Tease

That's what Ernesto turned out to be... a total tease. Last week, he looked like a big bunch of nothingtoworryabout... then all of a sudden on Monday he was headed for us and expected to strengthen into a Cat 1. We all brought our patio furniture inside and made sure we had tanks full of gas and freezers full of ice and lots of bottled water and batteries... and then? Nothin.

Admittedly, that image does not show the storm over Florida ... looks more like somehwere around Hispaniola. But it does look pretty scary, doesn't it? When he finally made landfall in Florida, he looked a bit more like this:

And then he just proceeded to get weaker and weaker. There was wind, there was rain, and there's still quite a bit of cloud cover ...but all in all, Ernesto was a big old tease.

Several good things have come of this:

• I get to stay home and work in my pajamas
• I get to blog under the guise of staying home and working in my pajamas
• I don't have to eat Chulo's SPAM

Now, let's hope that's the last of the tropical storms/hurricanes for this season. I know that's unreasonable... but let's face it: if a man can be a tease, then a woman can suspend reality and be unreasonable. If only just this once.