Firstly, I can’t begin to describe what it’s been like here for the last 32 days since we arrived in Merida.  There has been zero, nada, squat, niente relief on the heat.  Locals are saying that they’ve never experienced such extreme heat before in May.  The page on the calendar has turned to June and that means “the rains” are coming.  With these rains it means humidity, loads of humidity.  Deborah and I never imagined how hot it could be – we certainly heard about it, but hell, we were sure that we could handle it, so we thought.  Since the arrival of June, we’ve seen the rains that never showed it’s face in May.  The other day, we were shopping at Home Depot, picking up some items that we’ve needed for the casa and the rains started, right on schedule.  I can’t tell you the noise that the rain made on the roof, it kinda sounded like standing underneath Niagara Falls with a tin cap on your head.  It was a “torrential” downpour certainly.  We made it out to our vehicle during a brief reprieve and decided that we’d head to Wal-Mart for some groceries mainly because they have a covered, underground parking lot.  Thankfully we have a honkin Ram 1/2 ton pick-up truck at our disposal with especially high ground clearance – we needed it.  The Wal-Mart underground lot was like a lake, people we’re wading around with their grocery carts with the water up to their shins.   When the rains come down, they really come down in Merida.

We moved into our friend’s Casa on May 29th and we’ll be here for the next thirty (30) days.  Her casa was built by the same contractor that’s doing our house and this place is spectacular.  We’re very lucky people to have friends like Elizabeth who offers us such a fantastic place to stay.  As I write this update, it’s just before 9:00 p.m. and the temperature is 90 degrees outside and inside our Casita it feels like 100, despite the fans going.  The sweat is running down my face and back and I’m just sitting here in shorts.  But all we have to do is “strip off” and jump into the pool and it feels like heaven.  With electricity at a bit of a premium in Merida, we’ve tried to be energy savvy and save wherever we can and just run the fans.  It is however impossible to sleep without the air-conditioning running.  So much about our trials and tribulations with the heat, the house is coming along in leaps and bounds.  The door-guy was installing the bedroom doors on Saturday and will probably finish these up sometime mid-week.  They started laying ceramic tile in the lower walkway and they’ve finished the concrete island in the kitchen..  I can’t begin to tell you how they constructed the island, it’s built like the Rock of Gibraltar, complete with rebar and cement down into the limestone and cement and rebar on the countertop section.  We had a little set back on the kitchen design, so we’ve had to make some last minute adjustments with the positioning of the fridge (moved into what was originally the pantry doorway) and having to create a completely NEW doorway into the pantry.  In hindsight, this will be a much better kitchen layout in the end.

For those of you who have followed http://www.farfrumwurken.com from the beginning of this build, we are getting close, extremely close.  I know that it doesn’t look like it from the photographs, but when you’ve got twenty-five guys on-site every day things happen pretty quickly.  I’d like to thank everyone who’s been providing comments, it is encouraging for us to say the least.  We don’t have long now before we get the keys, so stay tuned for the final results.

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