Yesterday I rescued yet another of god's creatures. Turns out this one is a real dandy. It's a Giant Kinfisher chick. I need someone to take care of it. I'm guessing it's about 2 weeks short of fledging out completely. How or where this woman on the street got the bird is beyond me. They are very rare here in these parts. Anyway..... I'm headed to the states and I need someone to take care of it til it can fly. Randy and Kathy will gladly let us release it on their property at the lake when the time is right. Any ideas??? Anyone here in the Granada area interested in helping?

As we regularly hear about "press repression" in Nicaragua, this bit of regional news seems to add a bit of perspective. Much like the article about dealing with mining activists in El Salvador, murder is an effective way of eliminating those ongoing complaints.

In any case, I am glad I run NicaLiving and not HondLiving.

As we have Nicaragua and Guatemala covered, I decided adding this article about mining in El Salvador fit right in. The similarity is another Canadian company. The main difference is that it sounds like murder is the solution.

From the article:

A lot of new alternatives have popped up since I built my first PV installation 20 years ago on a beach on the west side of the Sea of Cortez.

For example:

http://cgi.ebay.com/STACKABLE-POWER-INVERTER-2500-5000-W-24V-DC-TO-240V-...

I had 5 Kyocera panels, a Trace 1224 (or 2412), a C30 charge controller, and 10 Marine Group 75 batteries from Cosco (think it was calledc Price Club back in those days). I had a small gas generator to back the system up.