This and That

Just some random thoughts......

Weather- Even though it is October, I joined Abbi in the pool yesterday to swim laps.  The sun still has a lot of heat but there is a slight chill in the breeze. Daytime highs are in the low 80's. There is a definite cool down when the sun disappears. The biggest changes have been in the humidity and the frequency of rain. When we first arrived, the humidity was always 80 % or higher. Everything was sticky- all the time. It rained often. We haven't had any rain in several weeks. Sounds like this will be the pattern for a couple more months. Our winter clothes can stay packed a little bit longer.

Cornhole-Carl introduced cornhole to my principal and his family last Sunday afternoon. They are from South Africa. Another teacher, who grew up in Kenya, joined in.  Naturally, they had never heard of cornhole before. Soon cornhole will be sweeping across this island!

Snake-Last week a warning came from the administration. A snake had been seen within the campus. Evidently a group of teens had seen the baby snake crawling into a locker (our hallways and lockers are all outside). One of the boys was able to kill it before it completely disappeared into the locker. One guess who that boy was....yep, Ben. Evidently the gate guard saw it happening on the security camera. He informed the gathered group that the snake was poisonous, very poisonous! God obviously was watching over Ben and the owner of the locker.

Speaking of snakes......  we were invited to supper with a family shortly after our arrival. We were enjoying after dinner conversation when Carl calmly informed our hostess that a mouse/rat was on her stove. They caught it, and a friend, in a trap a couple days later. Turned out it wasn't a rat. It was a shrew. Hmmmm...

Cockroaches- Haven't had any in our apartment, yet. Yeah! With the humidity they are bigger and more common than in Ohio. Ants haven't been a problem for us... yet. ( I am editing because Carl just told me he found a dead cockroach behind a box. Bettet dead than alive! )

Why am I thinking about creepy crawly things? Life is good, even with snakes, shrews, cockroaches, and ants. How about you?