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approaching storm crosses Cozumel

I love sleeping during storms, curtains closed, light dim, booming thunder, and snuggled under the covers dozing.  Bliss!

It’s much better in the daytime of course because storms at night are more frightening.   It’s also better in the tropics where you know you won’t suddenly have to run out into freezing cold rain to clear a drain.

It helps to have the steady hum of an AC that dulls the sound and keeps the covers a necessity.  In fact, I’ve taken to building elaborate pillow forts to keep the icy blast off because we only have a few cotton blankets but lots and lots of pillows.

I’ve done some marathon sleeping these last few days.  Friday night I went to bed at 10pm and slept until noon on Sat, and then I took a nap that afternoon!  I’ve taken a nap every day we’ve been here in fact, and the only other thing I’ve done is swim and try and catch up on all my missed blogs.   No time to comment, I’ve got too many to read and a nap waiting.

We need to head back to Mérida today but again the thunder is booming, rain is falling and I may need a nap before we go.   We did go out for some food last night as we’ve exhausted the supply of popcorn and leftovers from the neighbors downstairs who contributed the remains of their fridge when they left.   Mimi has read about a dozen books I think, I sleep and she reads.

painted water

Today is our anniversary.   It appears it is the 18th once again.   I’m convinced we’ve been saying we’ve been together for 18 years for the last few years at least.   Mimi says it was 1991 and I have no idea so she must be right but how does that explain that we’ve come up with 18 years for so long?   18 is a good number, I guess we should just keep it.  Forever 18, sounds kind of nice actually.

I love the look the water gets when a storm is approaching.  The surface starts to move but not enough to form white caps, just enough to make it look like an impressionist watercolor.

Once the rain and wind arrives it turns silver and pointillist and bouncy, but that’s another picture that I didn’t take because I didn’t want the camera to get wet.