Super Mercado Lily's

As I've mentioned before, Lily's is my favorite store. It is a grocery store with household goods and construction materials...all in one store and it's not that big.

You can get almost anything at Lily's.

You have to ask for most of the stuff and they go get it. Today I needed some more paint thinner. So I ask and he says, "un momento, por favor."

I wait and wait and wait for about 5 minutes. I can't imagine what's going on.

Out he comes with a litter plastic pop bottle filled with paint thinner! I guess they have a 55 gallon drum of it in the back and they fill containers to whatever quantity you want.

It's been a long time since I've seen this way of dispensing goods.

It has been cloudy, rainy and foggy for 5 days now. I'm still not tired of it. But...

We had floods in Boquete yesterday. This is that time of year.

The weather starts to come in from the north, dumping rain on the continental divide above Boquete. The water comes rushing down the mountain and plays havoc in town.

The north and west side of town got hit the worst. Olga's restaurant was full of water and mud last night. 6 of them cleaned it out all evening and she was open for business this morning.

That couldn't have been a pleasant evening.

We had the normal inch or so of rain yesterday at our house. Just 2 miles to the north, they had floods. Fickle weather.

The Independence Day parades have all gone on...they are in the morning and, for the most part, don't get too much rain.

Everyone in town, or so it seems, has a drum and is beating on it. No other instruments, just drums.

They love to make noise here!

This rainy, foggy weather is supposed to last until Friday. A big low pressure is just off the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica. It is expected to become a Tropical Depression and maybe worst, going North into Honduras and the Yucatan.

Big storm time of year. I hope Yella's plain gets out from David Thursday night.