All quiet on the eastern front in this pseudo normalcy world by this pseudo normalcy gal!

Right this minute anyway, or perhaps I should say as I write this now at this very moment!
It's the weather that I am speaking about its all the rage as the kids say,(Maybe a century or two ago.) anyway a timely conversation when not speaking of the PLAGUE AKA PANDEMIC AKA COVID-19!!!

Colorado of all states have a meteorological department and they have all the best equipment for predicting our hurricanes... strange location for such a tropical weather system program at their university I presume https://tropical.colostate.edu/Forecast/2020-08.pdf, but I digress, anyway, a few days ago they upped the usual 12 named storms a season to 24 for our 2020 Hurricane Season, and since we already had 9 of them we are ticking that nasty predict quite literarily faster than we have in 15 years!!!

Thus my opening statement. At this time the locals, i.e. meteorologist are saying there is something out there right now with ONLY a 20% chance of developing...Whew!

The season as many know starts every June first and runs through November 30th... although one year we were still going, ticking off the storms well into JANUARY!!!
By then they use the Latin letter names.

So being a resident of the state of Florida 34 years this month on the 19th, we have been getting even more prepared. That is Hubby replacing, finally, our bedroom protection over our windows that had been thick plywood with the old acceptable clamps with now corrugated aluminum shutters as the rest of the house is except the front picture windows that are galvanized.

Our new roof installed two years ago was nailed and glued on, so we will be pretty much hard to knock down and invincible!
That is unless we get a storm surge of ten feet or more, our elevation is just nine feet above the waterline.

For Hurricane Irma in early September of 2017, we received an early morning robocall to evacuate due to concern over a storm surge of 15 feet, which thankfully never did occur.
Hubby seems to believe it would have to take quite a while to come to us. Refresher of where we are in proximity of the harbor, red stick pin is our home, so close, but two canals a bridge and a few more canals until Charlotte Harbor, a ten-minute boat ride.

Concerned but not too worried. 

  

Moving on to this morning's sunrises photos, again twenty minutes apart!

Moving on again to...

PRESIDENT NEXT!

VOTE FOR JOE! VOTE FOR JOE! VOTE FOR JOE! VOTE FOR JOE! VOTE FOR JOE!

Sanity runs in his family, and kindness, and smarts! Plenty of experience too! Did I mention EXPERIENCE! And level headed clear thinking!

Possible running mates for Joe...shortlist  https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-floyd-death-reshapes-biden-104049419.html:

https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-needs-joe-biden-111108051.html

And so we must go...

Be smart and be safe! 

Happy good night to all!

Count those blessings and we will too!

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

Take it, Bella! ( I am a Maltese Yorkie, a Morkie, and I might be four years old! We are all rescues so no one knows for sure.)I did this so I will be.

Aussie shut it down!

(I am an Australian Shepherd, an interesting factoid I was supposed to be a miniature but...as you might know I AM NOT! But I am now over two and a half years old, so I am the baby HA! I was three months old when Mommy and Daddy adopted me.)

No tail/tale publishing circa 2018.

Don't forget us too! 

Easy as Aussie, Bella, Chance, now you got it!

And me Chance, I am a Bichon Frise mix, first I thought Maltese but now I am considering poodle? I am pictured here with Mom and Dad at the Port Charlotte Animal Welfare League! I am five years old they think.