The latest happenings

Well nothing much is happening around here. We are battling a severe drought and we have water restrictions on us as to how many times a week and what hours we can water our grass or wash our cars. In Martin county we are aloud 3 days a week. But they are suppose to be going back to the drawing board and possibly cutting us back another day. I saw in the news that Palm Beach county schools use water to run their A/C units and they use something like 1.6 million gallons of water a day in that school district . So they are raising the temperatures up to 78* in the classrooms to conserve water. They say this will only save about 55,000 gals. per day or about 1%. But I guess every little bit helps. Just hope the kids aren't too uncomfortable.
With the severe drought we are experiencing wildfires. We have them in Georgia which is shifting the smoke into Florida and we have had one to the south of us in the Everglades and yesterday a fire just North of us at Pt. St. Lucie FAU campus. It was quite smokey here yesterday. Made it very hard to stay outside and smell it. It's cleared up a little today but theirs still a hint of smoke. They say more than 200 fires are burning in 55 counties throughout Florida.
To top it off we have our first named storm of the season. Her name is Andrea. Imagine the excitement I had to know a storm has been named after my rambunctious 6 yr. old daughter. Now they say the storm is no big deal and we may see a little rain out of it but not enough to help out our drought. For those of you who don't live in
Florida our hurricane season doesn't begin until June 1st. So we are not excited to hear that the tropical storms are starting in 3 wks. early.
On another note , Andrea has a severe rash, which I thought was sea lice, but I think now it's possibly poison ivy. It continues to spread all over her and is very itchy. We are trying everything to get rid of it, but it's a slow process. Anyone who has any miracle cures please let me know.