One Hundred.  So says my husband, about the “Cien Pies” (Centipede) we’ve seen in both the dry area of El Salvador in Chalatenango, in the Northwest, and Los Planes, just to the south of San Salvador.  The shot on newspaper gives you an idea of the size of this creepy crawly critter. This one is [...]

Today is the first day of August, and Friday after work marked the official start of the “Vacaciones Augostinos,” August Vacation week in El Salvador.   Today is also Sunday, but being as it’s Sunday for me every day, I decided to “make hay while the sun shines” and get some serious washing done.  Here in [...]

The rain came.  It literally did come down in cats and dogs and a very close-hit bolt of lightning with thunder cracked and scared the dickens out of my actual cat and dog. The roof of our house does not have gutters attached, but extensions added to it to move the rain further away from [...]