Thanks, in part to two different    Facebook pages, a hiking trail in Sibulan, which ends in an area called Puncak Tanawan, is becoming ...

In spite of the fact that I was born and raised in the Southern United States, and that I have one branch of ancestors who were Georgia w...

I spent New Year's eve in much the same way as I spent Christmas eve. My wife, my son and myself attended late Mass at San Antonio de...

The porker seen on the right side in the photo - nearest the lock - is named George. George does not have much longer in this world. We...

I noted in a blog post from Saturday that the fee for my application for conversion from probationary resident to permanent resident at ...

Today, June 13 is the feast day of St Anthony of Padua and like everyone else in Sibulan, we will have Lechon Baboy for the celebratio...

In a recent blog post, a friend wrote of two roosters owned by his nephew and niece, and the roosters' ultimate demise. Spoiler alert! ...

Saturday morning, after being cooped up all week, my wife and I really wanted to get out and about. My wife had found a photo of the Man...

Today is my 64th birthday, and to celebrate, my son and I went to the gym . In addition to our workout, I wanted photos. I brought along...

Late yesterday afternoon, we took our butternut squash plants out to our property in Magatas where we had recently cleared alway some ...

The top photo was originally posted on April, 07. The lower photo shows the results of a minor clean-up done on the 8th. Obviously, w...

I mentioned in an earlier post that, in addition to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's, The Gulag Archipelago , I was simultaneously reading o...

Due to changes being made in the Filipino school year, this past Wednesday was the start of J.P.'s summer vacation. He doesn't ret...

It's been a long time since I've made a nanner puddin'. To those of you who do not speak Southern, that's a banana puddin...

There is a small part of me that can empathize with Ben Affleck, who discovered, via his participation in the PBS documentary series “Find...

Back in the United States, during a limited time frame, I was able to go outside beside the house and pick from plums off one of the two ...

According to the shipping company's website, we have balikbayan boxes in Manila waiting to be shipped here to us in Sibulan. No word, as...

Here in Sibulan, we don't really have what one would call a grocery store. We do have a farmer's market where one can buy fresh frui...

They say, "Old habits die hard", and I can certainly attest to that. During the last two years of my nineteen year stint with Mo...

This being Philippines, and not the South Eastern United States, we’re not limited in our choices of Catholic Churches where we can attend...