Sand in the Pool Sweep (RAY)

RAY has been acting strange. RAY is the pool sweep that swims in my pool keeping it clean.

This morning, Dore, who services the pool, cleaned RAY because he was acting strange.
RAY was full of sand. Sand. You could see it because it was attached to the various bits of foliage that RAY sucked up. The Rubillini palm is beginning to shed her pods.

It was a very very fine sand, bits of black in it. The sand would have to be fine for it to get through the pool screens.
Dore asked me if I threw sand in the pool. We laughed.

I pondered on the sand. Dore said that she read something about having sand from sandstorms in Africa reaching Florida.
hmmm I thought.

Where is it coming from? Maybe it is just environmental, here. We've had such a hot drought period, and I'm only about 35 miles from the Atlantic. But it hasn't been windy, and there haven't been any storms, so how could that sand have blown?

Then my blogger mind kicked in. What have I been blogging about? hmmmm
Radiation.
Nuclear fission.

The most dangerous thing in a nuclear accident, or nuclear explosion, is the smoke. Within the smoke are the radioactive particles.
Accidents are happening all the time, only they don't tell us. They're afraid we'll panic.
Japan had one not long ago.
http://hmmmquantummusings.blogspot.com/2006/03/backwards-from-forward-p.html

I don't even want to allow myself to think that way. But it is a definite visual, and a definite hmmm. Where did the sand come from? Is it Comet Dust? Is it Everything? Must be comet dust. It is definitely nothing radioactive. The pool looks great. Sand in RAY. Lots of sand. hmmm
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YUP - IT IS COMET DUST. Just got the news :

"This Just In-----Comet 73P_Schwassmann_Wachmann Breaking Up

On the night of April 23 to 24, ESO's Very Large Telescope observed fragment B of the comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 3 that had split a few days earlier. To their great surprise, the ESO astronomers discovered that the piece just ejected by fragment B was splitting again! Five other mini-comets are also visible on the image. The comet seems thus doomed to disintegrate but the question remains in how much time."

Yup. We're being constantly dusted with comet dust. I find that comforting.
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UPDATE AT 6:16 PM

I was just out front, looking at the sofa I'm getting rid of. Why am I looking at it? Because the garbage men didn't take it on Tuesday morning, it was put out Monday, so It has been out there for a few days. I just want it gone already - too many memories. I freaked out over it, took my marker, went out and wrote on it " eddies in the space time continuum and this is his sofa. Arthur Dent was here. Rest in Peace".
{Douglas Adams. Hitchiker}
At least it made me laugh. Anyway, I noticed that there was all this black stuff all over the cushions, so I started brushing it with my hand. It felt like a cross between sand and glass. That's how the comet dust they collected was described. I need to go try to scoop some up.

A Day Made of Comet Dust
hmmm
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I'm already done with the new Springsteen CD. We know that I'm a big Bruce fan I am, but this one isn't a constant listener. Mostly, it reminds me too much of the old days. But I'm ever so glad the songs are once again being sung.
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We're coming up on Iyar, Taurus. Another energy shift.
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Peace