For the past 4 weeks Puerto Rico’s rainy season has been living up to its name especially in the past two. For the entire month it has rained everyday for at least an hour or two starting at 3:00pm like clockwork. Yesterday, much like the past two weeks, the clouds rolled in earlier around 11:30 and the downpour started at 1:30ish which lasted until after 5:00pm. Keep in mind, I am not talking a San Diego style misting, it has been coming down in buckets turning our entire yard into a mud pit dissected by tiny streams flowing downhill to the left and right side of the house.


Check out the stream flowing just to the right of the cut in the yard

Once all of this crazy rain slows down a little bit, I would like to plant grass seed over the entire yard, prioritizing the flat section in front of the house. That way, we will at least have some green surrounding our front porch. In the meantime, Jerry and I are going to finish the rock planters and steps today. Tomorrow will be a ‘clean up all the extra rock and stone’ day and then it will be time for top soil.

One of the neighbors cleared out a bunch of dirt down by the quebrada and dumped it off up by the front yard…we’ll save some money and use as much as that topsoil as possible to fill the planters and put a 2”-4” layer of dirt on top of the rock / hard pack we have out front.

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