Stormy Weather

Strange weather continues, in Yelapa and across the Globe.  Rain, overcast, humid.  The surf

is high and strong, and that's been the norm for over a week ! This lack of sun creates

Yelapa Laundry Woes .... at least my house has some sun during the day, when there is

sun, but I still play clothesline tag. It can take days for sheets and towels to dry.

I half regret not accepting my Dad's offer of a Dryer, to go with my Washing Machine

Birthday gift a few years back, but i mange to carry on, at the clothesline. 

It's all part of the bigger question ..." What do you do all day ?" ...

Well. When you live on Yelapa time, everything takes longer, and is more challenging.  Like

laundry.  Women were washing clothes on the rocks in the river, even when I arrived, in

1999, so we are progressing, slowly.

A lot of time is spent with the broom and the mop. Floors, paths, stairs, accumulate sand

 dead bugs, fish blood, lizard poo.... etc. !  Spider webs and termite trails delay the tasks at

hand .... where did I put the ant poison ??

There are not enough hours in the day to accomplish all I set out to do, hence, Yelapa Time.

You learn to chill out and go with the flow....

Another boat hit a Whale !!  Not a Water Taxi but a local ponga, coming back late from Tuito 

Guadalupe Festival.  I heard the motor was lost and the boat tipped over and there were

quite a few people, including children.  Miraculously  

And Dishes !!  I learn a lot by visiting local womens' kitchens.  Why the extra bowl of soap

at the sink, huge bottle of bleach, why no sponges?  They use buckets and huge cement

sinks full of water for rinsing and recycling, dishes piled high like sculptures, drip drying.

Filling the old cement sink is a first task of the day for many women, for many reasons.

Making sure they have enough for the day, in case the haphazard water line breaks from a

fallen rock, or horse hoof, or  pressure build up, or reverse, no water in the river to feed the

line; letting the water warm with the sun during the day, since very few have hot water at

the kitchen sink ...and most households feed a small army, family or not ! 

I have hot water at my kitchen now.  It's a long, complicated, Yelapa Time Story, but I have

hot water , at least for now.  I was warming water on the stove for quite while ... seriously .


I heard another boat hit a whale.  Not a Water Taxi but a local ponga, coming back late from

Tuito Guadalupe Festival.  I heard the motor was lost and the boat tipped over.  There

were quite a few people on board, including children !! Miraculously, no one was injured,

at least not seriously.  How incredible is that ?  


The first Casita gusets of the New Year were very ill the 3rd night here, and spent their last

day in bed, poor flolks !  Consequently, the laundry piles up !!


The Yacht Club was closed this Saturday.  Perhaps do to chance of rain.  Not much fishing

going on as the ocean is too rough.  I have a wide open view of the Lagoon now, and have

been watching the constant action at the mouth of the river. Full in the morning, almost dry

in the afternoons.  Boats being pulled and pushed, in or out.  


There was another death of an elder this week.  I don't remember her name, but I will find

out.  To me she was a Dona, a testament to the Yelapa of old.  She made the best Huveos

Rancheros ( i think ) at the Waterfall.  She nurtured me more than once, even though

I never understood a word she said.  I was on the same Water Taxi a while back with her

and her husband.  She was really sick.  Very crippled up.  That was her last trip.  She

died in PV.  I'm grateful I got to see her again.


I have been adding photos to my Profile.  More coming soon.


Time to rotate the clothes lines .....

k