You put what in the dryer?

A few years ago, as a tenant in San Francisco, CA, a notice posted in a nearby laundromat warned against drying rubberized articles in the tumble-drum machines. Not as defiance, but rather to tumble out most of the moisture from a skid-proofed bathroom rug, such items would be briefly tumbled anyway under close watch.

However, warnings came in the form of brandished disposable lighters and such lighters abandoned on sidewalks and in the roadway. While staying here with family the same pattern of plastic-lighter discards yet partially filled with fluid has become evident, with one change: a broken, empty plastic lighter case abandoned in the new bike lane a short distance away from Kingswood condos, beside the Vista Pines condo complex.

A tiny receptacle made available, its ignition parts removed? but where is the lighter fluid?

Seering

This past afternoon was very hot, and the cement sidewalk was almost as painful under bare feet as hot asphalt can be.

"Imagine my surprise", after reading and note-taking from the Stuart News as representative of such reporting about incidents involving burning cars with dead bodies found within, to see an elderly neighbor's automobile with a broken front bumper trussed together with a length of brown rope near the engine. Although the vehicle in no way resembles a candle, the possibility of a wick set-up does come to mind after reading such stories.

Suddenly, in the not-much-cooler evening, there was a power outage -- causing some gladness since the oft-pointed TV remote-control device was thereso become useless and the air conditioner no longer cooled the various emotional reactions to program content, loud in volume as if sharing. The power suddenly switched on again about two hours ago.

Now, the rumbling of a thunderstorm and flashes of lightning cause some suspicion that an irate population is striving to perfect lightning strikes, since the baton-like impression made by such a strike upon a condominium roof elsewhere in this southern FL region. Rainfall has recommenced after the deluge that was Tropical Storm Fay.

Reality check

With regard to the oracle-bead archaeological site I am researching:

o 'Clinton' -- a word-form of the name 'Cline', a sometimes noisy oil-business family property located near the PA site

o 'Barak Obama' -- a name containing both forward and reverse 'bo/ob' abbreviations of the artifact term 'oracle bead'

o 'Crist' -- a short form of the word 'Cristobal' which approximates the term "crystal ball" descriptive of the oracle-bead artifact

Check check and check. The investigation is proceeding as a diversion rather than an academic action.

While FL was electing Crist...

Months ago, a TV show titled 'Snapped' described the discovery of a woman named Christine who had been placed in a recycling bin and put into a (cold) storage unit in California. Whereas the activities of those who sent the body into storage were traceable within the native/indigenous CA population, the logical expectations that she would be henceforth routed from the storage facility location into a local morgue were apparently pre-empted with intent to hunt down and capture the relay team.

Enter a live Republican in FL -- a native from St. Petersburg, where information about a tiny artifact located in the mountains of Pennsylvania had been e-mailed from CA to the Florida Wildlife Commission, because the artifact has a traceable effect upon small wildlife as placed beneath a streamside limestone roadside-rest in Degolia, PA.

As national attention focused on Crist, the deceased Christine slowly deteriorated within a PVC recycling bin behind the locked door of a garage converted to storage facility. Whereas speedy apprehension and questioning of the relay team and a dignified funeral for the woman should have been easily accomplished with a minimum of scandal, the Crist campaign instead dominated national consciousness as actions of the mass media and national political party.

mo(o)re marcias bite the dust

...and their friends/family aren't happy about it. With The Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) such a visible presence in Martin County, FL, the possibility of law-court overthrow of an entire needle-wielding regime becomes overwhelming for those who may have been named by an RN plucking a seafood-related (albeit foreign) name from the minds of women taken into a hospital for pre-natal observation -- then released only after birth in a sickroom (and the surveillance continues into tenure-track professorships).

o More about the beaked whales: these appear to be giant-sized versions of those marine mammals confined in aquatic tanks within oceanside parks. Awaiting tasty discards or stray fruit from waterside tropical trees, these zoom into river-stream waterpockets quite suddenly, so close that they might 'bus' a nearby human (see dictionary definition, word analogous to kiss). The oceangoing visitor necessitates a quick grip in the earth with toes, a flinging back of the head and hair plus a quick closing of the ear openings when heckling by a giant Flipper seems eminent.

o Why have financial institution fees for basic bank accounts become so high? because the U. S.-born relatives of Nazi-names have no other way to earn an income than embeddment within the accounting profession to fulfill their employers' dreams.

Water-sogged

The adjoining property between Kingswood Condo complex and Ocean Palms retirement home is a sort of small preserve and possibly a former a "lovers' lane" before the AARP set took control of Kingswood. Located only a city block from the St. Lucie River and a few miles away from Indian River Lagoon and Atlantic Ocean, it is land-ho from a distance and hope of salvation when absolutely necessary. A variety of wildlife passes through the area, as do the interests of a crumbling city roadway as mapped. The property holds a considerable amount of litter sometimes that is purposefully discarded as if such activity is a way to initiate new jobs (such as 'chief litter-picker-upper' or some other such role).

Tropical Storm Fay dumped a considerable amount of water on Stuart, and the wooded lot shows standing water all alongside the sidewalk, which protects pedestrians with a heavy-metal rail. Of course, the water has thereby freed up some embedded litter not easily removed by hand. The owner has apparently been taking some flack about the litter, which also serves as reflectors (aluminum cans, plastic bottles) that apparently are some reassurance near retaining pond and river-stream water-pocket. Water is pooled around two marker-type utility posts near a yellow-clad utility pole line.

The days-long drenching added to a late summertime atmosphere "as thick as hasty pudding" and the local journalism tells us that a tornado struck a Shell station. Last month, an ATM was ripped from a Stuart Shell station as well as from a few other places; and ATMs were then found lying in a canal.

In past years, tornados have caused damage in Florida environs without the Tropical Storm designation in effect, freeing up board-mounted fish trophies and other such errata from shattered homes.

From beaked to busheled

Another small whale stranded, during Tropical Storm Fay -- a pygmy sperm whale, so the journalism tells us, with a mouth the size of a bushel basket.

The whale was promptly euthanized -- no weeks-long drawn-out Navy hearing tests for the pygmy sperm variety.