Do you miss the change of seasons in the North East?

I certainly do not miss the change in seasons. Fall is in the air in Miami as well. You can't smell it and feel it in the breeze yet, like in Philadelphia, but the boys in the field here with football pads on can. Also, the radio TV and newspapers with football hype building remind us of the eminent arrival of “snow birds” and the anticipation of a season’s change of cooler nights and hearing “it’s forth and one”.

During our mid-August visit to the New Jersey shore the weather was remarkable, similar to our summer South Florida weather. Highs near 90 and lows a bit milder but still the AC was running for sleeping comfort.

What we try to forget is that the biggest downside of living in tropical paradise is our haunting watch of the tropics for hurricane development. Especially in these six weeks around the month of September, the busiest month of Hurricane season. As our friends, family and customers get the kids off to school, pull out the sweaters and get excited for football, we do the same here, with our eyes on the tropics and hopes to get these six weeks behind us.

Wish us luck in these weeks and we will see you when the threat of ice and snow chase you away to our tropical paradise. We will have the pool and landscape ready, even if Mother Nature decides to remind us of the price of paradise.