Nature really weaves into everyday life here... In fact, chickens got in the other day and pooped on my floor. The same day I think a monkey peed on me. Fortunately, nature is kind sometimes.. Here, air conditioning units are open doors and windows and fand. So, walls only kind of distinguish between outside and in, letting the sounds--clicking birds, chirping geckos, and howling monkeys--smells--brush-burning, cow manure--and little (and big) bugs (see picture) of nature in. And right now, an enormous lizard is clanging around on my roof.
Likewise, life spills out onto the yard, where everyone lounges in a turmoil of hammocks, pig pens, and mango trees. See the horse picture below.
Finally, nature makes an ostentatious show in public. Dogs (and more dogs) sleep on the sidewalk and road. In several restaurants, a cat has climbed onto the table where I am sitting and made my books and paper into a cozy table-top bed.
For good measure, here's Tomato Frog (he hangs out in the tomato planter).
soo coooooll
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