Month: July 2023

Woof

Published by Karawynn on 16 July 2023

You know, I promised three posts about ‘what happened to June’, but more properly the third one should be subtitled ‘what happened to July’. The short version is: a starving, fearful stray puppy turned up in our shared garden on June 26. After about 36 hours of exploring rescue options (currently nonexistent) and Very Serious Discussions, Jak and I decided…

Learning to Grow

Published by Karawynn on 2 July 2023

Part two of three on “What the hell happened to June?” (It’s not so much that I think even the five people reading this blog will care that much about my garden, but that I guess I’ve reached the point where I want to write things down as much for my future self as for anyone else, my memory being…

Here Comes the Rain Again

Published by Karawynn on 1 July 2023

This is a three-part update, subtitled “What the hell happened to June?” So one thing about living in Mexico that is very different from the US (or Canada, or the UK): we don’t really have four seasons here. That’s because the spring-summer-fall-winter progression is a phenomenon specific to temperate latitudes, and most of Mexico is sub-tropical or tropical. In Köppen-Geiger…