Thursday, 17 May 2007
Good greif, when folks say this is the "long rains" they aren't kidding. It is seriously wet. In full disclosure, this isn't a new occurance--it's been raining frequently for nearly 2 months. But that's the point. It's still raining. For example, for the past 2 days, it has rained literally non-stop. Pouring. And to top it off the frogs are having a field day. Last night they were so loud that they woke all of us up. These are just little frogs but there are so many of them now that they can wake up an entire family sleeping with the A/C and fans running (FYI, the fans aren't for cooling so much as shooing away any errant mosquitoes that got in when Josie or Ben or Josh left the door open--which I assure you doesn't happen often--before breakfast). All this rain has, of course, wreaked havoc on the roads. It now takes the kids about 15 minutes longer to get home on the bus because the roads are so muddy or washed out. Today Josie and I walked from our house to go get a newspaper. The paper seller has his stall around the corner from us (what is normally about a 7 minute walk by myself or 15 minutes with Josie). Right next to the stand there is a section where the road is really bad. I mean really bad. It's so bad that many folks will drive 2 km out of their way just to avoid a 100 foot section. Of course, if you have two school age boys--they will ask you to drive 2 km out of your way so that you can drive through that particular road. This section of the road is currently a small lake. I figured it would be. But what I didn't figure was that it's so bad that there are aquatic animals living the water. That's right--the water in the road is so deep, and so big, and been there for so long that there animals living in there. I couldn't tell you what kind of animal as I was on the other side of the road--but there was something swimming around in that puddle--and it wasn't some creature that got stuck or was just crossing over. This thing was living there, in the water, in the middle of the road, next to the newspaper stand.
I know come July, when Dar gets an average of about 1 inch of rain or less that I'll be biting my tongue but for now I just wish I could go ahead and clean the mildew on the porch with some bleach, say kwaheri to the frogs and the puddle-dwelling mystery critter and know that they won't be returning until the "short rains".
Good greif, when folks say this is the "long rains" they aren't kidding. It is seriously wet. In full disclosure, this isn't a new occurance--it's been raining frequently for nearly 2 months. But that's the point. It's still raining. For example, for the past 2 days, it has rained literally non-stop. Pouring. And to top it off the frogs are having a field day. Last night they were so loud that they woke all of us up. These are just little frogs but there are so many of them now that they can wake up an entire family sleeping with the A/C and fans running (FYI, the fans aren't for cooling so much as shooing away any errant mosquitoes that got in when Josie or Ben or Josh left the door open--which I assure you doesn't happen often--before breakfast). All this rain has, of course, wreaked havoc on the roads. It now takes the kids about 15 minutes longer to get home on the bus because the roads are so muddy or washed out. Today Josie and I walked from our house to go get a newspaper. The paper seller has his stall around the corner from us (what is normally about a 7 minute walk by myself or 15 minutes with Josie). Right next to the stand there is a section where the road is really bad. I mean really bad. It's so bad that many folks will drive 2 km out of their way just to avoid a 100 foot section. Of course, if you have two school age boys--they will ask you to drive 2 km out of your way so that you can drive through that particular road. This section of the road is currently a small lake. I figured it would be. But what I didn't figure was that it's so bad that there are aquatic animals living the water. That's right--the water in the road is so deep, and so big, and been there for so long that there animals living in there. I couldn't tell you what kind of animal as I was on the other side of the road--but there was something swimming around in that puddle--and it wasn't some creature that got stuck or was just crossing over. This thing was living there, in the water, in the middle of the road, next to the newspaper stand.
I know come July, when Dar gets an average of about 1 inch of rain or less that I'll be biting my tongue but for now I just wish I could go ahead and clean the mildew on the porch with some bleach, say kwaheri to the frogs and the puddle-dwelling mystery critter and know that they won't be returning until the "short rains".
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