It was ... It isn't! Hurrah!

Yup, the Gulf Coast red tide (a 'slick' the size of Connecticut spread out 125 miles along the coast) got so wiffy (a word not in American English and amusing all my turtle friends), that we had to wear N95 masks with lavender oil!

So what does one do when it is this bad - well, help Mom move for one - so it is goodbye to this ... yup a baby grand piano in a walk-in skip/dumpster . . . (but off to a good home in a window display - LOL)

and so long to this lovely woods!

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Cleaning out the family home uncovers lots of old family pictures, so it is on with building a family tree . . . fun, intense and very time consuming -- a labour of love! At least it is indoors, away from the rotting fish smell.

Coffee at the ready and a beach view whilst working

This week (wc 1st October) still very hot with multiple day records of 97F/36+C degrees; the humidity has dropped today making it bearable. The red tide seems to have been pushed out to sea with the easterly winds. Sadly it is now floating round the tip of Florida on the Gulf Stream and hitting the East Coast beaches. Our county & city have been great at clean-up and are still intensely patrolling to watch for any return of red tide (let's hope not!).

Yippee for us - doors and windows open once again - and no this is not red tide, but a Florida sunset on the water :-) With a sea breeze, it is now back to quilting & basketry -- and maybe even a beach walk & sitting out on the balcony!! Whoop Whoop!

See no dead fish!

Seen on the Beach:  prone paddle boarder with a GoPro on the front of his board just floating by.

Red sun trying to peak around the dark clouds & rain

 









Black Clouds overhead - we've had a lot of dramatic thunder and lightning storms recently - it is still the rainy season here.