Thursday, June 27, 2013

You know summer is here when...



You have rain daily!
And that rain has come in a little later than usual for us; it is mostly an afternoon event in our summers due to the clash of heavy humidity with hot, hot, hot, temperatures and boom, you get stormy weather!

After I wrote just one sentence a little while ago we had a flicker of power going off and thankfully this old fashioned PC that started out as a Gateway brand one, but has since been fractured into newer parts when the older ones died of natural deaths, and it is plugged into a surge protector, just like our 160 Lb. large screen 32” Sony TV in the breakfront in the living-room!

If all gets fried, these two electronics will live on…to our detriment sadly, both are nine years old this year. Our deductible on our homeowners’ insurance is more than they are worth now anyway. Oh well…

Life goes on… with us in Sun Country, our nickname for our coast here is the ‘Sun-Coast’ in southwest Florida, which is redundantly called the ‘Sunshine State’! For we know that it shall return, sun that is! More than likely in the morning, ha! Although, our meteorologist on our NBC-2 station out of Fort Myers Florida, Robert Van Winkle is saying it is in the morning for the next several days that us here on the south-west coast, coast will be having rain ala in the morning? Not our usual way to conduct beach time here, although, now many can sleep in who were planning on an early get to the sun and fun type of day! Touristas now you know what to expect here for tomorrow and the next few days, okay? Rest assure that the day will get better early on and as of yet a return trip of afternoon showers has not been predicted, swim/surf/sunbathe on… dudes and dudettes!
The rain always has a way of making me nervous, not the rain itself it’s just innocent water and we can always use some of that, not too much, just enough, but it’s with that lightning being embedded in it; and that thunder can be scary too, but a nifty warning!
But that lightning is deadly and this, our lovely state of Florida, also has the notorious distinction of being the ‘Lightning Capital’ of the entire country that is of USA!
Safety is of the utmost importance when you hear those thunder boomers; don’t count how faraway it is, TAKE COVER INDOORS AND AWAY FROM WINDOWS!  The idea of out running lightning could prove fatal and has too many times to too many, sadly, two just this week!



Moving on…

Rewind: Yesterday, when we went out to lunch at the Goal Post, sports grill and bar we had a funny experience. My right ornamental lens from my eyeglasses fell out and I was neatly tucked into my table and I had to roll out and pray that I did not roll over it… although it is plastic like all are today…any-who, Hubby found it on the carpeted floor and it was fine and the tiny screw in the bridge of the frames was oddly enough still there!
And so when the waitress came upon the odd scene of me rolled out and us both staring at the floor she wondered what was up and we told her. We ordered our lunches and Hubby kiddingly said that if you have a screwdriver too.
Actually, Hubby had his miniature multi-tools set in our car and so he took my glasses outside with him and in a jiffy he was back with them all fixed!

When our order arrived not only did the server deliver our fish plates and Hubby’s coffee and my iced tea but a screwdriver too! The funny part was it was the type that you drink! The server must have written it down and forgot about the eyeglass incident! She laughed as she took the beverage away, but said we could have it; Hubby said he doesn’t drink and drive and I said that I am on too many meds, but in the day, I kinda liked screwdrivers, the drinking kind that is…ha!

On that silly note of what fun life can be when you let it, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you kindly to count all your blessings and share all those overages with you know who and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear!

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