one rainy summer in the island...

[the de los reyes ancestral house in san jose de buenavista, antique province]

With the Lenten Season being quite over [since it's still Easter Time in the liturgical calendar], and the frenzy of Holy Week Processions done, the Barefoot Baklesa is spending another week in Antique province, Panay Island...

Like anywhere else in the archipelago, the heat has just been intolerable; and going to the beach isn't really for the likes of the Barefoot Baklesa who is allergic to the sun like anything... Well, surprise-surprise, it's been raining here for the past three days. There are moments when the sky is just so clear and then by a mere minutes it would be so cloudy and the rain would follow. at night, the passing humidity would mean the sky could pour around 2:00 to 3:00 am...hello, Global Warming...

Being right smack-dab in the middle of town with the municipal hall and the provincial capitol flanking us on both sides, the de los Reyes Ancestral home is located along San Jose's busiest avenues... And the noise of the motor vehicles passing by is a constant reminder that I'm in Antique province. Technically, we're one of the last three families who still stay in their original family home. Most of the other families have opted to sell their properties downtown, but our family insists on staying where we are. Two fires could not move us from that spot...

As i write this,the skies have turned to grey again, I'm expecting it to pour a little later. I'm supposed to fly out to Manila two days from now to deal with work, then return for my grandmother's 92nd birthday this May 10th... The rain came a little earlier than May this year.

thus spake the Barefoot Baklesa