No snow here. Lots of rain, almost everyday or rather every night. It has not been enough though to deter us from work. We'd love a rain day to stay home.
A couple of points not found on the blog. Mary has been extremely creative and resourceful in making our house a home. Our living quarters are the best in the village; we have electricity in the evening and tile floors and lots of comfortable couches. Mary has developed a trash pit for burning our waste (photo of the yard behind our house) and she has even gone into low-tech plumbing to figure out a healthy septic alternative. We have hooks and clothes lines and a mosquito net as well as a camping type of kitchen sink.
My daily routine begins with about a 30 minute focus on water: walking to the pump for two buckets, filtering 2 liters of water and positioning waster water for our flush system. It will make me appreciate the 1 second turn of the taps back home.
We've heard some news from you all and welcome more. Matthew is back to work a couple of hours a day and us walking unassisted at home. Donald has new glasses and is active and learning.
Annie has found a new apartment in Boston not too far from where she'll work. And we hear of sickness in both Joe's and Margaret's houses.
We marked the one month anniversary of Joe and Leonor's wedding with a toast here.
I get a short email from the Times every day with short snapshots of news, so we're able to keep up a little. Presidential politics sure seems historic. We even get a short Berkshire county news email, with stories on spring time. No news on the spring training front.
So we hope you all are well and healthy and safe and happy. Love from the equator.
