Swinging
Easter week, known in these parts as Semana Santa, is probably the biggest holiday outside of Christmas, otherwise known as Navidad (Natal in Brazil). Last night, Thursday, the bar next door shut down and probably won't open again until Monday. You may have read in the news recently that Hugo Chavez shut the bars in his Catholic country down beginning at the end of last week. It strikes me as weird, an indigenous South American champion doing the bidding of the Vatican. But that's our boy Hugo. Karl Rove must be involved.
Yesterday I made all the windows on the second floor shut (more or less) correctly and gave them all latches to make them stay that way. The one problem window on the side needed to be turned inside out as years of bad construction and hinging and blowing in the wind had put it quite out of square. In this case my luck would have it that the hole in the wall more closely matched the reversed shape. There was much dangling of limbs. I've yet to devise a device to keep them open and discourage them from swinging and banging into things with the wind.
I also built my first screen frame, which for complicated reasons ultimately won't fit the window I made it for, but works perfectly for its opposite number across the room. All would seem to be going swimmingly, except for the aforementioned Semana Santa; in which not only are the bars closed for the long weekend anchoring the event, but most other businesses tend to be shuttered as well. Maybe I'll get some writing or research in this weekend.
