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| Lots of Lizards During the Rainy Season – though rain sparse this week. |
Humidity and the DampRid Discovery
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| It is rainy season (though less rain this year) and that means high humidity, even in your house. So I discover this interesting product at PriceSmart. DampRid |
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| I hang it in my closet and it absorbs the moisture from my clothing and the surrounding air. The crystals in the upper bag collect water and put it in the lower silver bag until full or crystals used. |
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| By holding up to light you can see the water in lower bag and some of the crystals that are dissolving down there. A bag lasts about a month so far. |
Because my windows stay open at all times and there are often breezes, the air in the rooms does not seem to be as humid and I haven’t felt the need for a dehumidifier yet. September and October are when the heavy rains come and it may be different then, though being on a hill with good cross-venting air flow, it will probably be fine.
By the way, it is one of the driest rainy seasons in years here with half the quantity of rain this June as last June. Global warming and El Nino are already affecting this part of Costa Rica. While the Caribbean side has had too much rain and flooding. Go figure!
Wherever you go, no matter what the weather, always bring your own sunshine.
~Anthony J. D’Angelo
🙂
The Rain Has Returned!
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| After about two weeks of very little rain it seems to be back to daily, I hope! I’m tired of watering the trees and garden + neighbor’s while out of town. They say this dry period happens every June-July. |
My Library
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| My library recharges at night, Kindle Fire & Samsung Cellphone (Kindle App). |
One of the smartest things I did before the move south was get a Kindle Fire and then add the Kindle App to my cellphone! I read everything from the Bible to novels, National Geographic and occasionally the news, all electronically on my Kindle. When riding a bus or eating in a restaurant I read on my phone. As a quote I used yesterday in the butterfly post says,
“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
FYI, I’m currently reading the latest English version of Don Quixote and it is too early for me to have a judgement on it yet (but a little weird so far). A couple of days ago I finished reading Pay It Forward, one of the best books I’ve ever read! It is by Catherine Ryan Hyde whom I discovered by accident from a little 99 cent Kindle book by her titled Electric God which was very good and pointed me to Pay It Forward which was also made into a movie. Sorry that Netflix is not streaming it, just on DVD which I can’t get here. It is about how a little boy’s school project to “change the world” actually did! Of course the movies are never as good as the books! 🙂
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| Locally made bookcase with doors to protect from dry season dust. It is between book boxes & guest room wardrobe. |
After arriving I started by reading all of the Chronicles of Narnia, The Hobbit, and all the books in Lord of the Rings series. Great ways to escape the American culture! Those lengthy readings were broken up by two John Grisham mysteries, Agatha Christie, Louis L’Amour, three books on Costa Rica, two science fiction books, and The Psalmist (a mystery) by James Lillieford, a new and interesting writer for me. I’ll try him again.
Because I did bring two hard copy Bibles, my photo books, a couple of books on simple life, and my bird, butterfly, plants and other Central America nature & travel guides, I got a little bookcase (Pequeña Biblioteca), with doors to help with the dry season dust. It is simple, handmade locally, and serves my purpose well. I will also be keeping a few of the genealogy books as I go through them, but all my scrapbooks are going to be photographed and become electronic files as most of genealogy stuff will.
Mostly, my library now is my Kindle Fire! Best library yet!
Nature is my theme, so here’s one nature photo: 🙂
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| Rainy Day Green! Even with dull, overcast sky, greens seem brighter in rain! Another view from my balcony in Atenas, Costa Rica! |
And for those of you who know Reagan Frazier, he just scheduled a visit with me for two weeks in February 2016, just 8 months away! 🙂 But if thinking about it, February is off limits now.
Rainy Season
The “Rainy Season” must have finally started because it is raining every afternoon, usually late and sometimes into the evening. Nice! Good times for a a good book and cup of tea!
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| Rain here and not over there (for now). |
And I don’t have to water the garden and new trees! 🙂
Rain!
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| Life-giving Rain! Hard to photograph, but easy to accept! |
I rushed to plant my garden the first week of May because I understood that the rainy season started in May and it would be raining every day. Well, I have been watering plants almost everyday with only a few good rains thus far and none the last 4 or 5 days. Well, I watered this morning and this afternoon we got a long, soaking rain which I hope is the beginning of a near daily event. Then it started again this evening, so our longest rain yet this year. And now I know why they call it winter this season, it is cold during the rain.
My Garden in the Night Rain
The Rain to the Wind
The rain to the wind said,
You push and I’ll pelt.’
They so smote the garden bed
That the flowers actually knelt,
And lay lodged–though not dead.
I know how the flowers felt.― Robert Frost