Summer is back, I think …
Posted by: Fats in: Fats, Vitamins & Minerals > Needleworks > Wala langHere are two crocheted purses that I finished yesterday. 
These use thick yarn and the finer crocheting thread, as well as bright yellow-orange ribbons running through what are often referred to as “beading” in old crochet books.
I also managed to write a long-overdue text for the second in my Finding Linux series (thank goodness!) - over at Proyekto.
And … an amazingly sunny day today, when nearly all throughout the summer season it has been raining. Trevor said it’s been just like an English summer. Yes, that’s quite rare here, but pleasant, since the city seems spared from the sweltering heat. There was even a typhoon several days ago.
However, now, the summer weather seems to be cooperating just in time for the last week of the May fiesta. They also trimmed the trees outside a few days ago when the rains took their pause. I took a photo of the view outside, the houses across us are now visible, and so are we. The tree’s branches, however, are still pulling at the electricity wires in what to me seem a dangerous way. There is an electric post nearby with a tree clutching it. When it rained the other day I heard the sizzling sound of electricity, so I reported it to the electric company and they came right away to fix it.
Ours is not the most pleasant location, actually, if one is not able to adjust to the noisy environment inherent in t-junctions: cars honk when they reach the junction, the trees provide good shade for noisy tricycles, the jeepneys pass along this corner too, as well as all religious processions. And there are two hair salons facing each other across the street - a beauty salon run by gays and a barber shop run by studs. They frequently tease and bicker. But we are used already to all the noise, often it is quite lovely noise, the chatting and teasing, the barking of dogs in the morning, but not so much the motor cars and tricycles. Especially unpleasant are the horribly loud motorcycles, I keep asking Trevor why on earth they have to rev up their machines so much.
Usually, the motorbikes rush along the streets in the early early morning, waking everyone up. And more, the noise and vibration coming from the motorcycles trigger the alarms of the cars parked along the sidewalk, and we are all left with the cacophony of electronic crows and chimpanzees. The past two early morning weekends the parade came along with great noise, Trevor told me, and I just slept through them all.
It is especially noisy this early evening because they have taken advantage of the clear weather to put up the banderitas for the fiesta. They have this long ladder along the sidewalk, several people around it teasing each other.
So, summer is back, I think … maybe …
