A REAL RAINY SEASON

TOURISTS STAY HOME !   It is summer in Florida and yet this is the time of year all the vacationers come bounding down I 95 to enjoy their summer vacation.  I don't think they really think this through. It's like going from the frying pan into the fire, if you will excuse my using such and old saying. But then again,  maybe they are better off down here since the rest of the country seems to be burning up at a rapid rate.  How is it that we are cooler in South Florida than in North Dakota or Maine? WE are actually 10-20 degrees cooler here and loving it.
But we also have to consider that summer is the rainy season and rainy it has been.  My pool is overflowing with rain, the lake is almost over flowing it's banks and hopefully Lake Okeechobee is filling up with our drinking water for the next year. Mother Nature sure does like to mess with all of us. One part of the country literally burning up with forest fires, NYC burning up with heat and humidity and we here in the South are laying by the pool in a gentle rain and cool breezes loving life. (Yes, we do stay out by the pool in the rain because we are wet any way. But as soon as those really BIG storm clouds move in in the late afternoon we head inside to avoid the lightening.)  It has been a noisy summer with thunder rolling around every afternoon, sometimes with lightening and rain but mostly just the thunder. It's like there is a show every afternoon around 4.  Last night we went to watch a baseball game and the sky opened just as they were starting the 9th inning. Our beloved Hammerheads were beating the Tampa Yankees 4-2 and the Yankees were about to get up for their last chance to score and BOOM, the rain came down in buckets. We left so I have no idea if they ever got to try to win.
I did hear that the ocean was quite rough these days. Besides being the rainy season it is also hurricane season and there are always storms churning up the Atlantic. Since we haven't been to the beach in over a year I can't say for sure what the beaches are like. Maybe I'll get down there with some of the grand kids next week when they are all visiting.