Sweating out the dog days
For many full-time lakeside residents, the summer rainy season is the best time of year weather-wise.
For many full-time lakeside residents, the summer rainy season is the best time of year weather-wise.
La Virgen de Zapopan, Jalisco’s number one religious patroness, will blow into Chapala on July 8 for an annual visit that invariably falls on the second Sunday of the month, just as the rainy season comes into full force.
A couple of days remain before we learn the outcome of critical elections that will set Mexico and our lakeshore communities on a new course.
I wonder what newbie expats were thinking when they heard ear-splitting blasts of cohete rockets rip the air at mid-morning last Saturday.
It’s the time of the year when the first hint of stormy weather gives fair warning that a power failure could occur at the drop of a hat.
When the rains poured down on lakeside early last month I was dismayed to discover that my aging auto’s windshield wipers were on the fritz…again.
As if the last week’s brutal temperatures weren’t enough to put me in a funk, the local political season has turned red hot in the final countdown to next month’s elections.