Fun Monday - Staying Dry

Gattina is our host for this week and wants to know:

Do you use an umbrella against the rain or too much sunshine ? Even if you don't you certainly have at least one in your house I suppose. Take a picture and show us the one or once you use (or not)

Living in Florida, we have lots of sunshine. What you don't know is that usually, we also have lots of rain. When I was growing up, you could count on a half-hour rainshower between 2 and 5 every afternoon. It is not like that now. These days the climate is different. We had nearly 20 years of drought, where most of our rains seemed to come in the form of hurricanes. The rest of the time, there wasn't much. Things seem to be settling down again. We still don't see the daily shower, but at least once a week, we seem to get a pretty good rainstorm...

These are our umbrellas. For a while there, we were buying one-use umbrellas (cheap), and once I bought a fancy, enormous golf umbrella - but they broke or disappeared. For some reason, these two have stuck around for several years.



I rather like them. They have a little personality; they are sturdy; and they fit into my very large purse! There used to be a yellow one too, but that one disappeared shortly after we got it.

FUN MONDAY UPDATE
Last week, we were wondering if Fun Monday was going to fade away to nothing. After asking participants, the consensus was to continue, but to go back to its roots - making FM a mostly photo post and... FUN! So for now, we shall continue - but we need volunteers to host! Please, if you play, host from time to time... otherwise, Fun Monday will become just like every other Monday.

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