Wednesday we had a real doozy of an aguacero, which came on top of a similar rain on Tuesday. Yesterday, while walking the dogs, I noticed that the small canal on the south side of the driveway was still draining–the water was still running. Elsewhere, I was squishing along in my boots. The ground is already saturated and this is only the beginning of July! if it’s like this now, I haven’t the foggiest notion what it’s going to be like by October. We’ve been improving our drainage ditches on the north side of the house; on Saturday, when Darío comes, I’m going to ask him to start digging connecting ditches on both sides of the dog run gate, to channel the runoff to the cuneta he’s already put in that will drain the water off to the side of the dog run and down the slope to the south.
It’s hard to get any outside work done with the ground so soggy. This is a situation where power tools are not an advantage. The lawn mower will sink partially into the soft, saturated ground in some areas. As a matter of fact, I asked Darío to “clean”–Panamanian usage is the verb “to clean” rather than the verb “to cut”– with his machete around the giant rocks that still litter a portion of the property near the quebrada and alongside the stone fence that borders the ganadera. that’s weed eater territory, but I’m going to have my hands full with other areas that are very difficult for him to get with machete, marginally easier for me with the weed eater.
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