Muy Frio
ByDamn, it’s cold! Two days ago I had to take a shower in the evening because I got hot and sweaty walking around Antigua and last night I woke up cold and had to put stretchy pants on. The rain moved in last night about dark (to the great misery of all the fiambre celebrants), and it got downright cold. I’m talking cold as in, 60, maybe even 59 degrees F. If it gets much colder I’m going to have to hire someone to start hauling firewood in here and channel my Boy Scout days (made it to ‘Life Scout’, then discovered females and quit), and build a fire.
It’s 63F now, overcast and I’m still bundled up and freezing. Have I gone native all of a sudden? Will I be wearing a hat and sweaters everywhere from now on, like my other long-time expat friends?
Of course, there is the chance that the combination of Cipro and drying out is causing my body to shut down in advance of death. Wouldn’t that make some people happy?
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3 Comments
November 2nd, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Ten-to-one your a goner if the sun does not come out, even odds if it does, I've seen more good booze hounds die from drying out for medical reasons than I can shake a stick at…
November 2nd, 2009 at 11:36 pm
Nah, you're just finally acclimatizing. All that alcohol probably acted as an anti-freeze . . . pretty soon you'll be wearing toques to bed!
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:03 am
This is it Mark! This is the weather this time of year, minus the huge amount of rain. It is always cold in November and December. Get out your coats, hats and gloves, it will only get colder and the dampness is a killer in our lovely colonial style houses without heaters. You can buy firewood near the market, near where they play soccer (and I think near the bomberos too). The firewood place is a group of vendors that just sell firewood and live there too. I like the lady, as you enter, in the second place on the left. She knows what kind of wood I like (that would be dry for the chiminea), gives me a fair price, her kids load it up. Make sure you buy ocote. The ocote is the key ingredient to making anyone a champion fire starter in Guatemala. Just build a little teepee with DRY wood, add some ocote and you will be nice and warm and dry in just minutes.