COVID – 19 Ecuador Quarantine Part 3
The featured image photo was created by Cotacachi photographer Susan Bridenstine. She took the photo of Cotacachi playground equipment designated as dangerous sums up the COVID -19 threat.
Please watch the video below from a friend and practicing attorney in Ecuador. This is serious folks the government wants us all to stay safe and flatten the curve.
Expat Tips (click) Legal consequences of not staying home after the Ecuadorian quarantine.
I am up usually at 5 am to take Winky Boy out for his potty routine. What I notice is how incredibly quiet everything is with just the birds singing their early morning chorus of hopeful songs, roosters sending their alarm out that morning is approaching and tiny frogs chirping near the pond. The hill is not alive with music nor are dogs sounding their alarms of approaching folks, no street noise. The silence is unnerving. The yard is filled with the sweet fragrance of night-blooming jasmine whose blossoms have survived since the weekly yard crew is absent. The paradise in the garden is in full bloom with plants and flowers. The lawn and plants grow so tall since unattended that it is starting to look like a jungle. Yesterday I was in the backyard and heard what sounded like a mechanical sound. Geez, it was a swarm of bees hovering over the avocado blooms. Bees are so welcome in our gardens! Our trees are providing us with a generous amount of lemons, figs, oranges, and avocados. The peach and orange are slow to produce this year. Today I will plant some vegetable seeds in hopes of an early crop.
Usually, around 2 pm the silence changes and is filled with the blare of sirens which is a reminder that the curfew has started! We remain secluded behind the walls of our home called the Alamo. I am so glad we have the tall walls and gate. So many of the gringo’s feel they are privileged and do not follow the rules. Do they not understand the rules are to protect us? They brag on Facebook how they skirted around the rules. These are the same folks that do not pay their HOA fees and are rude beyond belief.
Plus I am hooked on watching Chef Michel Symon prepare a daily recipe using ingredients out of your pantry. He produces the videos in his home kitchen sometimes with his house slippers on and threats that he will one day be in pajamas’. Yes, we are all in this together and light heart humor is needed. Every morning and evening I study Spanish on Duolingo. But by the time evening settles in I am ready for a glass of wine and cruise the internet, youtube, and watch a Netflix movie or movie on Amazon Prime. You might wonder if we are bored and so far on day 18 as I am writing this we are staying busy and the time is flying by for us.
Y’all Stay Safe
Texas Annie Ecuador
