Thursday September 5th 2024

It is hard to believe that September is already five days old. Even the weather seems to be more aware of the season than I am. According to the TV weather talkers we are in a fall or winter weather pattern. A low pressure front has been stationary over Central Florida since the weekend. Rain both of the thunderstorm variety and simple rain storms have been more prevalent than usual storms resulting from the summer heating of the day.

Last night it rain lightly most of the night. At least the couple of times I woke up there was the sound of rain on the roof. This morning it was cloudy and gloomy. The forecast called for storms starting before the noon hour followed by another round toward evening. The second set was forecast to be heavy flood inducing rain. The first batch of storms held to plan. I was out running errands when they arrived. I took refuge wandering up and down the aisles of a Home Depot store until the rain let up. The flower blossoms in this blog entry are courtesy of Home Depot’s garden shop. The second set of storms weren’t as prompt nor were they as bad in this area. We have been getting light rain at my RV site, but to the north of here there are flash floods associated with several inches of rain.

I attempted to take advantage of the lull in the rain to visit the International Food and Wine Festival at Disney’s EPCOT, but mother nature had other ideas. The sun was trying to come out overhead and the horizon toward Disney only looked cloudy when I set out. Before I got two miles down the street it was starting to rain and there was a massive black cloud in the area of my destination. I returned to my RV home. The festival runs until November. I have plenty of time.

Over the last few weeks I watched the gradual increase in the amount of Halloween merchandise in the stores. Walmart has had an ever increasing supply since the beginning of August. Now that the back to school push is over, Halloween decorations have taken over the space. In Home Depot today there were all kinds of spooky lawn and porch decorations. The haunting music and creepy pronouncements were very distracting. Probably the most surprising Halloween thing I encountered today was Halloween greeting cards at Target. I guess they expect people to give Halloween cards similar to Christmas cards. The inscriptions didn’t seem to have any focus. Some were threatening Halloween evil and others seemed to be advising the reader to be careful and avoid haunting elements. What’s next?