This morning was incredibly cold! I woke up tense (or frozen). It's 45 F! Oscar and the kids left for school and I was thinking about going back to bed, but NO WAY! The thought of those icy sheets is just too much. It's been colder, but today we just feel it a little more, maybe just me. I put Edson to sleep in a snow suit last night!
The beautiful thing about Paraguay is that even with this "fierce cold" the flowers are beautiful! The leaves fall off the trees but leave behind beautiful buds and flowers that brighten up the sky.
Also, in this cold, people are very actively preparing Typical Foods of Paraguay. Schools, neighborhoods and small groups gather together around a coal burner to fry, cook, barbecue and toast different foods like mbeyu, chipa, and so many others for fund raisers. There is always a table of 'cocido' a hot tea with or without milk. The yerba is mixed with sugar and a coal is thrown on top and burned together (the smell is incredible). Boiling water is poured on top of that mixture and it is a very tasty drink on a very cold day.
Once, when my sister was here, we brought our coal burner in the house (and open the glass windows, of course) and just sat around it trying to warm up our hands. In hopes to warm up the kitchen for a while last night, I made chipas and we drank cocido.
Soon...the sun will come out and I will be warm again.
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Oh, my.
We've been sitting with fans running, pushing for cooler air. We just don't want to turn on the AC yet, and hike up the electric bill.
Next week it's back to the cooler 70s and rainy.
Hot drinks and hot soups do warm you all the way up.
People are never happy with the weather, are they? It's hot here, like your mom said, and I'd like some cooler breezes but I'd rather have it cooler ALL the time- it's easier for me to add clothes than to- BLUSH - remove any!
Keep warm Karen!
Ooooo, should Laurel bring winter clothes?
Some like it hot, some like it cold...all at the same time! Remember traveling in the red van when some of the boys wanted the windows open, and other people wanted them closed? "I'm hot!" "I'm freezing", all the way to Connecticut! (and back) Am glad God makes the decisions, not us. Saves a lot of arguing and fussing.
I'm soooo glad we missed that!!
a.peg, we wanted the windows open for another reason. There were some boys back there that made us NEED the windows open! :)
And we always thought it was either freezin' or fryin'! Not surprised of the other reasons either.
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