Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Random mutterings
From the 1730 Tropical Weather Outlook:
A WESTWARD-MOVING TROPICAL WAVE…ACCOMPANIED BY A SURFACE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM…IS LOCATED ABOUT 80 MILES NORTH OF BARBADOS AND ALSO ABOUT 110 MILES EAST OF MARTINIQUE IN THE CENTRAL LESSER ANTILLES. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE INCREASED AND BECOME A LITTLE MORE CONCENTRATED NEAR THE CENTER…AND UPPER-LEVEL WINDS ARE FORECAST TO BECOME SOMEWHAT MORE FAVORABLE FOR SOME ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT DURING THE NEXT DAY OR SO.
Might have to keep an eye on this one.
Don’t forget to turn the clocks back before you go to bed Saturday night. Next year DST starts and ends 3 weeks earlier. Can’t say as I really see the sense in that. Apparently someone convinced a bunch of politicians that it was a good idea though.
Energy Fiend is a website a friend of mine sent me. It’s a different kind of blog. First you can find out how much caffeine is in some of your favourite food and drink. Then you can find out how much of your favourite caffeinated drink it would take to kill you. If that’s not enough, you can also find out how much of your favourite caffeinated food would put you down.
Naturally you’d be feeling pretty ill way way before you get anywhere near that lethal dose. Kind of fun to see how much it would take though. 291 cans of Sunkist Orange Soda would put me down. Who knew!
A recent trip to Lowe’s and Wal(ly)mart revealed outdoor shops full of Christmas crapstuff already. Did I sleep through Halloween and Thanksgiving or something?
If radio stations start with the Christmas music any earlier this year I may have to blow up my radio.
It was almost cool enough today to make me think about switching from shorts to pants. I’m sure I got a few odd looks from all the sweater clad people walking around today.
Had a good day out with the pups today, starting with an hour or so out at the Hampton Park dog run. We were there by ourselves for the first half hour or so, before being joined by a pair of Weimeraners, Gus the Bouvier and a lab/rott mix. Stuck around, let the dogs run around and play some more while people chatted, then we decided to head off to the Farmer’s Market and let the dogs check out the sights.
Ran into Vera and hubby Patrick hanging out with the Palmetto Fiber Arts Guild doing the spinning and knitting thing. We didn’t have our camera with us, but Patrick did and got a good shot of the dogs and their Hallowe’en bandannas. Patrick gave the wife and I a spinning demonstration and there was a neat demonstration of loom weaving. Interesting looking craft.
The dogs loved the Farmer’s Market and got plenty of love and attention from people there (the matching bandannas helped a lot…”Awww, look at the doggies!”). We always get the occasional odd comment from a few people though
Anyway, after cruising through the Market, we headed down King St to window shop and expose Simba to more things. Quick stop in Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville to check out their collars and leashes and then a walk through Charleston Place where they got more love and attention. The dogs were starting to get pretty tired by now, so we trekked back up King St to the car and headed home.
It was a good day to hang out with the dogs.