Family news

Here in the Philippines, we had the "state of the nation" address yesterday by PNoy, and lolo was impressed.

I was too busy to watch...at 4 pm we let George, the killer Labrador, run around the garden for an hour...

Another day, another low pressure area...
more rain scheduled...

we had rolling brownouts all night, which meant getting up and lighting candles, then getting up and blowing them out... I have two battery driven lamps, so I put one in the window to light up the central garden and then used the smaller flashlight/emergency lamp to go around and light candles...at which point, the electricity came back on...

This happened three times...there was no moon last night, and there were clouds, so it was really dark, and George, our killer watch dog, is afraid of the dark...


and the generator is smoking and had to be turned off (the smaller backup generator is only for lights and fans, not strong enough for aircon).

The good news is that the clouds keep it from getting too hot so we don't need to run the aircon...

Ah the joys of living on a tropical island.