While Ohio is caught in the grip of temperatures in the single digits, India is preparing to enter summer. When I arrived the average daily high was 84 degrees. Only a little over two weeks later, it has already climbed to daily highs of 94, which is well ahead of the normal weather pattern. The nights mercifully cool down to 70 which gives my room a chance to cool off. This old seminary building was closed more than 40 years ago as unsuitable and reopened in desperation for a place to house the newly created Bishop. I have no a/c and the stone holds the heat from the day.
Here in Andhra Pradesh, the harvest has just been completed along with the Indian version of our Thanksgiving holidays. The rice crop has been collected and is being stored, the tomatoes are in from the fields, and everyone is anticipating the harvest of cantalopes and watermelons. The Old Age home has its own rice paddy and they told me the professional rat catchers caught 1750 rats before they harvested the rice. In India, the standard is a 30% loss of the harvest to rats and the pros get 3 rupees per animal using net-like traps. I'm glad I missed that part of the fun.
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