I’d like to thank Lady Glamis for introducing me to onetruemedia.com. She said it was easy, and I had so much fun selecting the music and the photos. It didn’t take long and it was FREE. Try it, and I’d love to see and hear what you think of the program. These photos were taken last year in May when I went back for a visit on the island of Ambergris Caye. My snippet of our life below is from the mainland where we lived for the first two months.
Duke and I made an agreement. He would put clean sheets on our bed while I scrubbed the dirty dishes and pans with our sulfur reeking well water.
Hearing his snores all the way from the living room, I tiptoed towards our bedroom where I found him collapsed in bed. To my horror I saw the pale yellow sheets stretched over our uneven mattress. Instead of using our soft California sheets, Duke had grabbed the itchy polyester set from the top open shelf. Those were infested with gecko, mice and cockroach poop and despite my sweaty body, I refused to place a millimeter of my skin inside them. How could he not smell them?
There was only one thing to do. I had to wake him up.
“Those aren’t the sheets I asked you to put on the bed Duke,” I whispered in his ear.
“What?”
“I’m sorry, but I refuse to sleep in those icky sheets.”
“They’re clean” he said.
“No, they’re filthy. I won’t sleep in them. I want the ones from California.” So Duke got out of bed and helped me change them without a single complaint. Had he woken me up to change the sheets, I’d have been so mad.
Has something like this ever happened to you? How would you react?
I’d love to hear your stories, comments or any other questions related to this topic. I’d like to get a discussion going on BELIZE BUZZ Wednesday.
Thanks.
I love this! Isn’t it amazing all the gadgets that are available? I tried to email you but it was returned to me as undeliverable. I used the email agutsywriter@gma.il.com. Anyway,
thanks for visiting my blog, A Fitness Minute. So, you were a personal trainer. You look like you are still in good shape. How did you happen to find my blog? I would love for you to write a guest post on my blog. It can be anything about exercise, fitness or health. It can be funny or not, up to you. Let me know if you are interested.
Pat
A Fitness Minute with Pat
Yes, it would be fun to talk about fitness on your blog, especially how I managed in Belize to stay fit at rusty old gyms.
Great to read about all your adventures in the last week. How did the article turn out? Or has it not been published yet?
It sounds like Duke and I have a lot in common! At least until you woke him up. I’d have just rolled over and gone back to sleep. I too am an Orange County escapee! ~ jb///
Love the pictures! Yes, things like this have happened to me a lot and my husband reacts the same, he always just gets out of bed to help me. Another good guy!
Belize looks wonderful! You must miss it at times.
As for sleeping in poopy sheets – I know all about that from travelling around Asia. I even got scabies from dirty sheets in China once or twice.. and believe me, that is no fun!
I once found rats and their babies nesting in my quilt. What have you found in your sheets in Belize?
Oh boy! My husband takes care of all kinds of critters, except spiders which he leaves to me.
Things I have found in, on, or under my bed while living in the jungle:
mice
snakes (more than once)
lizards
centipede
tarantula
and even the old chief of the tribe!
What a beautiful video! I can see the love you have for the place you lived.
Hmm, I would be upset, I think. Sheets are hard to change when you’re tired. Wow! That was nice of him to do that for you. So why had you kept the icky sheets?
So glad you liked onetruemedia. I need to do some more on there. Thank you for sharing!
I am the human teddy bear for my husband. He seems to think I can be positioned however he chooses in the middle of the night. Most of the time I don’t even wake up, but when I do, oh, Katie bar the door. Not a happy camper, this one. He’s learned to tread more softly and turn more carefully, I’ll give him that.
I nominated you for a Lemonade Stand Award because I really really enjoy your blog. When you get a sec, please stop by mine to “pick it up”!
Well, no, I don’t live in the jungle, so things like that do not happen to me. Except one thing maybe? My husband SNORES, just like yours! And he’s a good guy, just like yours!
Beautiful! You are so lucky to be able to see this every day. Absolutely fantabulous scenery!!
I enjoyed the pictures. Thanks for sharing. Yucky to the sheets. How did they get so full of the yuck stuff, anyway?
Gutsy, my goodness the pictures are great. So natural and really capture the mood of the scene. Brilliant. I must try this program.
Might I add that you look like one tough cookie lifting weights.
Loved the images — super job; the place looked wonderful.
Clean sheets — an important consideration.
poopy sheets…not nice but good you woke Duke…
I’ve heard mice in a hotel room, seen spiders and other not so nice to sleep with things but not poopy sheets…
Walls, wall papers, floors, carpets etc. – in bad or very bad condition in India…mold…oh, that’s it. Enough of that… 🙂
Greetings from Cairo!
I don’t know how calm I would have been…how nice!
If I explained how dirty the sheets actually were, my husband would have helped change them without complaint. he hates things to be dirty like that.
I’m so frustrated! I can’t see it! I keep clicking on your nose and everywhere else and nothing moves.
As for your story about the nasty bed sheets, well yes, I would have done the same thing and my dh would have also just helped and get another set on without complaining! (I guess we both have winners.) And what have I found in my/our bed? Do your really want to know? All right: we were living in Kenya, went on safari, leaving the key with a caretaker. We came back one night late, crawled into bed, woke up itching. Turned out, our bed had been used. And used. You can guess how. And it took weeks to get rid of the bed bugs . .. You asked for it! 😉
About how the dogs look in Belize…On a medical mission trip there in 2007, I happened upon a dog looking just how you described. The local RN with me started speaking to the dog, asking how he was doing, and petting his lumpy, partially bald, bug-bitten back. I asked “Was he sick?” and she replied “Not really sick, but he had an STD so I shared some of our penicillin with him, and now he is all better.”
Imagine that!
CAROL