Sunday May 5th 2024

Last night and this morning the weather forecast called for the day to follow the summer pattern. A line of thunderstorms would pass through the area some time from the afternoon to early evening. I tried to plan my day around it except Mother Nature had other ideas. The revised forecast around the noon hour didn’t call for any rain in this area. The rain was going to stay north and east of Orlando today. For the most part that is what happened. The only sign of rain in this area was a big black cloud that passed by to the north with a few dribbles of rain about 6PM. The drought continues.

My original plan was to use the rainy period for grocery shopping and push my outdoor activities into the other parts of the day. Despite the improving forecast, I still shortened my outdoor activities and went grocery shopping in the late afternoon. Walmart was busy. There were plenty of people that checked their patience at the door and forgot to use common sense while going up and down aisles looking for food. It is a common problem that I’m not immune to either. Today evidence of the behavior was in full force. Congested aisles only get more congested when people tried to enter when others are trying to exit in parallel. One of these days I’ll remember not to go grocery shopping at Walmart on Sunday afternoon. Still I managed to get everything I needed.

Once I got back to my RV home and put the groceries away, I attempted to take my long walk of the day. As I got further and further from my RV home the big black cloud to the north got more and more ominous. I had to make a decision to believe in the weather forecast and continue my walk or cut it short and return home and close the windows. I decided to honor the threat and returned home. The dribble of rain was over by the time I closed the windows.