NOW its the rainy season

About a month ago I was worried that the rainy season was starting, and that we hadn't finished packing away all our grain and that it would get in the way of everything. Well, I think it was supposed to have started, but there's been a bit of a drought here. So now it's starting. Luckily we do have all our grain packed away, and I'm much more comfortable getting things done that I'm not completely scared by the rain. It'll probably make things harder, but not impossible. It's much cooler out.

I wasn't sure quite what the rainy season looked like. It would rain hard for a few hours, then take a week off. Not the rainy season. Now, it rained yesterday, twice, and it rained last night and this morning, HARD. To the point where half of my guest house got flooded. It's not as bad as it sounds, all the floors are tile, and the house is on a slant so that my bedroom and the sitting room are untouched, just the kitchen and the area where the kitchen table is. Nothing is ruined, I'm pretty sure.

The rain makes it harder for the farm hands, I think. I think the smell from the manure gets worse in the rain, and it's just harder to slosh manure around when its raining. But maybe the water in the pens helps them clean a bit. Maybe.

It really makes traveling hard. Because so many of the roads are dirt roads that get muddy and slick, and are very narrow, with ruts throughout and drainage trenches down the sides, it's pretty hazardous to drive on some roads. And the boda drivers have a better handle on not falling in a ditch, or getting out if they do, but that doesn't mean there's a less chance of slipping in general. Plus you can't take a boda anywhere when it's actually raining, which it has been all morning.

It's nice to just sit at home on a rainy day; having got up early enough that I don't have to jump into action it feels kind of like that. So here's to the rainy season.