Today was mostly spent working on building the shade for the horses. It was a long hot tiring day but worth it. The horses already love the shade.
Our friend Isabel wrote a post about being tired all the time. It's true - we are and everyone seems to be - just tired.
It's not only physical labor, although there is a lot of that - clearing and cleaning, building ad rebuilding.
There is an underlying tension, a stress level that never quite goes away. What is the next crisis? How will we handle it? How are we managing the current crisis? It's hot - too hot to sleep comfortably and there are no fans. Another friend, Mac, said this post-hurricane is more stressful than his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. With travel difficult and cell phones and Internet not working people feel lonely, isolated, adrift without support.
A frequent question from mainlanders is. "What is it like?" I think Elaine has the best response: Nothing works the way you expect it to. Faucets and showers don't work although we turn them on anyway. Toilets don't flush unless you pour rainwater in them). Lights don't work although we flick the switches anyway expecting them to. Internet access is rare and shaky. Traffic lights don't work and traffic doesn't flow. Grocery stores are stocked randomly, although they never seem to be out of Carmelo Vienna sausages and evaporated milk. Nothing works like you expect it to and almost everything has some kind of MacGuyver-like work-around.
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