Am I in Chicago?

Live in Sarasota most of the time. Usually, sunny, beautiful, sometimes too hot, sometimes too muggy, but generally speaking great weather.

In summer we get heavy but short lasting afternoon storms and that's understandable. We do need the water.

This year has been exceptional. We are getting buckets full of rainfall daily, but it still has been pretty much an hour or 2 event in the afternoon. That's the good part, but today I felt I'm back in my favorite city in the world, Chicago - IN OCTOBER. No, it's not the temperature, that's still hot and muggy, but it has been and still is RAINING heavily all day, with heavy cloud cover and no sun in sight. Plus when the storms roll inland they come with short lived but extremely strong winds.

No sunset tonight.


It's time like this that I feel really bad for the families that come down to visit for a week and so far the week has been miserable. This is suppose to be their time to enjoy our beautiful beaches, the kids building sand castles, etc. NOT THIS WEEK.

To top it of, this is the July 4th/Boat Races week. Many activities going on already. Tomorrow a huge event, a boat parade down Main St, but if it's like anything like today, it will be a non-event. Kids love the parade. Saturday, the fireworks and again if it's anything like today, it will be a big flop.

So please Mother Nature, we beg you to give us a little break. Thank you for all the water. In fact, our county officials are celebrating as this is one of the very few years during the last decade that our water levels are full.

Let the sun break through and let the families and kids enjoy all the activities. PLEASE!!


and how is it in your part of the country?


btw, Happy Canada Day to our northern neighbors! Hope you're having better weather!