DO I REALLY MISS WHAT I THINK I DO?

The Fall season here in Florida get us closer to my very favorite time of year when we can throw open the windows, turn the a/c off and finally “air” out the house. The good news is that it can last up to five months if the prevailing wind currents that bring us that cooler weather from the north remain in a certain pattern. Last year was a perfect example of that happening.

Coming from New England the one thing that I do miss living in Florida, (I should be used to it because I’ve been here almost 18 years,) is the changing of seasons. Here we effectively have what I call two seasons, the muggy season and the dry season or Summer and Winter. Now I’m sure that there will be people who will argue that as we transition into the Winter and Summer, there are two other periods of season. Maybe it would be somewhat different if the palm trees changed colors or when attending the high school football games, the air was a bit crisper.

Yet maybe sometimes I tend to forget the very reason I left New England for the warmer climate…those dreadfully cold Winters, the Summers that never were. I forget the Spring seasons that were nothing but mud everywhere from the melting snows or the Fall seasons when the colors of the leaves changed so quickly you totally missed it.

Maybe it’s not so bad down here after all!