Afternoon, everyone.
Steve, I wish the whole English speaking world could agree on one thing. The US still won't go metric, which causes us nothing but grief for both imports and exports. It seems like ONE phonetic alphabet should do for all of us but we keep inventing different ones for different services. We had the ITU code for hams, another code for the military, and yet another code for most of the western US. The rest of the country uses a hodge-podge of different codes...and this is just for the alphabet. In theory, all the emergency services are supposed to use plain English and drop all the 10 codes, 11 codes, signal codes...it goes on and on. We even have different 10 codes from county to county, which makes it really interesting if you're called in for mutual aid. It hasn't changed for the better in most places yet and I don't expect it change in my lifetime. No wonder we can't get to things like world peace.
Maybe life is just like your chicken.
Bob, did you get any pictures of the dogs? They sound hilarious.
I kind of think a 5k walk with your stenosis probably wasn't the best idea, but at least you toughed it out and showed you could still do it, even if you're paying for it now. Sounds like you'll have a fun time on the water. Restricting the boys to a no wake area sounds like a good idea. Did you see the storms they had in northwest Ohio last night? Being out in the open lake waters can be a fatal mistake this time of year. BTW, our sheriff is still after me to sign up to be a reserve deputy. I told him to look up the word "retired" in the dictionary and get back to me.
Chris, Florida really has water problems. In addition to the continuing drought, the drawing down of the water table is allowing the intrusion of seawater up to 50 miles inland. California was able to steal water from all over and bring it to LA and SF, but we had lots of mountains and wet states to out north and east. Florida doesn't even have a real river. I suspect that desalinization is the only long term answer if the population keeps growing, and that's going to cost lots of money. Of course, Steve's suggestion about the really mean crocs might drive a few people out too.
Jeffrey, it's 92 here with a dewpoint of 72. No need to pay for a sauna bath, just step outside.
Looks like all the stroms are staying along the coast, so it will just be more heat for us until a not so hot front passes through later today. We may actually have highs only in the mid-80's tomorrow. After four years, I guess I should be used to this.
So far, so good, for our trip to Cancun. We fly out Wednesday and no swine flu, no tropical storms, and the ash from the volcano in Guatemala is blowing west. If everything stay this way, we should be OK. We'll be there for 12 days. Anyone want to take any bets that a tropical storm develops the day after we arrive?
Another thing ground water levels are tidal too! during a high tide cycle the well will show more water than there is too!
