Saturday, November 12, 2022

Good morning. I hope it’s a bright beautiful sunshiny day in your area, because it sure isn’t here. I woke up to an overnight rain and everything wet and foggy with a cold front. It is 64°F this morning. Mark, Wayne and Bob are all off in the Ocalla forest for the first day of gun season. They are going to be very very wet. 🥶 I can hear Rick M laughing. Yes, when you live in Florida and it’s in the 60s and damp it feels cold. Never mind, by noon it’ll be 84° and partly sunny. 😂

The sunshine state took a heavy blow from hurricane Nicole. It was only a category one when it landed in Vero Beach on Thursday morning. However, as the winds at 70 miles an hour pummeled the coast all the way up to Saint Augustine, into Georgia and the Carolinas, it created huge beach erosion.  things have been weakened by hurricane Ian which had hit the west coast of Florida five weeks previously. Nicole was 700 miles wide, and the Florida peninsula at 120 miles wide was no match. several condos on Daytona Shores are untenable at this time and likely to be condemned. 

At our home, 60 miles inland, we had enough wind to make a mess of the yard with leaves and Spanish moss. Mark took the trailer to Nancy’s yesterday and helped her clean up her lakefront yard. She had quite a few branches down from these cypress trees and a trailer load of Spanish moss. It was nice to get it cleaned up as her next-door neighbors got married yesterday and had a backyard wedding. 

Sue is having a garage sale today, along with a dozen of her neighbors. I am picking up Kim and we are going to poke around and see what’s for sale. No, we don’t need anything, but you know how that works. 😂