Missouri Resides in a State of Menopause......

I am pretty sure Mother Nature is schizophrenic, stuck in the midst of a menopausal cycle that refuses to stop or complete itself.   She hears voices that the rest of us do not hear.  Most of the time, she is impulsive, rash, undisciplined and at times grandiose.  Seldom is she predictable.  On a good day, she makes her part of the world shine, glisten and silently gives a peace only nature can provide.   On a bad day, she wreaks havoc on anyone in her path. She can be like a serial killer on a deadly rampage,  killing for the hell of it.

Like most of the middle of the country, Missouri's weather is subject to change on any given day.  It often comes in waves of unrest, changing hourly at times.  Other days it's the same thing for days, or weeks on end. Refusing to change or readjust if nothing else for comforts sake. She does not care.  Mother Nature plays by her own rules.

Today was one of those drastic, schizophrenic days. It was in the 60's when we woke up.  By 2 p.m. it was 75 and I was running the air conditioner while I drove to Centralia.  After stopping at WalMart for about 30 minutes, I came outside to a black and gray angry sky. The temperature had dropped 20 degrees, it had started to sprinkle rain randomly on the windshield.

The sky was amazing. I could literally see the cold front hit us. The clouds were black and gray swirls of motion. There wasn't time to see pictures in the clouds. They were moving and changing too fast. The upper part of the sky was still blue, however the cold front marched angrily through its midst. 

I had to turn on the defroster to see. The wind increased, cleansing trees of their remaining leaves. Traffic slowed.  People were watching the sky, trying to make plans in case a twister possibly dropped from the sky.

Thankfully, we received only what had been forecast the night before, rain and a huge drop in temperatures.  Tomorrow morning the low is supposed to be in the 30's.  These are things we can live with easily.  Nine times out of ten, we usually have a rainy, cold Halloween.  It goes with the holiday.

However, this is Mother Nature just being herself.  A hot flash in the morning followed by a cooling down period, when she takes  a shower.  Before she retires for the night, she takes her meds, sips a hot toddy and finds her electric blanket, all the while making plans for the next day. The voices are quiet.  Her plans for the next few hours are taken care of and tomorrow is only a few hours away.  She smiles to herself, thinking that tomorrow she will really shake things up in a few places.....literally...very, very  literally she will do this randomly around the world.