On the Lam(b)

I’m way behind on my posting. The calendar is to blame.

The summers in Spain are a demon unto themselves. Everyone goes on vacation for weeks at a time. The sun shines for weeks and months on end. The work schedules are shortened to just, in my case, 6.5 hours a day. Everything slows down, particularly in August – plumbers, painters, electricians, etc. are impossible to find, the post office closes in the afternoons, local neighborhood bars close for the month. By the end of the summer when you’ve finally acclimated to the slothy summer ways…

September arrives. Schools are back in session. The rain starts. Work schedules are back to normal and suddenly the colleagues who wouldn’t answer the phone or return an email in July are breathing down your neck for what should have been done months ago…

I can only hope that it is September, instead of March, that comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb…