Mini Me has just learnt of a new season - we knew we had hurricane/rainy season over the summer months, but that apparently is then followed by 'Windy Season!' Windy season is from November to May - go figure and they do not rent umbrellas on our local sands as they may be a hazard being blown down the beach.
One recent evening, the local deputy sheriff was at my door. Turns out he was doing a wellness check on a neighbour and was looking for a key - I didn't have one and next I knew a battering ram was being used - very loud! Fortunately neighbour is OK, however their door isn't.
Week ending 18 December, 2021:
Omicron Cases Explode In Florida but as of Nov 29th Florida Tourism Tops Pre-Pandemic Levels
and they just keep on coming; so once again we have decided to curtail our activities with others.
So what's a girl to do? Well I have taken to having a giggle about British weather terms, for instance, we have recently heard, mainly on the BBC descriptions of conditions such as:
- nuisance cooling wind
- high kinda in wrong place for good weather
- anticyclonic gloom
- murky
- crisp
- summer a muddle
- sun developing
- dry with clear spells
- sharp showers - as noted by my friend HW who asks are soft ones an option?
- The cool won’t last but the crisp will
- settled weather already a bit frayed around the edges
- ‘You get a lot of weather.’
- Jet stream on full gas
In Florida we are having an 'unwinter' with record challenging heat and apparently an 'excess of savings' whatever that might be! Not to mention, 'mostly clear with some fog around!'
We did have a lovely Christmas with my sister who finally got her combo birthday/Christmas present quilt! Also got together with some cousins before the COVID really hit - yippee!
Here's some Christmas lights at the Florida Botanical Gardens. There was even a tree rigged with lights to react to our singing. Very well done - takes 4 guys a month to put up.
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| Displayed on larger bed than the 3/4 quilt was made for complete with matching pillow cases |
Now back to the beach ...
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US Coast Guard watching our waters
but it is usually a helicopter patrolling |
Another baby relative on the way ... so a ducky and some teething biscuits seem in order.
Today was another foggy day - weird in that the fog came, went, came, went, came and then went ...
and wait for it: Photographer Damon Powers: “Underneath the Pinellas Bayway Cathedral Bridge. Probably one of the coolest bridges I’ve shot in Florida. The lighting and reflections was just spectacular!”
as posted by an admirer on NextDoor
