Google mold, and black mold.And yes, i know its the rainny season.
But even so, its been raining every single day.
Not that I mind, though. Garden and conuco looks great.
But...........
Water ( mains ) is dirty !!! And i mean really, really dirty.*
Open the tap, fill *mug, leave it out on the table, wife will drink it thinking it is weak coffee.
I kid you not.
It comes out cleaner, but not clean ( not that the mains water is*ever clean ), so lets say clearer.
Problem #1. How to wash clothes ? Especially white clothes. Dirty whites are stacking up
Problem #2. How to stop alguae from growing on the bottom of cement thingys ( like flower beds, etc....) ?
Of course they are all white so that doesnt help.
Wifey scrubs with bleach and*ace ( ? cheap soap powder ? ) and pi?on ( nice smelly thing used to wash floors and stuff ).
But then it rains ( pours really, thats not drizzle or even rain, its more like end of the world stuff ) and we have to start over again. ( yes,*we, cos the new cleaning lady she hired wasnt to my liking, so got rid of her......hence wifey excerts vengeance by getting me to help her
I proposed painting everything green to solve the problem
Problem #3. If you dont maintain the pool clean every single day, the alguaes creep out at night and smother one in his sleep.
And even when cleaned, the water still has a*murky look to it. I doubled everything, cloro, acid and soda . And tripled anti-alguae ( and got 2 diffrent brands to be on the safe side ).
There again no evaporation problem.
Thank God, cos I cant top it up with dirty mains water
Any ideas ?
So how long will this weather last ?
* ).Over here in San Pedro, everybody had the flu last week. As I was honking and blowing my brains out, I overheard my neighbor (over the wall) laughing about it. Guess what Mr. Neighbor has this week? Poetic justice? No. I don't like to see anybody suffering. But this flu/gripe/mala cosa is sweeping the entire country. It's the "cambia de la clima'. Cambia de la clima? No, it's the flu, and the whole damn country has it! Ok. I joke a bit, but I did have it for 4 days. Was not fun. Everybody I have run into since has had it as well. If not them, somebody in their house, or down the block, or on the other end of the country. Oh well.Just did
Thankfully doesnt look*anything like that ..... ouffff.( Completly off topic but if one uses google to check symptomes on anything, one comes away thinking he has bubonic plague, that the dog is possessed by evil spirits and the house is haunted by a demoniac ectoplasm.
Its more like green lines on the white paint, at water level, and only on flower/tree beds wall thingys. Not on outside house walls, and God forbid, not on the inside either. Or I would have napalmed everything on the 2nd day
I forgot to mention it is cold
Well its not, but everyone says it is. Dominican campo cold.
And everyone is ill at the in-laws. But they always are ill, always something. So i didnt pay any notice.
But now wifey is ill. But thats ok. Because she is woman-type ill, as my mother would say. Not like me who is man-type ill, when ill ( which thankfully *is a very rare occurance ), again as my mother would say.
In practice that means if i have the flu I ,
# 1 complain like a dying man,
#2 insist to be injected with atropine directly into the heart by cracking through thorax.
# 3 alternate between the need of constant attention and the need to be left alone to die in peace.
That is if my mother is to be believed.
But shock and horror one of the dogs has the flu !!! Arghhhyhyy
Last time it spread through the pack like wildfire.
And I suffered a week of coughing and retching....... and they are noisy
And since defense system was low in dogs, one of them got " gale" ( well we think - bare patches, itchy and all ) and i had to rub home made ointments on it 3 times a day...... smelly stuff made out of garlic, savila and a bunch of other herbs.
Well if it's been raining a lot lately and you're in the campo most of the dirt should be washed out of the air, so the water is probably very clean.
#2. No electricity, no automatic pump kick in. And me fresh from 1st world still showered, flushed toilets....... pipes ran dry. Electrity comes back on, pump runs dry, need to go and prime pump. ( which is built in a small cave under the house. I would mumble and mutter going to prime pump. Then bang my head 9 times on the ceiling of the cave built to dominican campo proportions, ie if u under 165 cm u are ok----- i am not. Coming back from primming pump i would be swearing and kicking things
...... that rocks ).Was just kidding, Yes is very sad but true, I agree.........Doc...........Ughhh, far from a cure. Just kills the reefs more
This more like indian monsoon.....
After a nice dry day, that even dried out the conuco a bit, which allowed me to let the dogs out back, its bucketing down again !!!!
It took a whole 20 minutes to fill those blue plastic drum containers !! *I just turned them upside down....
Upside, I had a shower under roof pipes evacuation*
No fun though if u live in a zinc roof, half block-half wooden walls house.*
Was at a neighbour when the downpour started...... its like constant artillery/sharpnel hitting the roof. Shout to be heard !!
( that was a wink-prod to the thread on "poor" dominicans living in concrete painted appartment blocks lol--------- in some households if u neeed to take a dump, like right now, u will be soaked getting to the outhouse........ nature's own*bidet on the way back
Oh ! And i nearly forgot.*
Last time in ochoa I picked up by mistake some*sodium alumino, ( or something like that ), thinking it was*cloro granulado. It seemed to work well on the algae, so quite happy.
Lets see the state of the pool tomorrow morning. Fingers crossed.
