Sunday, January 5, 2014

Back trouble, Blood on the deck and Dulce

12/5/13

San Carlos bound! After a short 2 hour trip we pulled into a San Carlos gas station, Marcus got out of the car and he could hardly walk. Shortly before we arrived in San Carlos Marcus sneezed and felt a shooting pain in his lower back, He has had back trouble for years, and hours sitting in a car it not good for him. This was something much more severe than he had experienced before. We drove another 10 minutes and arrived at our friend Chuck and Judi's house. Thank goodness for Chuck and Judi! If not for their hospitality, we would have had to rent a room because there was no way Marcus could climb up and down the ladder into the boat while we readied it for our trip, if we even were able to go, considering his condition.


We settled in and Marcus rested his back, hobbling around the best he could. He took hot baths, got a massage and treatment with an electronic neuro muscular stimulator. He slowly improved and after a week, he had improved enough to start work on the boat. Seriously thought we might just be spending the winter in San Carlos!

We certainly didn't waste our recuperation time! Chuck took us fishing and we fished until I could not physically reel in any more fish!! The Bonita were running.













The next day Judi set up the canning gear, and away we went, we canned for hours and have the best canned tuna I have ever eaten.



We left the US so quickly I didn't get a chance to stock up on dark chocolate, but I did have some dark chocolate chips and had wanted to make home made peanut butter cups. This mix of dark and milk chocolate yumminess will hopefully get us through most of the season.  This recipe is a keeper!


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