It's too hot

Yesterday we went back to the biblioteca to take out books. I took out five (the max, of course):
El Principito, a book of short stories Esther suggested I read, and three science books (a small encyclopedia about the Earth, a book on alternative energy, and a bio book --> I would.). I'm super excited about them and now all I want to do is read!

I also found this magazine in the library which I am now in love with. It's called Integral, and it's about food/nutrition, energy, sustainability, and international issues. It's wonderful. And they have a website: www.larevistaintegral.com. Go look.

When we got back from our trip into town, I finally got to work with Lola in el huerto! It was exciting. It looks pretty sad right now because it is summer and it's too hot for most of the plants to grow very much, but I got to see what everything is, and I saw a few baby eggplants, tomatoes, and zucchinis growing. In the garden, I watered the plants and added compost to them. Lola told me the compost was made just of our old food, but she was definitely lying because my hands STILL smell like poop.

I learned today that I am the worst cleaner in the world. I tried to mop the floors yesterday, but apparently I used too much soap so now they look really ugly. Lola had given me the soap in a little open cup, so I just assumed she had measured out the amount she wanted me to use. NOPE. She had given me all of the soap; she just happens to keep it in a little measuring cup. Of course this was the one time I decided to go all out and mop every single floor, so the entire house looks terrible and all of the floors have this weird ugly film of soap/dirt on them. Another thing I learned: when you mop with too much soap it takes a very very very long time to fix the damage. WOO!

Thus, I have spent almost the entire morning mopping and remopping and mopping again and remopping again and again and again with water and ammonia trying to take off the soap. Every time I finish it looks promising; everything is shiny and clean and beautiful. Then it dries and the weird crustiness comes back! UGH. Hopefully I will be able to fix them soon...

I also learned today that there is a part of the awning above the part of the awning that nobody can see that nobody can see either, and of course Lola wants me to paint that too. I like it up there though because there is a lot of cool stuff on the roof for me to explore, and Lola sealed all of the beehives I was worried about.

A word about the beehives: this part of the awning has little holes in it literally every 5 inches leading into what is probably the most intricately networking beehive I have ever seen. I saw a huge black bee the size of my second toe (just his body, no wings or stinger included in that size measurement) go into one of the holes. He was huge and fat and slow and loud and I do not want to see him again. So Lola came and sprayed insecticide into all of the holes and then covered them up with cement! She can do everything.