The Maya eat almost everything fresh.  They think frozen food tastes funny.  And many Maya families don't have a refrigerator anyway. All of the meat is cut fresh and beef and pork and chicken are readily available from one of three different vendors in the Pueblo 7 days a week.  They take a different day to slaughter so they don't compete with each other.  Beef is 130 pesos per kg.  Pork is 120 pesos per kg. and Chicken is about 100-110. However, most Maya families keep a pig or two in the back yard and multiple chickens for their own family consumption.  Salvador, my superintendent was slaughtering his pig Saturday night and on Monday morning brought me a kg of fresh pork ribs.   My price:  100 pesos!  About $5.20 USD or $2.52 USD per pound.   They were delicious and I guess would cost four times as much in the states? Video link

  Rainy season in Yucatan begins about the middle of May and continues thru September.  That means it usually rains in the afternoon for about 15 to 45 minutes.  Clear sky before, and clear sky afterward.   But I noticed this week, that the fruit trees and asparagus ground is very dry.  It's been nearly 3 weeks since we got a rain.  That is too long without water.   We got out all the water hoses and connected them and started spraying today, and I see now that we should plan on doing this once a week, unless we get a good rain in between.   I found that a slow 10-count on everything gets the ground pretty soaked.

  These are not my first bananas.   I made 2 other bunches on trees that the wind knocked down before ripe.   The banana plant is not really a tree.  It is a succulent, so it does not get a woody trunk.  Actually, banana "trees" are a fruit making firm.   But now I'm got 2 trees with clusters on them and have taken care to get them propped up good to withstand the weight and the wind.   These are about 60 days from being ripe and ready to eat.