The Gnats

Lets see here.....what is going on?

Nothing. Welcome to the summer doldrums. You wake up, it is hot outside, then it rains, then the gnats come out, and every time you breathe you inhale gnats.

Where the hell are a swarm of dragonflies when you want them? NOWHERE! In fact, I can not remember the last time I saw a dragonfly. This may explain the gnats.

Of course this is probably my fault. I have been dumping over any container of standing water I can find. Standing water breeds mosquitoes. These are BAD! HORRIBLE! But dragonfly larva also need standing water.

So what the hell can I do? Apparently nothing.

I hate it when gnats get up your nose. Once I was riding a bike and that happened and I started to sneeze and then swat at the air in a feeble attempt to clear a path - and then I crashed into a line pole.

So there I was, probably letting loose with a string of no-no words, bleeding, and furiously picking at my nose. With my pinkie finger so I could REALLY REALLY reach up there deep. Digging for gold. The idea was that I could SQUASH the gnats so they would stop wiggling.

It must have been quite a sight to see. There is that crazy guy again! Cursing and bleeding an nose picking. And it looks like the front wheel on that bicycle is....bent or something???

Good thing Homeland Security was not around back then. I would have probably been added to several watch lists. And for good reason. YOU do not want to have to sit next to the bleeding nose picking cursing guy during a trans-Atlantic flight now do you? Of course not. This is why people who frequently do this need to be on the famous "do not fly" list. Everyone can agree on this much.

But it was all the fault of the gnats. I hate those things. Did I mention that?

So anyway, that is a good summary of how things are going. Wake up, it is hot, then it rains, the gnats come out and the humidity is about as high as it can get so everything is steamy and you sweat like you are melting, then it rains some more, then the day is over.

Except for today. It only rained a little where I was at. See in Florida "rain" does not mean you will get wet. It can be raining in your front yard, but not your back yard. Really. I have seen that happen before.

You may be driving home in a terrible thunder storm, through standing water caused by an urban flash flood (some genius decided that everything in Miami must be paved, so that water can no longer soak into the ground - it just runs to the lowest point in the area). But when you get home - everything is bone dry. Never rained there.

But the gnats will be out anyway. They do not seem to care. I have no idea where they come from. I suspect they live in hedges and/or the lawn. Maybe just underground? Who knows.

Now what does this have to do with anything? I forgot. I think I was getting at a point. But whatever that point was is lost to time.

OH YEA! Thats right. It all boils down to Friday the 4th of July. So far the weather reports are promising. They are calling for a "slight chance" of showers and thunderstorms. Pretty standard report really.

The water mission is still on.