Yesterday was sunny and bright but not too hot after a night of rain, so I washed a few things and hung them on the balcony to dry. Then D and W seem to have invoked the weather gods and last night saw high winds bringing rain into the cabana through the windows so I had to close the louvres. Just before the rain, I heard a clicky clack against the screens inside the louvres and found the ugly brown beetles that have, thankfully, up to now been absent this year, had arrived in swarms. Once the rain started I had to open the screens to close the louvres and a few of them made it into the cabana and took to dive-bombing me. Each and every one of them was thrown out the door to make their own survival plans.

 

Just before drifting off last night I became aware of a firefly in the cabana. I gave an amazing amount of light as it flew around the ceiling.

 

Awoke this morning to find a sodden, rain-drenched world outside. Seems to have rained, if gently, all night but this morning the skies have opened and it is pouring buckets. Can only surmise D and W’s invocation because W has a dentist appointment in Placencia on Monday and I suspect it might get cancelled if the weather were like this. W and I will head into Placencia and have a “second breakfast” then I will do a small grocery shop while W gets his tooth fixed before heading back here.

 

D and W have put new rain gutters on the cabana and more water tanks out back to store the rain water since I was here last year. At the foot of the stairs, D and W keep a basin of water to rinse one’s feet after walking on the sand and, given that it is now overflowing after all the rain, I suspect the tanks are full, too. I will take advantage of it today to wash my hair since a walk up the beach is out.