1) Bette Davis, our weather forecaster, told us we would have a beautiful evening with low humidity but the King tides would be in the next day
2) and she was right. When I woke up in the morning the water from the canal was high enough to start flooding our backyard.

3 & 4) By the weekend the cooler weather started to come in with evening temps going down to the 70s, dark clouds on Saturday and the rain all day Sunday and to continue.

5) About 6 years ago I grew an avocado plant in my apartment and then when it was about a foot tall I planted it outside only to have the new owners cut it down. Last week I bought some avocados on sale 6 for $5 and after eating them I decided to grow a couple to keep indoors and got them started.

6 & 7) My pepper plants are producing peppers like crazy--red and green peppers with no reasoning which would grow in which pot though they all come from the same pepper!

8) The Cuban plant bloomed though I have never been able to figure out its schedule!

9) In the back of my apartment is a tree that was almost destroyed by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 and came back greater than ever and at the first sign of Autumn (yes, we have Autumn here--humidity and temperatures go low and the rains come!) the seed pods start showing themselves (that white/gray ball in the middle of the tree). By the way, I call the tree Wilma! (Who said I wasn't clever?)

10) What can I say? It's not a new month if I don't bump into something that cuts my skin and I start a never-ending bleeding and changing bandages episode--this month my left arm!

11) What's a better way to heal a wound than to have a carrot cake---that's on sale! (The cake was delicious but had too much icing and the icing wasn't cream cheese so I had to 'force' myself to eat it!)

12) I'm in heaven!! I am back to reading books! After reading the books that were sent to me last year I stopped and I don't know why! I love to read but I have been letting newspapers, magazines and, yes, the #%^&^*()_(&^%$# Internet divert me. I decided to buy myself a gift and ordered Michael Fierstein's "I was Better Last Night", Viola Davis's "Finding Me", Mary Rodger's "Shy", "Lord Knows, At Least I Was There: Working with Stephen Sondheim" by Paul Ford and then I was surprised by David who I met on the Internet recently with "Later My Life At The Edge of The World" by Paul Lisicky, "Seth's Broadway Diary" by Seth Rudetsky and "Broadway Musicals: The 101 Greatest Shows of All Time" by Ken Bloom & Frank Vlastnik (keep them coming David!) and I wanted to read them ALL at the same time BUT I am reading them one at a time, slowly and thoroughly enjoying a habit I had for many years. I do cheat a little--I read about 1 of the 101 musicals every morning with my coffee BUT I DIDN'T skip ahead to "A Chorus Line"!!!