The rain, the rain...
I am ashamed and how long I have gone without writing on here. The truth is...life that once seemed exotic now seems just like "life" and it seems odd to reflect on boring ol' life on here.
Not there aren't still amusing and bizarre moments here. For example: Recently, the school has encountered quite a cow problem. Almost daily we have a group of cows eating our playing field and leaving behind...evidence...which then the students must attempt to avoid while playing in said fields. In addition to cow evidence, we have a GIGANTIC fire ant mound in the middle of the field. GIGANTIC. Imagine a baseball pitcher's mound... then double it. It's about that big. The students like to stand on it and peer in and occasionally chase each other around and through ants on each other. Ah, the fun of school in the jungle!
We've been in something of a technological No Mans Land in our house lately. The alarm clock died AND the phone has gone funny. This wouldn't be such a big deal except that you have to drive two and half hours to buy either of these items (okay. I'm exagerating. You can in fact buy a phone in our local hardware store. But that's where we bought the phone that went all keflooey so I think it isn't advisable to buy another one there).
It's raining a whole heck of a lot lately. This year we apparently have a "real" rainy season. There are downpours here that would break downpour records, I'm sure of it. On Saturday my friend Gina and I were at the grocery store in Santa Elena. She parked her car DIRECTLY outside of the store (probably about ten feet from the entrence). We ran those ten feet to the car in a downpour and by the time we got to the car (about a millisecond after leaving the store) we were completly and totally drenched.
Now THAT is serious rain.
But luckily we have our wood burning stove and so we're nice and cozy inside.
The coyotes have just started howling their nightly song. At our old house, we heard howler monkeys. At this house, we hear coyotes. And capuchin monkeys. But no howlers. Interesting how the ecosystem varies from one spot to another here.
Not there aren't still amusing and bizarre moments here. For example: Recently, the school has encountered quite a cow problem. Almost daily we have a group of cows eating our playing field and leaving behind...evidence...which then the students must attempt to avoid while playing in said fields. In addition to cow evidence, we have a GIGANTIC fire ant mound in the middle of the field. GIGANTIC. Imagine a baseball pitcher's mound... then double it. It's about that big. The students like to stand on it and peer in and occasionally chase each other around and through ants on each other. Ah, the fun of school in the jungle!
We've been in something of a technological No Mans Land in our house lately. The alarm clock died AND the phone has gone funny. This wouldn't be such a big deal except that you have to drive two and half hours to buy either of these items (okay. I'm exagerating. You can in fact buy a phone in our local hardware store. But that's where we bought the phone that went all keflooey so I think it isn't advisable to buy another one there).
It's raining a whole heck of a lot lately. This year we apparently have a "real" rainy season. There are downpours here that would break downpour records, I'm sure of it. On Saturday my friend Gina and I were at the grocery store in Santa Elena. She parked her car DIRECTLY outside of the store (probably about ten feet from the entrence). We ran those ten feet to the car in a downpour and by the time we got to the car (about a millisecond after leaving the store) we were completly and totally drenched.
Now THAT is serious rain.
But luckily we have our wood burning stove and so we're nice and cozy inside.
The coyotes have just started howling their nightly song. At our old house, we heard howler monkeys. At this house, we hear coyotes. And capuchin monkeys. But no howlers. Interesting how the ecosystem varies from one spot to another here.
posted by Rebekah at 7:50 PM
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