After several days with a 60% probability prediction of rain, it has finally started to do so. Usually it takes a probability of 80% - 90% before it will reliably rain, the heaven bursting forth with manna from heaven.
On the walk home from the restaurant tonight, it looked as if the clouds south of town were heavy with rain, but we weren't really expecting any rainfall. So imagine our surprise when, shortly after closing the front door, the rain came!
Don't know how much we'll get or how long the rainfall will continue, but at least things will get rinsed off. The heavier rains from last week left dried puddles of mud along the sidewalk (if you can call it that) from our home into downtown. A rinse would be appreciated. Hope there's enough rain to make it so.
As luck would have it, we leave home tomorrow morning at 4 am for the 'local' airport in Leon (about an hour's drive away) for our trip to Tijuana, and thence to San Diego to Albuquerque and Santa Fe for the opera this weekend. We'll be back in SMA Monday morning. Hope it's stopped raining by then!
After dinner, we were just admiring the view down the Ancha towards home and commenting on how 'nearly' flat the walk was when we noticed the clouds. Built on a mountainous hillside, there are very few 'flat' streets in town. I always laugh when someone advertises a house or apartment for rent with the phrase 'flat walk to the Jardin.' Mostly because there are very few flat walks anywhere in town.
However, for our trek into town, the Zacateros/Ancho de San Antonio/Salida a Celeya road is darn close to flat. Only a barely perceptible rise along the entire two-mile length. Now, once you reach Centro, there's a definite up-hill walk to the Jardin of a few blocks - another reason there's no 'flat walk to the Jardin.'
I suppose when compared to some other treks across town it seems flat!
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