Summer time

This is my abode windowless house. Haha... just kidding! My room is actually pretty sweet by PC standards. I don't want to put any pictures up cause I don't want people getting jealous..heehee. This is actually the view from outside my door into the backyard where we have several stunning Lapacho in bloom. There are three varieties- yellow, purple and white. My personal favorite is the yellow. The drive from Bermejo to Tarija is particularly gorgeous these days with all the yellow, purple and white splashed on the mountains. While the blooming of the Lapacho is beautiful it is also sort of bitter sweet because it flowers for such a short period of time... about two weeks.

The Lapacho is in bloom and just like that summer is upon us. It seems just like last week I was I was telling myself ¨All right... I´m ready for summer. Bring it on. No more of this freezing my ass off in the shower anymore.¨ Oh wait... that was just last week. Well for better or worse I got what I wanted. Out of nowhere the heat and humidity crept up on us last Monday. I just looked up Bermejo on the weather channel (that´s right... it´s got it´s own page http://espanol.weather.com/weather/local/BLXX0030?letter=B so when the weather is especially nasty wherever you are you can look up Bermejo and tell yourself ¨Well..at least I´m not there!¨) and it is currently 36C (97 F) with humidity of 28%. And this is just the beginning! I´ve been told in doesn´t cool down until Feb! I see a lot of sitting directly in front of the fan in my future. Well maybe the heat will make make sweat off a few of those extra pounds (which actually is more like 10!).