When it rains here, usually, it rains hard and last night was no exception. I went out to find out just how much I wasn't ready for that storm even with simple things like plant placement. This poor box of radishes was under the drip line of the house and got a bit mangled with all the extra water.

And there we have the soil that used to be in the pot with those exposed radishes.

This duck was a special kind of dirty before the storm, we got clean ducks out of it.

This duck is as mean as he looks.

The quail were soggy but are some of the most resilient during the wet season despite their small size. The ones in the more shaded enclosure were almost comically shaking they were so chilled from the weather, but that passed within an hour as the day heated up more than any of us were ready for. Here, with the rain comes high humidity and heat.

My habanero plant was happy.

As was my root beer plant. You read that right, it smells and tastes kinda like root beer.

And my butterfly pea, something I'm growing to use the bright blue flowers for kombucha tea.

If you look closely you'll see the down side to the Mexican fiesta. A lot of the time especially in poorer barrios like mine the people are more likely to toss their empty bottle against a boulder down the mountain than to pick it up and either save and recycle it like we do when we end up with empties (we have a lot of friends that have come over and drank a lot of booze, leaving us with cans and bottles we actually consider future building material.

I have spent many hours already picking at this glass and these rainstorms help that process by cleaning them and making them reflective. It's amazing how much glass I find, and how much my chickens find as they scratch at the ground.

All that bright green is new growth, the wet season is here.

You see that weird looking vine? Don't touch that with bare skin unless you like instant itchy painful rashes :) There are several vines like this out on the hill that look similar and some look different but they all seem to have the same instant skin reaction. You know immediately when you touch them that it was a bad idea and then the itchy pain just builds from there. The jungle is harsh and this specimen got fed to my birds.

I noticed a paw print of Rebels in the mud and took a few shots. I've always loved his foot print and have planned to preserve it for some time. For now, I have this photo.

If you look closely at the photos above you can see some rivulets in the dirt, from the water rushing down the hill. Much of the dirt flows down hill and that's super obvious when the roads become covered in sand and dirt after every storm. With the way that Mexicans keep their properties here, often clearing them by slash and burn methods they make the problem worse. We've been terracing the hill these past few years to help stop this and are reminded by things like this that what we are doing is important even if we don't own this property.

We built up this little step and it's looking like soon it will wash out and need redone as that step is right in the main drip line on the front of the house. The weather is harsh here despite the sunny skies and honestly I often miss the simple challenges of farming up north with winter.

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