November has just started but we are experiencing unusually cool weather here in our otherwise hot and humid country.
Rains have been coming for the past several weeks. The seedlings we have planted have been benefiting from these although elsewhere these rains meant bad news.
The days are getting shorter because the afternoons are getting darker earlier than usual.
It is quite difficult to wake up at the usual hour, which is 5:00am because it is still dark and chilly. Sleep seems to call upon people to stay in bed longer.
One of the things that is difficult to do in this kind of weather is taking a bath. We have been using electricity for cooking in the last few month so we can’t really prepare hot water for bathing. Yes, we still heat water on the stove for bathing! We might be getting back to cooking with LPG soon because of this need for hot water for bath.
Kinda pathetic, huh?
It would be nice to have our own tankless water heater in our bathrooms but alas, our water services in this part of the city merit being classified as really third world quality.
With all these, we make do with what we have. We may not be able to have hot water readily available, at least we enjoy cool weather that is a welcome respite from the heat, at least for now.
That alone is enough to be thankful for.
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