It has happened.
Finally.
After 32 days in paradise.....
It was a dull, cloudy day!
No!
Really!
Proof....
A fully cloudy sky AND it even rained enough that I had to use the windshield wipers for at least 25 seconds while I was out running errands. This is a total turn of events.
Life may change as we know it. Oh dear? Will my tan fade?
Doesn't the pool look sad all covered up with no toys in it to play with? Every day the pool is uncovered and given a couple of balls and a pool noodle to play with in it's current until the humans come in and swim around. It just looks so lonely....
Oh, wait, new day.
New sky.
And it's blue! With some puffy clouds floating by.
Phew, all is well.
Thought we might have had a crisis there. Thankfully averted. Life can now continue....
As we hear of the storm battering Colorado (news of Canada is non-existant) we are remembering what it's like to have a change in the weather. I can tell you it really doesn't down here. The humidity may come and go ( it's here right now and wow does it feel like August in Toronto outside at times) but there seems to be a breeze for the most part. Even when it was cloudy yesterday it was still humid. Like a storm wanted to come through and clear it all out but couldn't. I guess that's what it's like down here all the time.
Plants are in dormant mode right now and don't seem to mind being in a drought but what is starting to send off shoots are the huge palm trees. At this time of the season they start to send out huge spike like things straight up in the air. In a couple of weeks they'll start to open into new fronds. Right now they look like Excalibur swords sticking out of these gigantic trees. Kind of neat.
Messy trees to have are citrus trees unless you live here full time. Citrus trees ripen their fruit now and the same problem exists as with apples up north, they get all wormy and gross. Then they fall on the ground and the bees and wasps go berserk. They look cool and are fun to have if you have time to tend them. The neighbour has a limonfruit tree. This is a created hybrid of a lime, lemon and grapefruit tree and each branch gives off a different fruit. Guess it was kind of the norm to sell these things a few years ago. Now they're just weird. Again, if you don't tend to them then the fruit gets all bumpy and inedible. Strange.
So, the weather continues to be a source of amazement here in Port Charlotte. I can really see why Snowbirds come here. There is no stress of a) what to wear as it's always shorts weather and b) what the roads are like because they're always good. There are other weather related stresses but not at this time of year, at least I hope not!
Cheers from the Southwest Florida coast.
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