Oistens

I didn't have to have the car today  - Yeah!!!  More time for me to get some things done around the home.  Catch up on my blogging! :)  Am I a recluse?  I wonder, because I sure enjoy my times of solitude.  I enjoy doing laundry, cooking, and making my home beautiful.  I decided to get my exercise for the day by walking down to Oistens Fish Market.  It is not that far of a walk.  It took about 20 minutes to walk down to it.  I have learned which counters to go to for fish such as red snapper or dolphin (people in the states call it mahi mahi, it definitely isn't flipper).  I wanted some dolphin for our supper tonight - so, I went to that counter.  I took a video of the lady cutting the dolphin up for me - that is the video you see at the beginning of this blog.  I picked up several limes to rinse the dolphin off with.  I didn't have to go to the super market for my vegetables, because there were several vendors right by the fish market.  I got 3 beautiful tomatoes, 2 onions, cabbage, 2 cucumbers and some papaya. Yum - we will have the papaya tomorrow morning for breakfast!  I will use the cabbage to make some slaw to go with the dolphin tonight.  And the onions are going in a squash soup that I will hopefully get around to making before the weekend arrives.  It is fun, this island.  I love being able to get all this fresh fish.  I didn't realize it, but Barbados is one of the highest countries in terms of how long people live!  I'm sure it is because of all this fresh fish and chicken.  Oh, on another note:  as I was walking home, I saw a mother hen with her chicks picking away for food in a neighboring yard.  You see this everywhere in Barbados.  Hens, roosters, and chicks roaming freely by the roadsides.  It is a wonder that there are not more dead birds in the streets - run over by the cars - but, there isn't.  Those birds know to stay out of the way.  But, it was fun watching them use their feet and scratch the dirt away to see if there was anything to eat underneath.  Even though I consider myself a country girl from Tupelo, Mississippi - I have never been around roosters and hens until now.  Gary and I are so amused by them.  They are fun to watch, especially on all those days when we are stuck in traffic trying to get Gary to work!  Also, I saw a guy with a surf board crossing the street - he was running across - and tried to jump the curb on the other side - he missed!!!  He doubled over in pain.  When I got up to where he was, I asked if he was ok - he said yes, that the board had saved him, but unfortunately the board had not fared as well.  I'm afraid he broke that board!  Well, that is all I know for today, here is a picture of what a dolphin looks like: