Bella Gets Fruity

Pineapple Willy and Peseto

Off we went last night to Crazy Canucks, about 200 yards down the beach from our house, to hear "Pineapple Willy and the Heat." 

An elementary school principal?

We met up with Martine, Willy's wife, and her best friend Denice, the principal of Ambergris Caye Elementary School known as ACES. (Try to imagine your elementary school principal in a place like "Crazy Canucks"!) Also taking up barstool space were Kevin from London and Taff (rhymes with cough) from Wales who soon shall become island legends. They repeatedly asked about my aunts, Holly and Honey, who recently visited. Tom was repeatedly annoyed.


By the way, Friday is Karl's birthday (Karl is Pineapple Willy's real name), and there's going to be a surprise party for him at Canucks. Don't be alarmed: Karl is electronically challenged and will never see the announcements here or on Facebook. Tell your friends.

Afterwards, Tom and Kevin and Taff and I went a short golf cart ride away to Average Joe's for "Blues Monday." (Faithful readers will recall the rocking band "All Cayed Up"--and please say "key," not "kay.") That's were we met shy and reserved Tracy and Nyla from Grand Prairie, Alberta, Canada. Both women promised to remember the name of my blog and I promised to merely mention, not embarrass, them. I could identify them in much greater detail, but I'm sure the Grand Prairie banking and realty industries would be shocked if I did. 

Here's a snippet from the Alberta Province anthem.

"Snow-covered mountain tops,
Wheat fields and canola crops . . . ."

Doesn't that make you yearn to be back home in Alberta?

Guanabana (or guanaba or soursop)

Now to the fruit part: A few days ago our friend Obby bought us some guanabana juice from a street vendor. It was mixed with sugar and crushed ice, and it was delicious. Guanabana is also known as "soursop" which is a new buzz word for healthy-juice-that-cures-everything-including-cancer-but-the FDA-won't-let-us-say-that. I don't know about the health benefits, but it sure does taste good.

Backyard Noni Fruit

By the way, we have a noni tree growing in our back yard. The fruit is foul-smelling and sticky, and I seriously doubt there will ever be any commercial use for it unless there's some kind of multi-level distribution or something like that! Oh well, there are plenty of people who swear by it and make a ton of money marketing it.

Here's a shout out to our readers around the world--literally. We  have lots of daily hits in Russia. Who knew! A big thank you to them and all of you in cold places. We have had over 3,050 page views since January 17th, and readership is growing fast. Tell your friends. (I know, it sounds like I'm begging, but that's what dogs do.)




Y'all come visit. We'll go to Crazy Canucks for Pineapple Willy's birthday party and drink guanabana juice (or maybe just say "guanabana juice"). You're gonna love Belize!