--- A few miles down our road ---

Friday, 10:50 am: After delays and false starts, I am back. Those rusty hinges in my brain have been well-lubricated with liberal amounts of coffee – ah, caffeine, nature’s magic elixir.

My in-laws arrived safely on Wednesday night in the middle of a driving rain storm in Presque Isle. Their itinerary started in Berlin with stops in London and Boston. Now my wife and her family are safely, I hope, on their way to Florida in a rental car. I am the lucky one, I stayed home. My wife, Ruth, called, and they are in Rhode Island this morning. Ruth said her sister is car sick with her head stuck in a bag most of the time. Again, I am the lucky one. Boy, I dodged that bullet!

Now that my wife is gone for three weeks I’ll revert back to my genetically-linked sloppiness and hopelessly bad diet of cookies, ice-cream and hamburgers. Of course, that’s for breakfast. I am not predisposed to healthy eating when my wife isn’t looking. I should probably take life more serious, or is it seriously? I'll leave it to the English majors to decide. Since this is a weather blog, here’s some weather information: It’s nice outside. Here’s the other information.

Current values from our
Vantage-Pro weather station:

Temperature: 51° (F.)

Barometer: 30.38 & falling rapidly

Humidity: 58%

Wind: WSW at 2 mph – light & variable

Visibility: > 3 miles

Skies: Lightly scattered high clouds

Precipitation: None – ground frost

Since midnight:

Low temp: 27° (F.)

High wind: 8 mph at 10:40 am