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Ticuantepe, Managua Department, Nicaragua
@ISLANDERS
Member since 2010
CURRENT MISSION To learn to grow tropical plants, live in a new country, make friends, live in peace, walk in beauty, keep an open mind and an open heart, and to be kind. ABOUT ME Husband and I moved to Nicaragua from Vashon Island, near Seattle, in January 2016. Gardening is my passion and I want to import open pollinated varieties of plants to grow and share with my friends and neighbors and the country. To live in a little house on the campo with a horse and cart. To walk in beauty with an open mind and an open heart. Am learning Spanish, Qi Gong,
Interested in Dancing
Interested in Hiking
Interested in Music
Fluent in English
Why I'm on Couchsurfing
HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING Haven't yet, but wish to experience both sides COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE None yet, but hosted wwoofers for 4 years and loved it.
Music, Movies, and Books
Defiance; Mystery, Alaska; Men in Black; Funny Bones; Fresh; Pride and Prejudice; Vanity Fair; Pulp Fiction; LA Confidential; Mama Mia; the first half of Titanic; Get Shorty; The House of Flying Daggers; The Man Who Would be King; African Queen; Portrait of Jenny; The Major and the Minor; Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring; The 400 Blows; Strictly Ballroom; Shakespeare in Love; anything Baz Luhrman (we want more!!), Bull Durham, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Back to the Future (I only), Last of the Mohicans, Glory, Crash, Love Actually, Shanghai Triad, The Seven Samurai & anything samurai, esp. The Red Lion; Lord of the Rings, Hope and Glory, Raging Bull, Sense and Sensibility... Books: David's crazy about Xenophon and that wild adventure, Plato, Homer. I love a Yellow Raft on Blue Water; all the Patrick O'Brien seafaring books; David Copperfield; Huckleberry Finn; Love in a Cold Climate and the Pursuit of Love; Brat Farrar; The Ark; Betsy-Tacy books; A Painted House; Catch-22; Emily Dickinson's Collected Poems, ditto e.e. cummings; the New York Review of Books & the New Yorker; Catcher in the Rye; The Great Gatsby (really is a great book); everything by Theodore Dreiser; Also love Vegetable Gardening West of the Cascades (Steve Solomon) and Winter Gardening in the Pacific Northwest (Binda Colebrook), and Tasha Tudor's Garden. Not to mention Sunset's Western Garden Book and Taylor's Guide to Shrubs! But of all books Moosewood Cookbook & it's many progeny may be ultimate favorites.
One Amazing Thing I've Done
A cold sleety day in March on the tide flats of northern Washington state watching the snow geese come in, wave after wave after wave of snow geese filling the gray sky with shimmering, undulating white wings and deep wild cries, for hours and hours and hours. A single day and their cries are in my heart forever.
Teach, Learn, Share
organic gardening, US immigration law, quilting, ancient Latin and Greek, history etc. After 60 years of compulsive reading we know a bit about a lot of stuff.
What I Can Share With Hosts
Quiet respectful and intelligent conversation, tips on organic gardening, observations on life and cheerfully doing my share of the chores. I'm a pretty good vegetarian cook. I have a very kind heart.