Monsoon Evenings

Let's face it, Monsoons are a pain in the ass! I know, I know, I watch the BBC Nature Specials where humans and animals breathlessly await the onset of the rains with the kind of anticipation only appropriate to the first stolen kiss behind the stands at the game in 8th grade. The result is about the same, anticipation never matches the reality of flooding, mosquitos, cobras chasing toads for winter, everything growing like it has had a massive injection of steroids, etc...
Except, the sunsets! Sitting outside with a large industrial fan providing jet exhaust velocities to divert the mosquitos, at least the ones that are dumber than the ones crawling up your leg and heading for your crotch. But the sunsets, a couple of examples are hereby attached. 
Sun rays streaming across the sky, cumulo nimbus clouds limned with bright silver, the anticipation that all of this is just a prelude to later when it gives way to the worrywart in me wondering if that pinhole leak in the roof is still patched or not. If those very expensive ceiling tiles are not going to get dripped on. I should have made the window overhangs longer -- you know, the crap that every frustrated home improver wonders about. Its like watching a Tibetan monk worrying his beads, except I only chant to myself, of course.
Ahh, but those sunsets. They almost make it worthwhile, especially when a rare visitor arrives, who has already been subjected to temperature checks, bent over and grabbed their ankles, turned their head to the left and coughed.
"Let me see if your N95 emblazoned mask is the real thing, not a pale imitation from Wildcraft being sold at Rs 400 for a little piece of cloth."
The first three checks are for my amusement only and to gauge the sincerety of their visiting wish...
Then my wife and I can enjoy "Schadenfreude", which is German for (Glee at someone else's misfortune) or in our case, "Yeah, I know you envy where we live, but you DON'T live here, do ya?" A sport which one can only indulge in when you truly have a beautiful spot to spend the Pandemic in...


Yah wanna beer? Lichis just picked from our tree, some chips? Just hold still, turn your head to the left and cough twice..(I remember those Air Force exams too well!!)



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