It's that time of year here in Honduras where they burn the sugar cane fields. This results in ashes EVERYWHERE. My house is a typical Honduran house where the walls and roof don't meet (there are not ceilings...) this makes it quite easy for the ashes to drift in as they wish. Nothing like waking up looking in the mirror and you look like a native warrior! Ok...it wasn't that bad, i just had an ashy smudge on my cheek...there must have been an ash on my pillow. It did teach me one thing, make sure I actually look in a mirror before I answer the door or go out in public...something I don't always do.
Not only does the soot end up in my bed, but in every nook and cranny of my house, in my pila, on my door step, on my nice clean laundry hanging on the line, etc. I was doing dishes outside the other day, the has become my custom since the water is so scarce lately. It's too much of a pain to keep filling up a bucket and bringing it into the kitchen, it makes it much easier just to wash the dishes in my pila. Anyway, I looked up and it was like it was snowing...the big difference it was black chunks falling out of the sky. I tried to snap a picture of it, but it looked like I was just trying to take a picture of a cloud! :)
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