August 17: Bet Your Bottom Dollar

Today's post is dedicated to tropical weather. It is both frightening and beautiful. I can see the appeal and I could live in a tropical place. The sky is beautiful - the sun and rain - the rainbows, the clouds all so gorgeous. Then there's the thunder and lightning. It comes on so suddenly. I can see why some people and places don't have time to prepare. I'm here at the Florida-Georgia line and we've been under a flash flood alert for two days. I'm not scared, but maybe I should be. Not too much scares me these days.

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing." - Sylvia Plath

"That's my problem: I think way too much, and I feel everything so deeply. This can be a dangerous combination if you're trying to have a healthy mind." - Laurie Dieppa

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher

"Such is grief." - Laurie Dieppa

Today looked a lot like yesterday. It rained and then it didn't all day. Finished my laundry- took the dogs around the lake- road the bike- swam. Then the sun came out at about 4:00 and there was hardly a cloud in the sky. It is very warm, but there is a nice breeze.

While it was raining I watched episodes of Doom Patrol and cut up apples to bake with cinnamon. Then I repeated my morning routine. I put the linens in the dryer to freshen them up, took the dogs for a walk, went for a swim and another bike ride. When I was riding the bike Bobby barked at one of the amigos and Jean-Luc took a sharp left turn into the front of the bike, I braked and fell into the curb. I gashed up my left knee, my right ankle has a big goose egg, and my left hip is bruised. I don't know why these dogs can't leave things alone when I'm in the absolute worst position to do something about it. My ankle is throbbing and my knee is still dripping blood. Stupid Dogs! Why do I love them? Because now they're all worried about me and want to lick my wounds. Dogs are perpetually two years old.

I'm making breakfast burritos for dinner. Need a good night sleep because I'm driving all the way to Mississippi tomorrow.