Will Hawkins

Speaking of cooling off at night: I was asked at one time why it always rains at 3:00 am in Miami and other coastal cities? Of course, I had to give the smart-ass answer that it was an arrangement between the Miami Chamber of Commerce, Tourist Bureau and the god of storms, but there is a meteorological explanation. Miami, as is Charleston, is a sea coastal city made up of a very large number of 'tourist hotels' with the normal collection of streets and parking lots. These structures heat up during the daytime in the strong sunlight, but the ocean, while the surface layers heat up some, is just too large a body of water, which has a high specific heat, to heat up to any great depth, so it acts as a heat sink, maintaining about 80℉ surface temperature day and night. This means that the sunshine creates a bubble of heated air over the city at high pressure and causes a wind to blow from the heated land out over the cooler sea, a land breeze that warms the beaches. At night the concrete masses of the city cool by radiation much more quickly than the surface of the ocean nearby, reversing the high and low-pressure areas and causing saturated air from over the now warmer ocean to flow back over the land, a sea breeze. As this moist air flows back over the now cooler land, it loses its ability to retain water vapor which condenses and falls out as rain, usually, depending on other weather conditions between midnight and morning twilight when the sun starts to heat the concrete masses once again. This repeating pattern of heating and cooling brings about the late night or early morning light rains that frequently do so much to clear the air over coastal cities, warm the beaches during the day and cool the night-time hours. This has been a long-winded explanation of the early morning rains affecting large coastal cities, now just don't inquire as to the causes of hurricanes as that would inspire another long-winded meteorological explanation!

I was so fortunate in my employment. I taught classes in a subject that was popular with international students at the Community College level. My boys were eager to learn and were always polite - respectful of a teacher as that was the way they had been trained in Asian schools. I was sorry to reach the mandatory retirement age.

Every one of your commenters is down on Sylvia... she is acting just as might be expected of a spoiled, self-centered bitch. Her needs are more important to her than the fact that there is someone in trouble. After the police have gone she will start to clean up the mess and perhaps will discover something they missed for lack of familiarity with the house. It is necessary for an author to toss someone like her into the mix from time to time just because her reactions are so typical.

There are many small word errors in this chapter, so many that I will not waste time going over them all. The story of all the families coming together is what makes the chapter great. However, as I have been reading these chapters from the beginning of the series I have noticed the number of grammar errors has reduced. I believe the author is learning as he writes further into the series.

Giving the concept of time to beings that live essentially fro one sunrise to another would be a difficult task. Teaching the boys to sign will be difficult as well, good luck. At any rate, I learned something from my research - I did not realize that each nation or language group had their own version of sign language. I can understand the reason for a multitude of languages stemming from different roots in the world, but why different signs for the same concept, that I do not understand. The idea of, for example, mother, would be the same no matter if the languages used different words for it.

like a plague or something?” - like a plaque or something?” More information about Page Boys: in a traditional - man\woman wedding, a number of little girls would precede the bride and her father down the aisle scattering flower petals for them to walk on, these are known as Flower Girls, and several Page Boys would be following after the bride to help her manage her train which can be very long. However, I have no idea what Page Boys would do at a gay wedding as the other thing they do is assist a knight in formal ceremonies and I have not heard of a groom carrying a sword in a wedding procession.

For your information, the word for a young man who wanders around shouting a person's name is Page. He even has a special haircut named after him. In history, a page was the servant of a knight. He usually announced the name of his knight when his boss entered a room for the first time. join you at this alter the place where a marriage occurs is an altar, a table with holy decorations, candlesticks, statues, crosses, etc, set at the front of a Christian church.

I find myself on the other side of the river from you folks. I am a life-long sufferer from sinus problems and as a result, have a very limited sense of smell. Oh, I can smell a skunk if he is nearby or a rose if it is held right before my face, but I must constantly worry about offending normal folk as I am never sure whether I offend or not at any particular time, and I miss the smells involved in sexual coupling. The smell of my boyfriend left on his pillow for example - just not there, sigh. So there are good things and bad things to smells. The only thing I have to make up for my lost sense of smell is a great color acuity. I can tell the difference between violet, purple, puce and so forth and many of my friends cannot.

From time to time I read stories on GA written by Australian authors. It took me weeks to be able to understand the slang they used. Now I've got to learn to translate cockney as well -- heaven help a poor American!!!! Remember the quotation from the Canadian/American Peace Arch located on the border at Blane, Washington: "Two countries separated by a common language." No, that is not a quotation, it is a joke circulated through both Canada and the USA. I recently listened to a portion of Elizabeth II's Christmas Message from the BBC. Her upper-class accent mixed in with the Royal "We" immediately lost me and I had to read the subtitles, obviously printed on the screen for us poor Yanks who cannot understand the "Queen's English."

A remark that was passed about teaching the old ones sign language so they could communicate without speaking piqued my interest so I did a little investigation into sign language. I discovered to my surprise that there are nearly as many sign languages in the world as there are spoken languages! Even American Sign Language (ASL) is different from British Sign Language (BSL), French, Japanese, etc and someone who uses ASL will most likely not understand BSL. I was dumbfounded! My big question is, WHY? The concept of 'mother' is the same in every language, why is the sign different?

It is interesting to me that POTUS still has between 30% and 40% support from polls taken among the voters in the US. With the way the American election system works, 40% is probably enough to get him re-elected. I think the expression frequently used at the end of Presidential speeches of 'God Bless America' might better be 'God Save America'. I also recognize that this country is not blameless; consider the incarceration of Japanese\Americans at the time of the Second World War, compounded by the lack of any assistance to them when they were freed. This country has reacted with fear and loathing to many incidents in our history. Our first reaction is like that of the general in this story is usually: "Kill them!".

I am concerned that involving the military and the President might be an error. I have been chastised on GA for expressing an opinion of POTUS, so I will not subject myself to that punishment again. But anyone can google the date that Upper and Lower Canada along with Nova Scotia, became a country and the date of the British attack on Washington.

“That’s our que!” - “That’s our cue!”

I look forward to you’re having one soon - I look forward to you having one soon

You didn’t coward like we did… - maybe cower would be better here. Wham, whir, thank you, sir - Aha, the gay version of Wham, bang, thank you, ma'am. I have never heard that before. I love it!!!!!

isn’t for the fair faint of heart that was it for me…yeah, yeah. The value quoted is about right for a silver Hungarian ducat but the value for the smallest gold Hungarian ducat is closer to $1,500 - 2018 values.

He gave his father a crocked grin. - He gave his father a crooked grin.

a ship without a rubber - a ship without a rudder

It looks to me that what our author is saying is now that the race no longer needs big boobs for feeding or broad hips for easy parturition that more and more gay relationships will develop and be acceptable by the remainder of humanity. Certainly, an interesting direction to take. All I can say is, we shall see.

for him and I take a shower - for him and me to take a shower

except what he gives, - accept what he gives,

dressed well man in a sweater, - dressed well in a sweater, or dressed well as a man in a sweater.

Small light were on inside, - Small lights were on the inside, the curled into the fetal - they curled into the fetal position and went to sleep.

doing things that wasn’t…authorized - that weren't…authorized

Now Colin and I was bringing Sorin - Now Colin and I were bringing Sorin calm and trying to escape - calm and from trying to escape