Nothing, then everything

Just when you think life is fine and all is well… accidents happen!

An eight car pile up on I75 at our Punta Gorda, Florida mile 165, one dead and two in critical condition traffic still being stopped and redirected north on I75 is closed basically from that section. No information on why the crash occurred.

Only that apparently a dump truck was involved and may have caused the deadly accident, just in @ 6 P.M.: it (the dump truck) rear ended a car and caused the chain reaction, no names have been released.

Earlier today another crash just a few blocks from here our home was with a sheriff’s deputy who had caused an accident at Kings Hwy and rte 41/Tamiami Trail. No deaths but the last info were the deputy was being treated for minor injuries and that the cause was running the light.

In a split second lives can change, as always this is another wake up call and is definitely frightening. So close to home, we could even know the people hurt or the dead one, but so far no names have been released.

All our immediate family has been accounted for.

Moving on…

Perspective once again is a tough teacher in life of what truly counts.

In the snap of ones fingers things can change forever.

I know that we all have problems.

Some feel better discussing them and some do not.

It is what it is.

Hubby mowed our lawn today with it having grown due to untimely “dry season” rain and very sunny weather added in and it being a high of eighty six degrees, breaking or meeting the record in many areas of south west Florida, some places even had eighty seven degrees, on Page Field in Ft. Myers!

The norms for March are sixties at night and mid-seventies or low eighties during the day, and yes we are running higher than normal and contrary to public opinion this is NOT happening to annoy any of our friends to the north or west of our country it just is, really! LOL!

What can I say? It happens every once and a while… weather that is perfect, but more times than not here in PARADISE! So sorry didn’t mean to gloat, oh YES I DID! Big smile inserted here.

“Ah Florida if you don’t like the weather at one time of day, wait a bit and it will change to something you like better”, a localism.

Add in the other local expression or commercial sales pitch, like “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas”, “Virginia is for Lovers”, ours in Florida has been, “The rules are different here!”

Vague or profound we all can interpret that anyway you wish.

Many believe that the mañana attitude of the islands starts here in our land that mimics the islands’ appeal with a laid-back tropical feel, of no rushing; things can wait until tomorrow, "mañana".

In conclusion; mine:

Odd how accidents can happen without logical reasoning, sure our weather has been perfect except for one little issue, fog.

We are a state surrounded by water on three sides, a peninsula and when the water temperature has gone down into the sixties and not gone up as of yet and the air temperatures have gone up, quite a bit, twenty degrees higher, you get ungodly FOG!

Now I am not saying it caused these newest accidents, when the bigger one happened it had lifted by mid-day, the morning one with the deputy might, I am only saying might have been a factor since it was in the morning, but I do not even know if that was the cause.

So even though we do not have snow we too have weather and things that make driving difficult we even have something called Florida ice, which is when after a severely dry season it does rain the oil and grease from vehicles causes the roadways to be very slippery until the rain neutralizes the roads surfaces and can become quite hazardous.

Paradise is not always perfect either, so there you have it!

On that note of rude awakenings, allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who, we will too!

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