Well it's official.  The long dry season is here.  It's been the better part of two weeks, maybe even three, since the last rain of the short rainy season.  The long dry season begins near the end of November and runs into February or even March. This is truly the worst time of the year out here on the Dark Side of the Moon.  If we didn't doctor it up with Christmas decorations, I'm not sure how we would ever survive.  It's suddenly hotter.  Hot and sticky.  Showers cool the body off for what?  Thirty minutes??  Then one wonders why we even bothered.  And "everybody" is suffering from change of season colds.  Harmattan dust is beginning to show up, uninvited and unwanted.  We're needing to sweep, mop, and dust much more often.  And we know that this is just the beginning.  As we move ever deeper into Harmattan, the famous accompanying haze will blot the sun from our sky.  And dusting will eventually become an exercise in futility.  But that's in our not-to-distant future.  During the second half of the long dry season.  We've dubbed it "Dirty Season".   Maybe you live where you shovel snow.  We live where we shovel dirt!