We will be a few degrees cooler in the Western Visayas region where The Bonehead my Sainted Patient Wife live, and the humidity is low today, around 68 %. The average humidity in Guimaras is 88% The heat has prompted health authorities to warn the public to take precautions against heat stroke, and to brace for even hotter days ahead.
I cannot begin to tell you how glad we are at "The Compound" that we have installed our aircon in the bedroom. We have a fan for my mother-in-law, The Feared Giant Lizard Killer, but she sleeps in her room without using it! She is so used to the heat, and even closes all of her bedroom windows at night!
The rainy season will soon be starting next month and lasting until the end of October. The dust is so thick! I clean my computer and computer desk daily, and so far my computer has been holding up. I didn't think I would welcome the rains again, but actually am looking forward to them.
The Sainted Patient Wife and I have been in the Philippines since last July 15, 2009, and our first year anniversary here is rapidly approaching. We're hoping for a tax refund that will finance a return visit to the States before the year is up. My balikbayan visa is good for a year, and I can get a visa extension at the Immigration Office in nearby Iloilo City if necessary.
But if you get really hot, guess you could join the folks in the photo above and down some San Miguels. This picture was taken at the recent Manggahan Festival in Guimaras, and as you can tell by the banner, San Miguel Beer was a big sponsor of the event. Try to stay cool wherever you are, and if you can't stay cool, then just be cool. I know all of my faithful Rooster Readers are already cool!
I know hot it feels " to be HOT" in PI. When we left Marinduque, three weeks ago, it was only 34 C, but I was glad to be back here in Northern California where the temperature ranges from 55 to 70 degrees F. Cheers, Tokayo!
Oh, my goodness, I would absolutely have to have air conditioning in that kind of heat. One of the reasons I love San Francisco is that it is cool – naturally – day time temperatures rarely above 70 any time of the year and it's down to about 55 at night.
I have a wonderful friend, Filipina, who married a Greek doctor, retired. They have a lovely home in Corinth, Greece but, several years back, also built an incredible home in Iloilo
( it looks like a villa! ). They spend part of the year there and part in Greece. Lady tells me, though, that travel is so hard on Michael that, once they return to Greece in a couple of months, they will probably stay there ( she is about 20 years younger than her husband ).
How I envy you, David. That is one thing I do miss, the cooler temperatures I enjoyed back in the Midwest. Thanks for the comment!
Beautiful weather you have in San Franciso, RNSANE. I would love those temperatures, and here I am in the Philippines, but with the air conditioning now.
That sounds like a very beautiful home your Filipina friend has in Iloilo, but too bad about her husband not being able to handle the travel anymore. The Philippines is such a great place to live.
I think my doctor friend wanted to build the home in the Philippines for Lady ( Isidra ) to have to return to after he dies since he knew she would not want to live in Greece without him. She posted pictures of it on Facebook and it is so beautiful, wonderful garden and grounds. Her mother lives there which is nice and, when they are there as they have been for at least half a year for the last several years, she has help caring for him ( Michael fell while pruning their olive trees some years back and is now in a wheel chair! ). There is also a cook and a gardener though Lady loves to work in the yard. Their home in Greece is another show place.
He retired after years as a vascular surgeon and the two met when they worked as a ship's doctor and nurse on a cruise ship. After they married, they would travel several months out of the year, doing just that!
One of the reasons we moved to the Philippines is also that I knew my wife would be cared for in the Philippines by her family since I am also older than my wife. Sounds like your friend married a good man.
Michael was divorced a number of years, and a retired vascular surgeon, when he met Lady. He was reluctant to marry her, a woman so much younger, worried about her having to care for him, ultimately, but she was thirty, I think, and had not married. He was a wonderful man and they did fall and love. It took them nearly two years of red tape to get her paper work completed to come to Greece. In the meantime, he would agree to work on cruise ships as the medical officer but only if she would be hired as one of the nurses so they manged to see each other. This terrible fall which left him with hip and spinal fractures has been devastating but did not destroy their relationship…a wonderful, remarkable international couple!
Sound like a great love story, RNSANE. Thanks for sharing it.
I chatted with a ten year old girl in Antipolo the other day, she said it was really hot! For a Filipina (dalagita) to say it's hot I belive her! She is a friend. We visited her whole family back in April of last year. I love the Philippines!
I have heard many Filipinos here, Randall, say that exact thing in the last few weeks here. Glad I finally got that air con.
I love the Philippines, too, my friend. It's a great place, isn't it?
WOW 100 degree heat, yesterday morning I awoke to snow falling still. Although I am not envious of 100 degree heat either. I wouldn't mind somewhere in the middle.
By the way I like the new changes you made here. You are always tinkering, which is good, never know what new things you come up with.
Hi Glenn, at MOB! Too hot for me, my friend, just glad we got that air con installed so we can sleep at night. Snow! What's that?
Thanks for the comment about the new layout. You're still the master!