The short rainy season has officially begun.
It started with a blast of rain and a plague of frogs. The rain lasted 15 minutes, the frogs for two days. I don't know where the frogs all came from. Hundreds of thousands of them appeared seemingly from nowhere. The kids chased them across the backyard. They hopped over everything, onto the porch, into the hall, across the road. Thousands upon thousands tried to cross the paved highway in a terrible, mass act of amphibian suicide.
In two days, they had all gone, disappeared back to wherever they came from.
A week later we got a second storm. It was raining barrels. I woke up at 5:00am to the strangest sound. At first I thought someone was running a big engine, but then I realized it was rain. Buckets and buckets of it. Mama roused out all the girls (at 5:00am mind you) to clean off the concrete patio while the water lasted. This was followed by a plague of termites.
In a rush. Will post pictures tomorrow.
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