Rainfall Update

Lloyd Cripe lives in Palmira, which is close to Boquete.  Our climates are not the same; we’re hotter and if I listen to the locals here, wetter.  Lloyd just emailed rainfall data for May, including a breakdown of yesterday and the past week.

Yesterday:    9 inches
Past 8 days:  26″
May so far:  40″

So I figure this [...]

More on Unrealistic Expectations

I’m working on another post about ticks and Erlichiosis, but thought I’d write further on scaling down expectations, thanks to a comment from a dear Irish Internet correspondent.  Will and I  have never met, but still, given this wonderful day and age of instantaneous communication over large distances, we’re Internet buddies, so to speak.  He [...]