Jessica Gray's Philosophies, Rants, Information, and Etcetera

If you don't want to hear my story and just want to learn about the stove, scroll pass the second picture.  Otherwise.... I live in Florida.  I don't know if it is due to global warming, but we are getting more hurricanes.  It is no longer a phenomenon that happens ever twenty or so years.  From June 1 to November 30, we are supposed to be in a state of preparedness.  Indeed, you should be.  Gone are the days when hurricanes were viewed as a blessing--an excuse to get off work, to get off school, and to eat lots of junk food that normally you didn't get to eat.  Sometimes I miss the rather festive mood we used to approach hurricanes with, but I understand why it no longer is the case.  When houses started getting devastated, and it was taking FPL longer to restore power (not their fault--Florida's population is larger than it was when I was a child), hurricanes were no longer fun.  You need to be prepared, because even a week before a s...

Getting Nikola (my bicycle) allowed me to explore further than I could on my own two feet, though my trips had to be postponed when the summer heat became intolerable.  After succumbing to heat exhaustion on the last trip, I took the weather and heat index much more seriously.  I became a little disenchanted with a bicycle organization I joined, who seemed to favor touring out-of-the-way places.  Yes, they were often scenic...but after running into trouble, I have to admit that I have a desire to stay closer to civilization--at least for the moment.  It could be too that at heart, I'm a city girl.  I really don't like being far away from other people.  Though my neighbors can annoy me with their loud music sometimes, I try to remember that it is just nice to know that someone is alive out there.  Even in the city, you can find lonely spots that frankly just give me the heebie-jeebies no matter how scenic they are. With the coming of October, the ...