Salty Limes and Spring Weather

Greetings and salutations. I am enjoying a second day of dark, tornadic, ultra hot weather that is the spring vortex of the upper part of FL. Lucky to have such beautiful woods, hills spring lakes, rivers and beaches, not so lucky to capture bits of crazy Texas, AL and MS weather. It flies our way full of gloomy doomy weather which flings patio furniture around like toothpicks and send shivers down the spines of the old Milton moonshiners (I hear). They say things like "You 'member that old twister that came through Hwy 90 and like'd to tore off that roof of the onion ring stand back in '77?" or something like that.

Sometimes this weather takes one back to the old days...the old days of 1996 when one would come home from college, all excited about it being "spring break", ready to get a tan and mingle with the ghostly pallor of the Michigan kids to the sound of Hootie and the Blowfish under tiki lights, spinning in joy under the sexy panhandle sun.

But no, mostly one would be greeted with the Spring vortex of doom, dark rainy nights, slashing winds and even some last blasts of winter temps. One would drive back to college with photos of big smiles, wet heads and black clouds in the distance, satisfied but cursing the cruel teasing Earth served up.

This is spring - days of light sun and hope, and then bam! Mother Nature brings the Thorhammer down and rains on our Corona and Lime parade. Weather channels scramble to bring us the most accurate weather available from Super Whopper Doppler but sometimes, the wet blanket still arrives. So, we wait like cats in a cabin, ready to pounce at the next ray of sun.

Life's a Beach- until it rains.