The joys of Cd. Valles living. Cooking hot, and not nearly reaching the top yet. This is today's max temp. and humidity as per my little weather unit.
So whose idea was it to do land clearing at 110 degree weather – who exactly was the idiot – oh yah, I guess that would be me.
Yesterday Javier and I hired a crew to clear the acre or so of scrub trees along the front of the property. This is all machete work – Mexican style. I decided to go out and help them with my chain saw (thanks to Dan and Marlys Slaubaugh of Wolford, North Dakota).
I finally made it to the land site at about 3:00 o’clock after a morning and early afternoon of running around trying to put out other fires (thankfully, not literal ones today – just figurative ones this time).
My field work crew were busily finishing off with disking the field, but my machete crew were no where in sight. I can’t really say that I blame them, but this is Cd. Valles, Mexico after all, and the climate here is just hot. Not much that one can do about it.
Apparently one of the guys did show up in the morning and got some clearing done. I guess the rest of the guys decided that mañana would work just fine.
My “lonche” (lunch) that I took out for them today went uneaten. Maybe they will show up tomorrow.
I, on the other hand, did get some chainsaw work done. I will try to get an early start tomorrow and beat the extreme heat of the mid day. The thermometer reading outside was 109.7° Fahrenheit this afternoon as a high, with 68 % humidity. But the inside living room temperature was a nice, cool 100.9°, so one might as well be outside working.
I am off to bed as I have trees to cut tomorrow.
Until next time…
