What's your average daily routine here in the Philippines?

Time will tell......still 2-3 years in the rat race to be run.

 

Time waits for no man!!!! besides it's more fun in the Philippines

 

We finished the house build in Feb 2020 expecting family and friends to visit.
....That didn't happen ....
So our routine is to wake up and enjoy a quiet coffee
Feed the fur babies
Read
House maint (good size property and doing the yardwork helped me loose weight and stay occupied).
Complaining about government.
Try to cook something "different"
Nap
Coffee again


Now - 2 sets of puppies later
We don't complain about government - waste of time
We miss some Covid restrictions actually - cancel fiesta and No karaoke to name a few.
Taking things slow and don't plan to far ahead simply because of the culture.

Developing another property now- keeps us busy.
More cold water
More cups of coffee (brewed and black is prefered)

 

Agreed

 

No 2 days are the same but they all start with waking up (hopefully) - around dawn. SO goes and tends to her orchids while I grab a coffee and get online for a couple of hours work then read the news, do the crossword and check out the UK horse racing results.

Asaswa's now in the kitchen making cakes or pies so I go for a wander round with the dogs (2 x Belgian Malligators) and have a word with the cows - at least they look as if they're listening. Back for a 2nd coffee.

Another hour or so of work then another meander - this time talk to the bull. If he looks mean or gets a hard-on I'm gone!

Lunch is a bowl of fruit and the afternoon could be pottering about in the veg garden deciding what to do/build/plant next or drive over to the farm and see how the grass is growing while the malli's get to swim in the river.

Afternoons are flexy, just do whatever suits the day but always finish it with an ice cold San Miguel with the boys.

Dinner is time to crack a bottle of red and put the world to rights.

We only need to hit the bright lights of Dumaguete every 8-10 weeks for shopping so normally make a weekend of it.

And that about sums it up - no clocks or watches, no real routine just take each day as it comes.

It's more laid back in Las Filipinas!

 

We got another 7 years before we retire there. I can't say what my day will be, but I can say what I envision it being.

Getting up in the morning drinking coffee and doing my routine internet things for an hour or two. Then doing some exercise. A rinse off then doing whatever the wife wants. If nothing then I will just grab a book. Yard/garden work at some point, shoot a few hoops and +/or swim a few laps. Feed the chickens, maybe a pig or goat,play with the dog. Come evening watch some tv, continue reading my book. Maybe shoot a little pool or darts. Every day a little different. These are just things I know I will do.

To make it all happen I still need to put in a pool and build my man-cave. Gonna house my approx 1200 book library, a pool table and dart board, and at a minimum a treadmill. The basketball court should be built when we go there next month. This way no matter what happens we have everything we need/want.

 

Woke up, fell out of bed
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup.

Yep... that's about it.

 

You definitely got a budding talent as a songwriter there!

And looking up, I noticed I was late
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the baht bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

But not in the Philippines (yet)