Well, it looks like the rainy season has finally arrived. For a few nights we had soft, gentle rain; good for soaking into the earth. Then two nights ago we had a tremendous storm: the sky was filled with dark clouds, lightning began to explode in the skies south of town (our side), and eventually the lightning and thunder melded overhead.
Fiyero had been sleeping on the bed; Miyake joined him from the floor. I would have thought that Miyake would have stayed in her place (between the bed and the dresser on the side away from the windows, but she jumped right up, turned around a few times, and settled down up against me. Her fur is a bit warm, but with enough encouragement she stayed in place throughout the entire storm (I know this because I was awake calming her). Thunder freaks her out (as do exploding cuetas), but she handled it pretty well.
After we finally got to sleep (the storm had moved on out to the campo north and east of the town), Michael was awake later in the night and told me that a soft rainfall had returned early in the morning. The debris washed up at the bottom of our hill was prodigious, that's for sure. The parking lot guy at the International Fitness gym must have removed it because by the time I returned home from our Wednesday morning koffee klatch, it was gone.
It had been raining gently earlier in the evening and had chased our dinner guests in from the backyard where we had been enjoying jalapeño wonton appetizers and margaritas as a prelude to dinner. We watched the newly installed 'fireflies' flitter in the bougainvilleas from the dining room windows, instead.
So last night we again had a gentle rain. 'Gentle' is good, as it allows the water to soak into the earth rather than run off as fast as it falls -- however, I love a good storm now and then. And since they tend to come in from the south - and our bedroom's french doors face in that directions - we usually have a good view of them across our second floor terrace and the homes on the next street.
Guess we'll put up with the increased humidity as a trade-off for the rain. More bothersome than annoying: our glasses of ice water we suck down condense the humidity in the air and form puddles wherever they are sitting. A worthwhile inconvenience.
