miércoles, 11 de mayo de 2011

It´s starting to rain again. All the grass is brown, the trees have stopped growing, and water is just barely flowing from the springs, but with the rain everything should be getting better. The agricultural season is starting, everyone is going out to plant rice and the mangos and cashew fruits are ripe and delicious. I´ve been a year in Panama now. I remember my first night with a host family in Panama City when the rains were starting. I was trapped inside from a storm, scared because I had never seen rain so strong and imagining myself lost somewhere out in the jungle.

I have a puppy now. My neighbor named him Tachi, little old man. He´s really little and energetic and puppy-like and we´re still learning how to do sit. I´m worried that training might be difficult because he´s a comarca dog, and probably comes from a bloodline that hasn´t been trained for several hundred generations. We´ll try though. My community would be very impressed to see a dog sit on command. And I need to remember to pick up his shots while I´m in the city here.

And I´ve got six chickens right now, laying and taking care of chicks and tearing up my gardens. I´ve had a small lull in work, waiting out delays in my fish and stove work, so I´ve been more domestic. The dog and chickens and I started a new garden and have been cooking more. Felix had a whole crop of cabbage get damaged with by a type of caterpillar, so I made 15 pounds of sauerkraut. That´s a lot. I really, really hope it´s good.

So I figured out how to get pictures off my camera and can post them on the blog and facebook now. Sadly, I forgot my camera today. So that´s no help. Next post I´ll put up pictures.