Bzzzzy as a bee....

Years ago I had a little Geo Metro convertible...yellow with a black top...came up to my ribcage...but at 54 mpg, who cared? Tremendous room in that buggy for me, being the large fellow I am...and I got a personalized plate that read "1BZZYB". If that's not the weather department's motto this fall, I don't know what is!!! Maybe too busy for our own good, but luckily the amount of severe weather has been limited, and we News 14 meteorologists will take all of that we can get. These bee pictures I took last year reminded me that, like our's, a bee's work is never done! There I go droning again...

You are welcome to your own thoughts. I know without a doubt that the major U.S. auto makers could easily be producing cars with much higher mileage, efficiency, and cleanliness...but there is such a strange bedfellows organization of entitites to prevent that...and I also know it all boils down to the financial bottom line, which smacks of corporate greed. That Geo, while not the safest road rat, was incredible with gas...got 57 mpg once going on a 10-hour road trip, cruising the speed limit. My current car is a 225,000 mile Ford Escort wagon straight drive that pulls 36-38 mpg regularly...of course, both of those cars have been discontinued and replaced with models which are less fuel-efficient. You make your own call. I think it's an ugly case of selfishness on the part of the U.S. automakers, myself, and I think they are doing a poor job advancing alternative fuel vehicles, as well.

Okay, 'nuff said on that soap box. There will be plenty more to come. We have another wardrobe change ahead by Friday, which should be around 20 degrees cooler than Tuesday's highs. Anytime you switch out significantly colder air masses, you have to have winds working to bring that effect to fruition, which is what I expect on Thursday, especially. Thursday night should be the windiest with gusts close to 30mph through the first part of the night. Keep an umbrella handy (so you can be like Mary Poppins!) and throw in a rain jacket for safe measure the next couple of days...we have ourselves a real barn-burner of a cold front about to plow through! So get bzzzzzy pulling out those warmer clothes again!