And the rain rain rain came down down down

I didn’t know the rain could knock out the satellite signal, but I’m watching it do it right now. Signal strength drops from the low 60’s to single digits and bounces around as, I assume, the cloud layers roll by. We’re still in Villa Corona, a small town along the road from Guadalajara to Colima. Jamie has been fighting a weeks’s worth of headaches and has been bedridden for the past two days. Today the boys joined him, with fevers, and tiredness and headaches. I dosed them with garlic, water and Vitamin C every two hours and by bedtime the boys had made a good recovery, but Jesse is still complaining of a light headache. Jamie is completely incopacitated with his. He has also been fighting a longer fever but if he isn’t much improved tomorrow, we will head to the doctor. He has been sick off and on ever since I took the blog down, enough that we haven’t had a chance to talk about the whole blogging thang, but I’m making an executive decision and posting.

The rains have come to the highlands. Last night we were treated to a spectacular show of luz y sonido (everywhere you go, you see these sings advertising “luz y sonido” (light and sound) shows but we’ve never gone. Last night, Mother Earth gave us a freebie. The rain started late but the thunder and thunder clouds had begun at dinner. Low rumbling, slight complaining, but nothing that we haven’t been seeing and hearing for weeks. By late in the night the sky was flashing the thunder was booming and I had one scared boy sitting with me; Ellen slept. Jesse was in the midst of a good fever and was delusional. He was clearly talking gibberish and jumping here and there. I was able to distract him by keeping him on the couch and getting a cold rag on his face. That focused him enough to stop the delusions. Whenever the boys get high fevers at night, they tend to do this. I’m still not sure if it is a sleepwalking thing (though they have never sleep walked) or a hallucinatory thing. They boys were discussing it at breakfast this morning, Jesse denying any delusionary actions and Pike insisting. I tried to remember it, as I knew you all would love to hear it, but you’ll have to imagine it; my brain is fried. I doubt we’ll get to Patzcuaro; we spent 9 days at Tepic (anticipating only 2) and have extended our stay here (though it KILLS me to do so, at $23 a night ) by double the anticipated amount, so I’m going to slowly guide our rag-tag bunch border bound.

You’d think I’d have so very much more to say after being silenced for so long, and I’ll respond to all the lovely emails and comments when I get the computer again. Jamie and the boys have monopolized it (sick, they are, you know) and Ellen has broken, yet again, my Toshiba. I think I only had that beast for a couple weeks before she killed the screen again… Luckilly, I got the Thinkpad T40 into the IBM plant in Guadalajara before the warranty ran out and we should be getting it back in a couple weeks. So, once I get a chance to use the computer again, I’ll post, but please send some healing vibes to the midwest, where my sister’s husband has lost his father and very southwards to us in Mexico, with 3 sick males.