some down or up hills.. amazing!! The rivers are mostly destroyed due to massive mountain road construction techniques that are primive and destructive at best,,, but the road is much Better!!! and atleast passible... except on 3 areas of pavement of which one hole is about 20 ft in diameter with a hole in it that probably goes down 1000ft ... the only markings are a couple of twigs otherwise it is an accident waiting to happen over and over... The heavy rains from the hurricanes have caused massive landslides and road destruction.. I will rest a while so I can think straight and write on the ardous labor that we have down moving rivers and constructing a water tank in the path of river.. which was exhausting...and of the worst forms of manual labor... shoveling 8 yards of rock out of tank with a river flowing in one end and you have to stay in a bent postion shoveling in waist deep water, rock, mud , with homemade pumps sucking water out of one to make it possible to work... more details on that later