the season is upon us

. . . hurricane season, that is. As if on cue, we have a respectable thunder storm blowing up from the southeast and the weather radar for the Gulf shows storms blowing in all directions. My wife's trip home was blocked by Clearwater firefighters putting out a burning pine tree on the corner near our house - in the pouring rain. Lightning must have set it on fire just as the storm broke. It was blazing merrily from the ground up and they were using a fire hose on it. We had a record 96 degrees earlier this week. This is going to be a long, strange summer.