Cooling Off

Our weather person has been reading the temperatures every night and there has hardly been a time when record has not been mentioned. For some reason our temperatures have been 5 to 8 degrees above normal. For we who are from up north it is uncomfortable as we are not used to 95 degree weather feeling like 100+. We never complain as we have seen full sun since we arrived and that's why we call this paradise. However our weather person predicts a cold front coming our way and that will mean temperatures in the mid eighties.

For growing the heat is wonderful and our garden had tripled in size in 8 days. Keeping up to the grass cutting and tree trimming is friendly work and a dream come true for those of us who love gardening. At the market today all the fruits and vegetables were prime and talking to the vendors they are very happy with the their gardens. It has been some time since our last hurricane but the frost last year whiped out the tomato and strawberry crop for some with great financial loss.

With all this heat coming our way we never needed to heat the pool but there was no financial gain as we have had our air conditioner on every day. Again no complaints as we swim every day. Locals close up their pool about now and think we are foolish to swim in the wintertime. All the stores a getting ready for Xmas but Halloween comes first and it is a big deal here. Stores devote large sections of their retail space for this day. The economic impact is quite large and the amount of candy sold staggers our imagination. The dentists association are buying candy from the kids and donating it to the armed forces and food banks.

Finally we see the winter clothes filling up the racks in stores and extra warm clothes are sold. We from the north think it strange that you could be cold in this climate. The outside workers pile on the clothes when the temperature goes below 70 degrees and the weather people warn people to bundle up because a cold front is coming and it is cooling off.