http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php Copyright 2013, Mexico Denis Mexico Denis en-US SPHPBLOG 0.4.8 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry120220-135935 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry120220-135935 Mexico Denis Mon, 20 Feb 2012 18:59:35 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=12&m=02&entry=entry120220-135935 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry120102-115314 Sri Lanka, Vietnam, Russia, Brazil, Hungary, Austria, Luxembourg and Morocco.
Because of the international mix of visitors, breakfast conversations are often extremely interesting. And the breakfast are darn good as well!]]> http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry120102-115314 Mexico Denis Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:53:14 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=12&m=01&entry=entry120102-115314 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry110628-155349 Carlos smiled and said "buen comida" or "good eating". The volleyball-sized nest would provide enough wasp larva to feed about six people after the larva had been removed and toasted on a comal (a type of frying pan). Eaten with green chiles and handmade tortillas... a real feast. Even Jenny who doesn't eat a lot of things, seemed to almost licking her lips. They called it "ek"...which sounded to me the same as the Ek in Ek Balam. Mayan is a tonal language somewhat like Chinese. So what sounds to me all the same...ek... means, with different tones, "black" or "shining star" or "toasted wasp larva". It is only a certain kind of wasp that is eaten this way. So I told them, I would like to try it when the opportunity presents itself.]]> http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry110628-155349 Mexico Denis Tue, 28 Jun 2011 19:53:49 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=11&m=06&entry=entry110628-155349 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100929-143006 denis@casahamaca.com.

I took a few photos but did not bother to post them because it just looks like jungle...
no outstanding trees, rock formations, etc. The only "thing" on the property is the old well.
It is a dug well and about 20 meters deep. ]]> http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100929-143006 Mexico Denis Wed, 29 Sep 2010 18:30:06 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=10&m=09&entry=entry100929-143006 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100927-203735 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100927-203735 Mexico Denis Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:37:35 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=10&m=09&entry=entry100927-203735 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100917-131723 Here's the link to the interview.]]> http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100917-131723 Mexico Denis Fri, 17 Sep 2010 17:17:23 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=10&m=09&entry=entry100917-131723 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100915-151454
"Under the relentless pressure of competition from the USSR and its associated states, the Earth's Western culture had undertaken to support a permanent war economy, under the burden of which its traditional libertarian political institutions were steadily eroded away. By the beginning of the twenty-first century it was no longer realistically possible to see any difference between the rival cultures, although their outward forms of government continued to be called by different names. Both were police states in which the individual citizen had lost all right to juridical defense, and both operated under a totally controlled economy. In the West, the official term for this form of public policy was "anti-Communism"; in the East it was called "anti-Fascism," and both terms were heavily laden with mob emotion. The facts of the matter, however, were that neither state was economically either fascist or communist, and that as economic systems neither fascism nor communism has ever been tried in recorded Terrestrial history."

The USSR went away, but the USA are (sic) still in a war economy and eroding more individual rights every day... little by little so that most of us don't even notice the loss. And "mob emotion"... just read the paper/internet and/or the TV news any day of the week. Maybe they haven't yet heard in Washington that the USSR dissolved some years ago. Or, just maybe, we have had to find a new global evil to justify our actions and priorities and prejudices.]]> http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100915-151454 Mexico Denis Wed, 15 Sep 2010 19:14:54 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=10&m=09&entry=entry100915-151454 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100831-180405 ]]> http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100831-180405 Mexico Denis Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:04:05 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=10&m=08&entry=entry100831-180405 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100831-180023 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100831-180023 Mexico Denis Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:00:23 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=10&m=08&entry=entry100831-180023 http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100521-140454
I really liked it but various people told me it was too much! So I had it pained over with another mural of Palenque after an original by Catherwood. This morning I came across the above photo and remembered just how much I like the original mural. So I am offering room and board at Casa Hamaca to someone who can "strip" the new mural, exposing the old one.
Not sure if they were done with oil-based or water-based paints. Not sure of the period of time between paintings. Not sure of many of the details. However, if you (or someone you know) might be interested in this project, contact me at denis@casahamaca.com or at denislarsen@yahoo.com. Thanks for any leads.

The same place I found the photo of the old mural, I found a photo of the gardens taken in July 2007. From the same vantage point, now you cannot see the main building of Casa Hamaca... that's how much the garden has grown. Here's the "Then" photo.
]]> http://casahamaca.com/pblog/index.php?entry=entry100521-140454 Mexico Denis Fri, 21 May 2010 18:04:54 GMT http://casahamaca.com/pblog/comments.php?y=10&m=05&entry=entry100521-140454