Ida....Not Sweet as Apple Cider!

AT THE SHORE:
Gale Warnings up
Surf is double overhead and waves are over 16 feet.
Wind gusts of over 60 mph are howling through the trees and whipping the ocean and bay into a frenzy that is eroding beaches and slamming waves onto roadways.

Ida! Sweet as apple cider are the words of a song made famous by Frank Sinatra. But so far Ida is anything but sweet.

Trees are bending way over to bow to Ida as she makes her appearance here on the coast. And in response she is really stirring things up in a royal way. Ida has been blowing around since yesterday afternoon but over night she has gotten particularly loud and pushy. This storm isn't shy about announcing her presence as new girl in town.

We will see after she passes by on Friday what problems she will have brought with her.

Somehow, the name Ida does not conjure up a whirlwind or a huge storm. In my mind Ida is a small Italian girl with cute perky ways and a sweet personality.

I suppose having had a friend w hose mother was like that helps in my assessment of the name. Still I wouldn't associate it with a big storm.

I just looked up the meaning of Ida.  "Hardworking". Okay so maybe it does fit. This storm is working hard at being tough.

Blogger has now incorporated much of their beta blogger into the regular blogger format. What a pain in the neck!

Putting photos onto the post is now a hassle for me as sometimes it closes down the program after freezing up for a considerably annoying period of time. I will run some goodies to see if the problem in on my end though. It very well might be.

My one pet peeve with all of the gadgets online from Yahoo to Google etc. ,  is that they keep upgrading without first getting the original programs right!

First improve the original, or rather, first get it right, then move on to upgrade with more bells and whistles.

Still Blogger is the best blogging format out there and it's free. Restrictions are few if any and you can tweak the CSS and Html to your heart's content. I do anyway.  And you can be as simple or as complicated with your site as you want. Now, that's nice!

Well, as Ida rages around me, I am going to go back to bed for another couple of hours sleep, hopefully.

It's dark and rainy outside and bed seems like a nice place to be.

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Memories.....

Brandy passed away one year ago today, aged 15 years.

Sandy passed away one month ago. He never recovered from Brandy's loss. They were best of friends for so many years.