Amazing Weather

I can't seem to get an image to upload so this post is image-free.

We are having very non-February in Costa Rica weather. For the past 3 days we have had rain, sometimes torrential rain, and temperatures in the high 60's and lo 70's. February here is normally blistering. The weather is so unusual that the BBC reported it in its world weather review. We had guests for dinner last night. I baked a cake, and cooked two dishes in the oven. We don't have a barbeque and normally I don't enjoying hosting because the house is so hot. No so yesterday. I thought the cool weather was just ordered up for me. It is supposed to last at least through Tuesday. Some kind of a weather mass is parked off the coast. The rest of Costa Rica is not getting rain which is too bad since it is sorely needed. Until then, I am in heaven. Cool breezes so that I need a blanket at night and sometimes a shawl in the evening.

Living in Costa Rica, even part time, is about solving a series of problems. A new one appears every day, so we can't say that it is boring around here. But I have to say we sometimes do tire of having what seems like an unbroken line of hurdles. Yesterday's two were water related. No water is flowing into our side of the mountain's holding tank. It hasn't been since some time on Friday. We wished that we knew this was the case on Thursday since we started to refill Bob and Gitti's pool on Thursday and that surely went a long way toward emptying the tank. In any case, the problem was no water flowing in not too much flowing out. So our Association President, Peter, reports that the lines are too old and all have to be ripped out and replaced. This will occur on Monday and Tuesday (weather permitting I add). But you will remember we were having guests on Sunday. Even with strict conservation our water would not last. We are only sharing with one other lot at the moment but even so, we were down to 1/3 of a tank. So Peter came up with a brilliant idea to run a hose from his house to ours and draw from the tank that serves the other side of the mountain, turning off the flow from our tank and connecting directly into the hose bib by our back pila. It worked like a dream. BUT, there is always as but, when we did that the pressure was so great it caused one of the hoses to the washing machine to push out water; not a lot of water but it took us a while to diagnose the problem, correct it and clean up. So we are limping along until we can get back to our own water source. Not earth shattering problems this time.

We are off to Dominical later today to meet with a Real Estate agent. When we talk about out house, all of our talk about it will be pura vida.