24 March 2015

Tropical Storm Hitting Us a Bit

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It's still our Dry Season (which lasts from about October to June), and it's also the Hot part of that season (with the hottest time being March to May). So it seems a bit unusual for a big thunderstorm to come through, but it's coolness is welcomed. We have had warning of it, and I always check out the daily weather reports. Yesterday I carried an umbrella with me for the first time in several months, although I didn't need it.

This noon the sky became dark with rumblings of thunder, and our cat Pinkie came downstairs and hid under some clothes. But Jiuu Jiuu was not as frightened, probably because she was born outside during the last rainy season, and then she was orphaned and lived on a roof in the neighborhood before Tuk rescued her.

The air is fresher and cooler than I've known in a long time. I stepped out on our second-floor veranda in the back and relished it. We have a new improved roof on it, so when the rainy season does come again I will set a chair out there.

Blessed coolness. Zen delight.

-Zenwind.

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07 March 2015

How Hot Is It? ...

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It’s horrendously hot and humid here, and I’m wilting in a pool of sweat. How hot is it?

I’ll let the late great Robin Williams answer that from his tropical weather report in the film Good Morning, Vietnam! (1987):

“The weather out there today is hot and shitty with continued hot and shitty in the afternoon. Tomorrow a chance of continued crappy with a pissy weather front coming down from the north. Basically, it's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut.”

“It’s hot. Damn hot. The hottest thing is my shorts. They’re so hot, I can cook in ‘em. Do a little crotch-pot cooking. It’s so hot, I saw two of those little guys in orange robes burst into flames. It’s hot, hot and wet, which is fine if you’re with a lady but not so fine if you’re in the jungle.”

Ah, Robin, you really nailed it. (And you left us too soon.)

-Zenwind.

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