That summer feeling

The best thing about summer in Troncones is the rain, and the worst thing is waiting for it to start. This is the first May since Jim and I arrived that not one drop of rain has fallen! Is it global warming? I do wonder about that since the locals have gone crazy with the field burning this year. It is amazing, 90% of the fields along the road to the highway are burned. It is a bit disturbing, but a custom that seems to be pretty well entrenched.

During the season many of our guests ask us “what is the summer like here?” “How hot does it get?” Well if you look on http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/local/MXGR0136?from=search_city you will see that it isn’t really even that hot, 90 in the day and 70 a night. The thing that is tricky is that the weather people say that it is raining all the time. Let me tell you that ain’t so!

It is hard to tell on the weather map where we are so here is a map of Mexico. Troncones is directly south of Lubbock Texas.

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The only fun thing about waiting for it to rain is the wild “rain bugs” that go off before it starts. They are like cicadas, and make this alien noise that isn’t unpleasant, but can be REALLY LOUD. It is difficult to talk on the phone outside when lots of them are singing. As soon as it starts raining they stop all at once. Then the frogs start in! It is a world of natural wonder here in the summer. The plants go crazy, the frogs are everywhere and bugs in spades. It’s great (well if you don’t mind bugs)! The hills will be green within two weeks of the first rain. It’s like magic. Can you tell that I am really looking forward to it?

At this time there aren’t many people on the beach. There is really that slow down Mexico feeling in the air. We love it! People are always asking us if the development of Troncones has effected us negatively. Well really it hasn’t. We can still go out to the beach almost any day of the week and there will be no one there or just one other couple. Maybe it is because many of the new homes around us are vacation homes not businesses. I don’t know how we got so lucky on that front.

That being said there are a few new places going up right on Manzanillo bay. A guy from Santa Barbra is building a HUGE place at the former municipal beach. It will be 18 months in construction. There is another place to the north of us, maybe 5 lots away, that is also being built. It is slated to finish the first of November, just in time for the wedding of the owner. Stress!! It doesn’t seem like either of those places will change the scene here very much, thankfully.

I love the summer.

Eva Myrth