The market goes up and the rain comes down and down and down...

Good for the stock market it seems to have leveled off, and calm down somewhat. What I mean is every time it seems to lose some ground it picks it back up within a few days, and hangs out around the same numbers give or take a few hundred, is that something good or not?

Our weather here in the sunshine state reminds me of the saying watch out for what you wish for...we had all wished for rain, since we had been in a severe drought with forest fires continuing to cause horrors for many, and now that the spicket has been turned on, I want to know who has the off switch? Although, believe it or not the weather guy just said we are still four inches short of what we should have by now, huh? It hasn't stopped for days, and now they are saying we have a tropical wave in the Caribbean! That usually is what they say before we get a tropical storm that turns into a hurricane…wait a minute it isn’t June first yet! You see that is when our hurricane season begins, like clockwork every year. I have always wondered how the weather knew that, and it stops by November 30th; really smart weather. He is so cavalier with his predictions our local man, whose in the know, for weather wise, that is, and he says that, the ‘low’ in the southern Gulf that right now who knows what will happen; we will just have to keep an eye on that! You betcha I will and on you too! These weather folks down here are our lifelines to our recent years of disasters, some could even be considered heroes. When I ended up in my hallway that time because of the last minute turned that Hurricane Charley decided to take back on August 13. 2004; it was all because I was watching the weather news guy who told me, when I was all alone at that time with just the pets, my hubby came home a while later at 5 P.M. if I recall, and he came in the hallway with me just before our mighty oak (30’) tree fell across our front lawn blocking our front door and just missing his deputy vehicle by inches. He, my hubby was also there to keep our home from imploding since our neighbor’s roof took out our guest-room window causing the hallway doors I had closed around us to jiggle like in the movie, Poltergeist. He had the smarts to tie the dog’s leash to the door knobs to keep them closed. Our puppy, now five has not enjoyed storms ever since. He doesn’t go berserk like some dogs but he does get rather clingy towards me. The poor thing was just five and half months old when we had the first of those hurricanes, traumatic for most humans and pets that have intellect too.
Ah, weather, can’t live without it, whether or not we like it when we get it.
Earthquakes, tornadoes, snow storms, mudslides, floods we all live with some type of weather that can threaten what we hold near and dear, and there is not a corner of the world where you can escape it so we all must be aware, hunker down at times, and listen to the authorities. If this is a sampling of what we may be in for it looks like we may be in for a rocky ride! But lives are more important than any things remember that the next time you are asked to evacuate, just do it! I will too.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings (they are portable) and I will too!

The Veggie Garden is Getting Nature's Moisture

This evening it is raining, and I guess we are now officially experiencing our 22nd fall in Florida, welcome to all who dare to come!
The temperatures have gone way down, right this minute it is a rain cooled 77!
To be fair we did stay in the low 90's most of today, although I did not miss my chance to swim in a chilly 87 degree pool.
Of course I'm kidding; it really was just delightful as usual.

How soon we do forget swimming in the Atlantic Ocean off of the Jersey Shore in mid summer as children and young adults, when the water temperature was a balmy 70, if lucky!
But even there the air temperature could climb to 90 or beyond in late summer; that is, and we used to say how refreshing those contrasted temperatures were.
Now it would just seem frosty to my Florida thin-skin without any blood, since these last 22 years that we have adapted to warmth and moisture in all forms.

After the fall and when the Hurricane Season ends on November 30th, still don’t know how it knows how to stop right on that day; anyway then we go into our Dry Season.
Who says Florida doesn’t have seasons!

This just in: Our veggie garden is getting too much moisture, and being inundated with massive rain drops, and is floating away!
Sad as this seems to me... with all that is going on in the world this is a minuscule detail for us that we can fix, and we will!
The best part of this rainfall is... that it is not a hurricane or even a tropical storm; just generic rain. That realization means a lot in this neck of the woods as you can well imagine.

The world of Wall Street is still in upheaval; hopefully the powers that be will do something or have already have, who knows. We can only pray at this point that somebody does!

Barrels of Petrol have gone up again, big surprise there.

Yankee Stadium has been retired and will be replaced next spring with a younger version of itself, seems even inanimate objects have to suffer age discrimination!
Personally I do have a Yankee Stadium connection, at the age of ten way back in 1960, I got to see a game played there due to me being a member of my Ridge Ranch Elementary Schools fifth grade Safety Patrol. The next summer I had the privilege of going to Penner's Lake Day Camp in Upper Saddle River NJ where Roger Maris and Moose Scarron had their baseball camp. Both of their sons road the camp bus with me and I led the songs all the way home! Roger Maris broke a record I think that year; a little known fact (LOL); of 61 home runs!

Good night to all and to all stay dry!