Friday July 26th 2024

Today’s weather pattern had the daily thunderstorms forming on the western side of the Florida peninsular. The last few days the storms have formed more in the center of the peninsular. It all depends on the strength of the wind from the east or west. Where they meet you get storms forming. So far today they have formed but haven’t moved back to the west but haven’t moved back to the east in this part pf the state. Clouds have blocked the sun during the last few hours of daylight so the mid nineties temperature has dropped to high eighties. The feels like temperature was around 105.

I thought the resort wasn’t going to get the lawns mowed this week, but shortly after eight this morning I heard the sound of a lawn mower gradually getting closer to my RV home. They were a day or two late this week. The lawns need mowing. All the rain with the heat really gets the grass to grow. I need to do some trimming of my own. The landscape people don’t seem to want to get close to my steps. The grass is now above the height of my first step. I’ll have to find a knife or some old scissors to cut the grass assuming I can’t just pull it out or break it off.

My main task for the day was getting some groceries. The nearby Walmart is always busy and congested, but that was my choice for the day. I really think the management philosophy that keeps pallets of goods in the aisles of the grocery section waiting to be stocked on the shelves is questionable. The pallets make great obstacles. The good thing about this particular Walmart is they open most of the “Assisted” checkouts at busy times. Today I only had to wait for one customer before I was able to be “Assisted” with my checkout. The wait for the self service checkouts was longer.

Today’s walk around the RV resort was a short one. I walked down to the still wet retention ponds and watched the birds for a few minutes. From there I looped back to the air conditioned comfort of my RV home.