Tom & Nan Dot Com

Welcome to fall, again… We have a few interesting tidbits to shed some light on…

NHC has designated Ophilia a hurricane. It’s forecast to safely miss the US. as of this writing it’s moving NNW at 10 knots and it’s packing 100kt sustained winds with gusts up to 120kt and a Tropical storm warning is in effect for Bermuda. Official forecast and models brings the storm due east of the island by 8pm Eastern time on the 1st.

In our neck of the woods we’re going to see our first dip of the mercury below 50 degrees for this season. should be in the upper 40s tomorrow morning.

Fall is definitely in full swing as the annual change of colors is in full swing up north and I’ve even seen a maple tree here turn yellowish brown leaves out.

The weather has been perfect for the past few days, and it’s going to get better over the next few days… and the models show good weather for at least the next week. It’s a great time to live in paradise.

If you’re out and about in the local area, check out the Destin Seafood Festival (in Destin, Florida).

We ate at this really cool place last night.  Was hard not to look around at the “junk” on the wall.  Sanford’s is named after the old hit TV show, Sanford and Son… If you HAVEN’T seen the show, Fred Sanford was in the salvage (junk) business… the decorations on the walls here were just awesome… A lot of old signs and license plates from the great plains states, Along with a couple of old gas pumps and probably tons of other junk…  The restaurant is inside and old Chicago, Milwaukee, St Paul & Pacific Railroad freight house.

It was quite busy when we first got there and it took a while to get seated, but the wait was worth it.  I would recommend this place to anybody passing through Rapid City.

We stayed a while and left close to closing time… we pretty much had the run of the place to take some pictures… Here are a a few of them:

Oh yeah… this is a restaurant… I had a very tasty rib-eye steak for dinner.