Both volcanoes Poas and Turrialba, in the middle Barva Volcano.

Volcan Turrialba

From the science cam this morning.

Volcan Turrialba

From the science cam this morning.

Turrialba Volcano from my dining room this morning.  Beautiful.....

The volcano this morning at 5:39 AM from my kitchen window.  It is a beautiful sight to see.

Volcano Turrialba is a beautiful site seen from our farm.  This photo was taken by the volcano cam today.

For about 4 years I have been taking photos of Volcan Turrialba from our home.  Now the Volcano Cam is taking photos every 10 seconds and I take screen shots of the cam.  This is this mornings cam shot.  These are exciting times as the volcano is really putting out, and the view is spectacular.

The beautiful volcano as seen from our farm.

Yes, that is smoke coming out of the volcano. Blue sky, a backdrop of the beautiful volcano, horses, and a pretty chica. This is perfect!

Our Turrialba volcano as seen from the farm.

The farm view on a really clear morning, the Turrialba volcano is in the distance.

The farm and our home.

Looking at the volcano from the farm.

My daughter said that people may think our back to basics lifestyle is too rural, too basic and therefore friends may not want to come visit us. We think that Erika is wrong, we believe that people will want to see successful off-grid living. Perhaps they will enjoy the high quality of our organic lives without utility bills.

If our extreme self-sufficient lifestyle keeps our friends away, perhaps they were not really our friends. What do you think? Please comment, we would like your thoughts.

Our temperature was about 60 degrees at 6AM; it was another beautiful blue sky morning as I heard horses running up the driveway. The Rottweiler’s bark and chase everything so I ran out the front door but not before they heard the beating of hooves on the inclined rock driveway. Ms. Perla, the hunter, is always at the forefront of a pack chase. Sure enough they all went flying down the driveway barking and the horsemen had the good sense to turn around and retreat.

Yesterday Perla was hunting giant iguanas in the bushes. When she gets the scent of wild animals she comes alive and sniffs every inch of dirt and plant material until she finds something. Beware, do not violate Ms. Perla’s territory! Her house, her yard, her people, it is all about her.

Here is a view of the Turrialba Volcano from space thanks to the folks at Wikipedia. http://www.wikimapia.org/#y=10019906&x=-83762598&z=14&l=0&m=a This is very cool. I found this link today while researching the last eruption of Volcan Turrialba.

Love the internet, here I am with really, really slow speed dial up, in a rainforest and I can get this kind of information at the speed of copper wires. Amazing. Even more amazing is that people are finding their way to my blog, allowing me to share my world with their families and friends.

We went on a day trip to Volcan Turrialba this weekend in our new 1989, 200,000+ miles on it Isuzu Rodeo 4 x 4. What a car, we made it up and back down with no problem as we passed cars, trucks and even a brand new Toyota 4 x 4, diesel, crew cab, boiling over. When I say we passed them, it was in 1st gear and they were not moving. This drive is torture on a vehicle and it's driver. We now have a new appreciation for our Rodeo.

The farm land on the sides on the volcano are lovely with rich soil, potatoes, cabbage, cows and lilies. The road is vertical and a switchback style. At times I thought I may have been in the Smoky Mountains or even New Hampshire. It has been usually dry this dry season and the dust was thick as we climbed. You can walk down to the smoldering crevice but I thought it looked uninviting and like the face of the moon. The little clouds you see are smoke/poisonous gas rising up. There is an outhouse at the top, but you will only want to use it if you are desperate. The weekly newspaper is hanging inside to be used as toilet paper, seat liner or both.

You have seen this view before in other pictures that I have posted, but not from this elevation. This is looking down across our land and towards the Turrialba volcano. The clouds are in the way of a clear picture of the volcano. We have set up the telescope in our living room and we are starting to explore the volcano via the telescope

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This is the view across the river from our future home site. It is protected primary forest. If we turned 45 degrees to the left we would be looking down and across the valley at the Turrialba volcano.

This is our newest horse at the farm. In the background you can see the Turrialba volcano on this beautiful day. You are looking down and across the Turrialba valley. What a beautiful view.