Thursday October 2nd 2025

October has arrived and maybe fall weather will arrive soon. It is getting dark noticeably earlier. The weather is getting a little more fall like. The high temperature most days is in the mid eighties, but ninety plus days are still mixed in for good measure. Most overnight temperatures are still in the seventies. Once they start dropping, fall will be here to stay. The hurricane season continues as well. The passage of tropical system Imelda this week a few hundred miles off Florida’s east coast brought a lot of clouds and some rain.

All that said, we still get late in the day thunderstorms. I arrived at Disney’s EPCOT on Monday shortly after 5PM in a downpour. I parked my car and waited for nearly half an hour before the rain started to let up and I could leave my car without getting soaked. By the time I reached the entrance, blue sky was returning overhead. I wasn’t wet from the rain, but I was wet from the tram. The seats on the parking lot shuttle tram were far from dry. Even though I didn’t sit in a puddle of water, as the tram moved the water from elsewhere on the seat seemed to make a beeline for my butt. It is not fun walking around with a wet rear end.

I made a full loop of the World Showcase with a break for a dinner of Fish and Chips in the UK Pavilion. The park got progressively more crowded as I proceeded through the various countries. Toward the end of the loop rain was threatening again. I choose to take my wet rear end home before the rest of me got into a similar state.

Today I finally got around to trimming my bougainvillea. The last two pictures represent the before and after. It still may get a little more trimming tomorrow.