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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.