The end is near?

I know, I know.  I've been saying that the rainy season is coming to an end.  Really, it should have come to an end already. But we're enjoying  a deliciously long rainy season this year.  And I'm certainly not complaining (though it would be kind of nice to get rid of this pesky hayfever which thrives when the plants are green and growing!).  This time, though, I think it's coming to an end.  It was HOT today.  At 9:30pm, it's still 30C out there (and in here, too!).  The forecast is calling for upper 30s tomorrow and Tuesday.  That's 38C tomorrow, folks.  38C.  A little hot, I'd say, when one lives without air conditioning!

The butterflies have also told us that the rainy season is nearly finished.  My new neighbor, an American (I'll forgive him for that, since he's actually from Seattle, which is practically Canada!) loves butterflies.  He brought his own nets and makes up a concoction from pineapples to feed the butterflies and lure them into his traps.  This man knows his butterflies.  Yesterday, he caught two butterflies in the same trap.  Apparently, they are the same species of butterfly - but one is the "rainy season" butterfly and the other is the "dry season" butterfly.  I honestly had no idea that butterflies changed from one form to another depending on the seasons.  But since the butterflies are in process of changing over, then I think that means the weather is really in the process of changing over, too.

Zane's fur is getting a bit thinned out, too, and he's not as puffy anymore (well, I mean, Zane is never very puffy, but he's a lot less puffy by his standards), which means that the heat is on it's way.  He's started sleeping in funny corners during the heat of the afternoons, too, instead of on his table, which indicates to me that it's getting hotter, too.

I just hope my leaves can grow for a few more weeks. I spent some time watering my pumpkin and the leaves this evening.  The leaves are really growing well, and I've been eating of them each and every day.  I'm going to start giving them away, though, as they're not going to last too long once the ground starts drying up :(

I also know the dry season is coming because I washed some clothes today, and almost before I had all of the clothes up on the line, the shirts that I had put up first were almost dry!  It's quite a nice feeling to pull sun-dried clothes off the line, as things have been so damp lately!  While I'm not looking forward to the heat, I am looking forward to the dry air and getting rid of all the mustiness and mould which has started to form everywhere during this extended rainy season.

Sorry, nothing of real note to mention today.  I just had a lovely weekend, enjoyed a few meals with good friends, had some rest, read a good book, listened to a good sermon, and have now layed my clean pajama-clad body on top of a clean sheet, with my cat at the foot of my bed... I have been satifactorily weekend-ed, which hasn't actually happened in a long time :).