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14 hours ago, Bonnie said:

I just received my electricity bill from UF on which there is a credit labeled Fondo Tarifario de Occidente. My Spanish is pretty good, and I have access to some good translation machines, but I can't figure out what this is. Can anyone help, please?

Keith, For users of 400 kWh or more which they say is 80% of the users.  Wow.    Our bill averages at about 270 kWh or so.  That said we had a tag added to our bill that was labeled as " guarantee of payment...additional deposit" .  Our usual $25 bill was over $60.  We paid it. More subsidy I guess  Keith.

Bonnie...did they explain it to you? Seems strange.

Looking north from Brisas towards Boquete...lots of smoke and getting worse.  Any information?

Case of mistaken identity no doubt.   Why rob the prosecutor ?   Failure of robbery 101.

Yup....wind here has blown a few settlers right outta here and back home.  Crazy wild wind. Every year we say...WOW..this has to be the worst wind ever.   Then it stops.   Then the silence...another WOW.   Then the rain.  

We take for granted this fine public library I think because for us...it's common to have a nice lib ray in a community.  Well not so here.   We are totally blessed to not only have the facility but as well to have citizen who arrange cultural events, educational opportunities oft youth and resources in such a fine facility.  thank you

...so was that the two girls in the photo?

I had a long conversation with gentleman who is a veterinarian from Venezuela .  He recommended this attorney who was handling all his affairs.  His comment to me was the attorney was bright and honest.

That's funny. You'll know the gringos by the strong smell of stale beer with overtones of mouthwash smell.

I ordered it from Amazon.com

Filter AND change that dirty sock tied over your faucet for awhile. 

We are now using our 1700 gallon plastic pool for bathing, toilet flushing, dish washing  and floor cleaning .   A few neighbors are using that pool water as well.  Our 600 gallon tank is approaching empty.  We've been using that tank water for cooking only.  I believe this is now day 4 without water in Brisas.  As it is we can probably last several more days.

Good time to enjoy the river at Canjelones !  

1 hour ago, TwoSailors said:

Anyone ever try this?

Something about the stale beer and mouthwash reminds me of college........................and, I don't remember any mosquitoes.

Bingo !  

2 hours ago, JudyS said:

$20 is really low.  If you have been under-paying, maybe they made an adjustment to bring the bill up to where it is supposed to be.

We've been here 9 years.  Electric usage has been the same.  Bill has always run between $17- 25.00   Until our bills started being delivered to the wrong houses and each of us paid our neighbors bill ( except ours ) ...we are never late on payment.  The bill was stuck under the door...wasn't the wind.  Now we all look at the name on the bill.  I guess we're suck with the additional deposit.  

Well interesting.  Last month the hard copies of the bills in our neighborhood got delivered to the wrong houses.  So we paid the neighbor's bill , the neighbor paid his neighbor's bill...etc.  none of us looked at the name on the bill itself.  Ok so our bill payment was one month late because of that situation.  Took us awhile to figure out what happened.  So maybe that's it.

On the high electric bill.  We had an electrician re-wire our main fuse box.  At the time we had that done the electrician told us that when it is off balance as ours was it can effect the amount of your bill ( I have not a clue on how that works).   It's rare we have a bill over $25/month.  We use ceiling fans continuously.  Most of the time the computer is left on.  TV is on most of the time. We do have an electric security system but I doubt that draws much.  We do laundry once a week usually.  One month we had a guest who was doing wash almost every other day and that almost doubled our electric bill.

The charge:

ajuste de Deposito de garantia ............................ $41.11

Our bills usually are around $20.00 a month and we pay on a regular basis...monthly.  We have lived here now almost 9 years.  Can somebody explain this charge?

"Produce growers of the Chiriqui Highlands have decided to stop sending legumes to Panama City due to the fact the supermarkets continue to import products without governmental sanctions  such as onions and potatoes and their crops and going to waste causing them huge monetary losses. They had threatened to close the road to the Highlands, but instead, they are stopping shipments of all legumes to the city until their situation is resolved."

Interesting.  Thanks Keith.  If interruption of traffic is something that is actually against the law here...how can they be doing that right there where the police are?

Yes.... big dreams.  

Today there were about 20 cars and trucks pulled off on the side of the road.  Nobody in them.  I assume they were ready to be towed off.

Well...the road work should add an additional clog for awhile.  Noon time it's crazy. 

A little bit of everything.  They show a retiree park, a childrens' park , a restaurant , a functioning replica of the Panama Canal......day time activities and night time lights and fancy colored displays.  Mighty fancy Bonnie.  We'll probably both be dead and gone before it's completed.

Mighty ambitious ! I thought there was a water shortage.   For me?, I'd be happier with a juvenile detention and rehab facility.

We had such a great turn out and as well a get together with the set up there my hunch is a repeat might be in the plan.    Many folks had lunch at the picnic tables and got together out there. Cool breeze and a beer..great combo....!   I had a chance to meet quite a few new folks and hug a few old friends I don't see often.   All in all it worked out real well.  Of course Rodny was center stage and great at explaining his services to those with questions.  Personally I look forward to a repeat.

Alison

I agree.  Scare tactics.  Just the title tells you that.