Yes, I know it’s Thursday, I’m a day late; and that doesn’t worry me one bit. I took the day off yesterday as a recovery measure; a combination of exhaustion and a very cold day. I didn’t even go to work.
The south of Brazil has been hit with snow and many have had the house roofs destroyed by wind and hail; they showed hailstones the size of golf balls on TV last night, house roofs looked as though they had been peppered by a huge shotgun. Many crops were decimated as well, as this is the primary zone for cool-temperate farming, so we can expect higher prices.
Tuesday night we were hit by a cold front. After an extremely mild – hot winter (hottest and driest in 40 years) here in Rio de Janeiro, in fact most of Brazil has suffered with very low humidity extremes. Last week/weekend (I’m not sure of the day now) in my part of the city we had 14% humidity, some of the world’s deserts are more humid. Officially now we are in Spring, and the weather has decided to be winter. We went from a hot summer’s weekend (39/40°C) to winter temperatures (15/19°C) in the space of 24 hours.
Weird weather, unseasonable changes, extremes… Now tell me there is no such thing as global warming. I’m not apportioning the blame here, just saying it’s here.
Botijão de gás
My kitchen gas just ran out. Luckily, the water had boiled to make coffee, so it wasn’t quite the disaster it could have been. I was rather pleased, I had anticipated the gas would quit sometime in August, and here we are at the end of September; that’s five months from one gas bottle for all my oven heat. A bottle of gas costs about R$39 (currently that’s about USD2o).
I always buy a spare the month after I change the botijão. Most Brazilians don’t do that. Their gas runs out and they have to ring and wait for a delivery, usually about a half hour. Then there is the problem that most Brazilians don’t have money for that eventuality and have to wait for the next pay day.
On with the challenge. Actually this isn’t much of a challenge for me, because most things I don’t even have.
Life is so much less complicated here in Brazil, which is one of the reasons I love it here.
If you are moving into Spring, choose a task from this POST. Again, we’d like to know what you chose to do and how you did it.
If none of those activities appeal to you, choose a previous challenge from the list HERE. And yep … tell us about it!
Well, I have to look at the second option, because we’re heading into spring.
- I don’t spring clean – check
- I don’t even have a closet to clean out, and I don’t have things to throw out – check
- No smoke detectors, so no batteries – check
- No air filters – check
- Spring garden and compost – check
- No landscaping – check
- Walk, I don’t walk, I hobble where possible – check
- No drier, so clothes are always dried outside – check
- No air blower, Brazilians use water, I use a yard broom – check
- No grass, no mower – check
- No ceiling fan, I use two portable ones, need cleaning – check
- No fireplace, no damper to close – check
So after all that, my total contribution will be to clean both fans. Like I said, life is so much simpler here.
Have a great week everyone.
Eco-Crap 
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