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All Day Long

That would be the rain. The blogs down our way, like Erin all the way over in San Pedro to the east and Jen all the way over in San Ramon to the west, are talking ’bout endless rains. The past few weeks in particular. It’s been raining HARD and LONG. It’s 9pm now and it’s been raining pretty much non-stop since around one. Big loud drops and plenty of ‘em. The video is a drop in the bucket and it didn’t record the huge thunder roll that happened near the end…

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Budding Pyromaniacs

By now, middle of March, it hasn’t rained in about 4 months here in the central valley. While the coast gets more rain, it’s dry as a bone there, too, by all accounts.

Costa Rica has two seasons: wet and dry. Starting in May, it rains off and on for a couple of months, then pours down for about five more. The rainy season ends late November and end it does. Nada drop. My yard is now completely brown, as are the fields all around us.

Freezing Bortmans

The Wind, She’s A-Howlin’

Remember when I wrote how this time of year is really summer here? How perfect the weather is on the mountain? Cool breeze, hot sun? Well, the rainy season is definitely over. I got that right. We had our last good rain about two weeks ago.

And because of our proximity to the equator (latitude 9°), the temperature doesn’t vary much winter to summer. Sun rises at around 5:30, sets around 6 everyday, 365.

But nobody told me about the windy season. The day after our last rain, the wind started blowing. And it’s a fierce, bitter, cold wind. . . . → Read More About The Wind, She’s A-Howlin’

Weather & Time

Costa Rica time is GMT -6, what the U.S. calls Central Time without Daylight Savings. So summers we are two hours behind Key West and winters we are only one. Très confusing… Daylight Savings with a twist!

On the simple side, Costa Rica is so close to the equator at latitude 9°, the sun rises around 5:15a and sets around 6p. Everyday. 365. You don’t get those delicious long evenings, but it’s predictable! For the longest time, we never went anywhere at night… we would fall asleep when it . . . → Read More About Weather & Time

A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fa-ah-all

She starts… Yesterday, we woke to another gorgeous day. By 1pm, the skies were dark. At 2pm, the rain started and it poured for 2 hours. A wonderful storm: complete with a little thunder and lightening. Then it stopped and was clear and beautiful again. Like this morning. Amazing.

The locals are complaining about how dry it is here… Ha! Looks pretty damn lush and green to me still!!! True, it hasn’t rained since December. We’ve had a couple of pretty tiny showers up till yesterday, but . . . → Read More About A Hard Rain’s a-Gonna Fa-ah-all

I Felt The Earth Move Under My

I’ve put off writing this post for a week so I can think of a delicate way to put this. But I can’t think of one and Merriam Webster’s thesaurus is no help. So here goes:

Last Sunday night, around 9:30pm, I was tinkling. Wait, there’s more.

I know it was 9:30pm because I had just put the boys to bed and because that’s when the earthquake happened. I was sitting there, minding my own business, when the seat started to vibrate. Not a slosh, not a rock, definitely a strong vibrate. The water had . . . → Read More About I Felt The Earth Move Under My

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