.... I've seen rain ...

Yahoo ... Yippee ... Hurray ... Bravo !!


A little rain Thursday night , a little more Friday night , and our first downpour Saturday night . Thunder on Friday evening and finally lightening, then rain.  A crack of both at 2 am ... that woke us all up , out here on the point anyway !
The thunder started again late Saturday afternoon, a slow, quiet rumble making its way towards me. I almost expect to see Chariots pulled by wild horses flying down the river ! Louder and closer, not knowing where they will collide ! It sounds like it's right over my head ! 
The light show is spectacular, but so bright you have to be ready to close your eyes, and even then , it's bright !  There will be much more to come.  I'm guessing 3 inches fell the last 48
hours, but the river is a lagoon, and the lagoon is a lagoon, so we are on our way ... plus ... land crabs are out and shuffling through the house and 3 Scorpions Sunday morning !!

I'm going to put my kitchen table legs in plastic containers, so nothing can climb up, just to be on the safe side.  The crabs aren't dangerous, and you get used to them, but I really don't like them climbing on the palapa roof, so the brooms come in handy for that too.  
Mops, rags, squeegees, umbrellas, at the ready ....
I did get out to watch game 5 with the Russell's on Saturday night, but I left in the 3rd period
because it started raining, and the thunder was getting louder, and the lightening was getting closer. I made it home just in time !

There was a light drizzle Saturday morning when myself and 3 friends went out on a boat
cruise down the coast ... the sky cleared and we had a perfect day ... we settled into a little
beach and the water was as clear and smooth as glass, and warm , really warm , just the way I like it ... we ate ceviche made with gorros, pulled from the rocks right there by the snorkelers of the group .... nice to have a friend with her own boat !!

Another few night of rain, and the ocean won't be so inviting. It will be too full of tree trunks, and coconuts, and everything else that slides down the mountain . The fishermen haven't had to bail out their boats yet, but it won't be long. 

The termites were swarming already.  I hope last night was the end of them, it had to be,
there were millions!  I had both fans on full blast, pointing outwards, to keep them out of the house ! but they are littered across the floor this morning ... this is when I wish I approved of leaf blowers !! it's like sweeping feathers ! and the squirrels are even more frisky then ever.
One was right up to my kitchen table and then there was a stand off between 2 of them, both hanging upside down from the tree, over my back deck, chirping their heads off, lily, my cat, and a large enough black lizard.  The broom won !

The fishing has been fair, it's always hit and miss, but no shortage of Bonita still, some Amber jack, and another run of Tuna.  I'll have to get to know my fish better this summer ,
and get ready for my decapitation lesson !

It's overcast again this Monday morning, so there is little chance we will get to see the super
full moon, or much of any moon for a while. But I am happy to trade off for the rain !
Every living thing is relieved and refreshed.  It's still 28 degrees at 10:00 in the morning,
but everything has changed. I can hear my grass growing right now ! I hope this year it will turn into a lawn !? 

Other than all that ... we are just a sleepy little fishing village .... I hope all is well in your town, except if you live in Alberta, which is devastating.  I hardly know what's going on up there, but I know it's bad .... my thoughts are with my dear friend Irene and her family...

until next week ...
we are all in this together ...