It has been a very hot, humid, and rainy summer this year in Stuart, Florida, where my sister Susan and I own a condo we inherited from our mother Mary. After renting it out for almost 15 years, we have decided to take it back next August and finally get some use out of the place. Meanwhile, I have been watching the local 11:00 P.M. news on WPTV in West Palm Beach whenever I can, and see that this past week the rainy season has finally come to an end, and the temperatures are cooling off at last. Not surprisingly, the weather forecasters are all excited about this change, marveling about having to wear jackets on their way into work each morning. The only down side is that it will soon be too chilly to go in the water at Stuart Beach for everyone but the snowbirds, who will venture out in their swim trunks and bikinis, with temperatures in the low 60s and a strong wind blowing in off the ocean. That was definitely not the case when I took the photograph above of Susan and our mother Mary on the boardwalk at Stuart Beach back in August of 1995. Call me crazy, but I still like August in Stuart. This year it might have been much too hot and humid, and rained 24/7, but hopefully that was just an aberation, and next summer will back to normal - hot, but with a refreshing breeze off the ocean, and only a short afternoon storm before the sun once again returns. You've got to have a dream, right?
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