Sunday June 23rd 2024

I have come to the conclusion that the weather forecasters are incapable of predicting when rain will arrive during the central Florida summer. At the beginning of the day today rain was predicted with various levels of probability from 11AM until nightfall. As 11AM approached the forecast was moved out to 2PM and then 4PM until about 9PM. It actually rained in this area around 5PM for half an hour at most. This changing forecast has been the case every day for the last couple of weeks. There are just too many variables and the showers tend to be very scattered. When the sun was out the temperature climbed to the low nineties with high humidity making it feel like it was over 100 degrees, but mot of the day some clouds obscured the sun keeping the temperature in the mid to upper eighties with the same high humidity.

Why do people bring golf carts to the RV resort when they are only going to be here for a week or less? Since I prefer to walk a lot, I can’t see the value. It gets particularly bad when the golf cart doesn’t behave. In the last few days I’ve seen two different golf carts getting towed back to their sites. This morning the one next door only seemed to need charging.

This RV resort has a 10 MPH speed limit. Most golf carts don’t have a speed gauge and many are driven with the pedal to the metal. From past experience I think that is well above the posted speed limit. The quiet moving vehicles can be a real menace to walkers. It is interesting that many RV resorts I’ve been in have rules against electric bicycles for these very safety reasons. Probably because the resort staff uses golf carts for day to day operations they don’t have any rules against them other than the driver must be licensed. Some parks do require the golf cart be insured as well. As electric bicycles get more common, I suspect the parks with restrictions will relax a little. This park doesn’t have any issues with electric bicycles. One even broke down in the street across form my RV home a couple of weeks ago. You’d think they could pedal or walk it home, but the male member of the couple walked home for a truck while the female member of the couple guarded the bikes.

The bunnies were out again on my evening walk. The grass looked to be pretty tall again in the area they were nibbling.