Rainy Season Update

Good Morning el Norte .... Happy Saturday... 

Well, basically the Rainy Season started September 1st this year ! So, if you are coming back before November, you may want to bring with you, a pair of boots like Ana is modelling in the following post !

We have had 3, maybe 4 downpours during July and August. 
Two, maybe 3 thunder storms. Then September came and drenched us ! 
Nothing the last 3 days...clear skies, but the Ocean still brown from the deluge. 
Top priority if you are on the hillside...Call Biko to have him secure it as much as he can,
with Chicken wire and Cement .
If I don't do that soon, my Bodega will be swallowed within a few years ... at least the back side and the roof.  
New, improved, " state of the art " ! Bodega ReDo is what I'm after next.
Soon as it stops raining, God willing.    

It's hot. It's humid. It's sticky and buggy and mucky. 
But I love my Life ! I really really do.

If, (I should say, when) I start over heating, and swelling up, and there is no water, or no phone, or no electricity, or no internet, and my floor is flooding ( not always when there is a flood ) but I remember my past, Terrace Bay, The Cold. The Bone Chill. The Mosquitoes.
This doesn't seem so bad.

I envision the Crones of my past.  
The Warriors and Pioneers long before me who Never Gave Up !
I look to the Elders in the Village, the Donas who grew up here, and Honour their Stories
and Will to survive. 

Yelapa grew 2 Generations in 10 years, basically, but the hardships that the People had
to overcome are still here. You see it every day. Everywhere.

Many people here still go without, what you and I have at our fingertips.
They work hard, everyday, to survive, and provide. 

If I feel that Nervous Breakdown coming on, I focus on Survival, and then get in the Hammock with a book ASAP.

Just Imagine what it was like 70 years ago .... 100 years ago... 
We have Elders here over 100 years old !! 

The air, the ocean, the river, the sun, the rain, the food, the peace, family.
And their Faith too ... built this Village of ...

Beautiful, Easy Going, Peaceful, Strong, Kind, Fiesta Loving, Welcoming, Warriors !!

It's a great place to " chanel " John Lennon ... " There are no Problems, only Solutions " .

Not everyones cup of Tea, for sure. I worked up to it slowly...but .. 
Even for me, loving it all as I do, I see, in my future, a little cabin on Jackfish Lake,
August and September... can it get any better ???

Many many Happy Returns of the Day...

I hope you are breathing in fresh clear air ... eating fresh fruits and vegetables ... and 
giving and getting a lotta love