Dear Friends wrote and told us about their latest snow storm and we replied:

 

"That is so amazing that you are having more snow.  We're trying not to be green with envy as we lay in our bed sweating away.  The fans are on 24-7 now days.  It's useless to take showers to cool off.  It feels good for a brief moment, but then we are sticky hot again and wonder why we bothered.  This is truly the only nasty time of the year.  As we near the end of the season we are longing for the rains to come back.  We are longing for the end of "dirty season" where we shovel dirt in contrast to Americans shoveling snow.  We are dreaming of those wonderful torrential rains that we are so famous for.  It does not rain cats and dogs out here.  The rain comes down in sheets.  We know that Harmattan will not go on forever.  We know that there is an end out there somewhere.  Maybe the end of this month.  Maybe this will go on into March.  But somewhere out there the rains WILL come back.  We try not to think about it too much.  We try to live one day at a time.  We try to remind ourselves that this too will pass.  It always has in the past.  This will not go on forever, no matter what it feels like!  It takes three big rain storms to wash all the dirt out of the sky, all of the dirt off our lush tropical vegetation.  And when that third big  rain comes, we shout GLORY HALLELUJAH! as we roll up our sleeves and and joyfully jump into our annual Spring Housecleaning.  Every cupboard, every closet, every nook and cranny is covered with dirt.  We tear the house apart one room at a time, and slowly but surely our lovely Spiritual Retreat Center re-emerges.  And we live happily ever after."