Hello from Key West!

Well, it's raining here today.  This is OUR cold front. Overcast, rainy and dreary.  The cold front brought temps to 75 degrees today. Brrrr.  The humidity is 80%. Well, I guess we have to have dreary weather from time to time.  My friends in the Northern states are fighting with the snow and ice. They are about ready to snuff out the groundhog.

When the weather turns better, everyone will be complaining about how hot it is.  No one is ever happy with the weather.  Down here, the weather gets the hottest during the summer months, July, August and September.  No breeze to speak of, and when it does rain, it either rains just enough to  mess up your car or it floods. Some days it is so hot that you walk out your door and get hit in the face with high humidity.  That's the cost of living in paradise, you take the good with the bad.

Living on an island is, for the most part, a good thing.  The locals here are as laid back as anyone can be and if something needs to be done, it will get done...in time.  The road work on the Boulevard is slowly but surely getting done.  On rainy days, work stops, and the vehicles get a wash, settles the dust.

I wish everyone I know in the Northern states could come down here for at least a week to get warm.  I traveled to Kentucky back in December.  When I left Key West the temp was between 60-70 degrees.  By the time I got to Tampa, I was digging out my jeans and sweatshirt, It was 50 degrees there, bone chilling for the state of Florida.  I woke up in Kentucky with a frost on my windshield and a temp of 35.  By the end of my week there, the temp was 60 and people were walking around in shorts and t-shirts. 

The weather has been acting strange the last few years. Snow in places that normally don't see it and warm weather where it is usually cold. The Winter Olympics are in what is supposed to be the coldest area of Russia.  They are having problems with Spring-like weather, melting snow on the ski slopes making it dangerous for the athletes.  Mother Nature is definitely going through the change of life, menopause, if you will.  She must be pretty ticked off.

Oh well, I guess we HAVE to take the good with the bad.  I am anxious to see what the weather has in store for all of us during this next year...Cuba may get snow in July.