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| Winter in Port Charlotte, Florida |
Rainy Day had a treat the other night – we had a thunder and
lightning show like she hasn't seen since leaving Florida. There were few
things Rainy Day did not care for in Florida, the biggest and worst being the
humidity. In the summer, it was so humid that Rainy Day's few functioning brain
cells could barely tread water in a tepid bath of brain fluid. She had to
escape and come back to Washington and the desert.
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| Winter at Rainy Day's House |
Alas, when she escaped, she left a lot of really good
friends, and some fascinating wild life (especially alligators), and thunder
and or tropical storms. Oh, Rainy Day loved those storms. She loves the noise,
the light – but not the damage when damage happens.
Rainy Day would like hurricanes, too, if they didn't cause
so much damage. Of course, if we didn't have air conditioning, the hurricanes
wouldn't cause near the damage they cause. And, Rainy Day thinks, if we didn't
have air conditioning, Tropical Storms wouldn't cause the damage they cause,
and for the same reasons. Without air conditioning, people wouldn't choose to flock
to the Gulf Coast by the millions.
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| Wildlife in Florida |
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| Wildlife by Rainy Day's House |
So, the other night, her friends in Florida must have all
gotten together and somehow convinced the gods that be to send a real
thunderstorm to Rainy Day. Believe me, after going six years without a really
good one it was more than a little appreciated. Rainy Day just hopes she
doesn't have to wait another six years for the next one;-) Rainy Day heard the
Elves of Heaven roll their bowling balls and see the lightning of their strikes
for close to an hour.
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| Wide Open Spaces by Rainy Day's House |
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| Thunder Storm in Florida |
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| Wildlife in Florida |
Of course, Rainy Day knows there are no Elves in Heaven bowling
and that thunderstorms are caused by the physics of warm and cold air coming
together in just the right amounts at the right times, but she rather likes the
image of bowling elves.
Sometimes, Rainy Day wonders why she moved, and then she
realizes she's written several novels and made several quilts since moving –
things her few functioning brain cells couldn't handle in the high humidity of
Florida, but once they dried out a bit....
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