September Evening

No power yesterday.  Hell of a storm around 5 pm, heavy winds, thunder & lightening up the mountain.
Cooking Fresh Tuna in the dark, just like the good old days ....
Downton Abbey on the computor with battery charge, so it isn't all that bad, except no fan. 
The rain cools us off real good, but it doesn't take long to get back up to muggy and steamy.

Somehow the power came back on around 2 am,are they really up there in the Jungle in the middle of the night ?? I guess so, Himito does it all the time !!!

The ocean is brown, no relief there.  If it doesn't rain for a few days it can clean itself up pretty good, but
with rain everyday, you don't want to get in ....trees, branches and all, logs, and dirt , coconuts floating around like little heads bobbing around.  Whatever falls or gets thrown in the Canyon, will make it's way to the ocean, eventually.  Unleass you have people like Jim & Rich cleaning out the creek by Casa Vieja, one
year they collected 70 bags !!  Rich is gone, and now Jim pays Jose to clean it up once a week.
There is less and less garbage every year, a very good sign.  It also has made a huge difference once we got  weekley garbage pick up. 

Every Thursday at 7 am, we all haul our garbage to the pier, to be brought over to Boca.  It's quite the Social Scene ...wheelbarrows, dogs, kids, men & women ....some days the boat is full to the brim, and how
they keep all those bags on board is beyond me .  Sometimes one falls off the front, but not very often,
thankfully.

Poor Jose has been fighting an infection in his leg recently, so not able to work.  His wife explained to me it's something that will heal itself at home, with bed rest and keeping it elevated, the Cure All Lime, and frog juice; Live Frog Juice!!

Get a live frog from the creek, wash it off good, then rub it over the infected area .... once a day !!
It seems you will need a new frog every day, since after the treatment, the frog will take a hop or two
then drop dead !! Fortunately, we have no shortage of frogs ....unless Jose needs them all !

Count down to October.  It is so quiet here, it can get deafing.  Everyine is hot, tired and ready to put
some clothes back on.  We are ready to dry out our lives !!

Slowly the part timers will start to arrive. Already many have their return dates and calling us for wish lists from Trader Joes, Whole Foods, etc.  At this point it seems i crave very little from the North, making my
home here and adapting pretty good.  I always want the Toms toothpaste though ( not Cinamon ) and
i miss the Saturday Globe & Mail , N.Y Times comes in second best.

I'm going to get working on a poem about October, the anticipation of feeling normal again. 
Truly, at times it's so hot and humid for so many days, it's hard to feel normal, and you can tell by the looks
on the faces of the people passing by, they're not feeling normal either !!

But, soon, very very soon, we will be enjoying warm sunny days, swimming in the ocean, soft blankets on the bed, and all the men will have put their shirts back on !!