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The Summer Rains

The Summer Rains

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s true….. The regular afternoon thunder boomers have finally begun….. These are separate from the potential of impending tropical storms….. These afternoon lightening extravaganzas have more to do with the daily Gulf water evaporation….. …..and the on shore/or off shore breezes…which move around as the day heats up…or cools down….. As a result…we usually get afternoon lightening storms that you can set your watch by….. With the summertime heat…the regular storms help to…

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Desert Dust…or…Hurricane

Desert Dust…or…Hurricane

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* So…we get desert dust blowing over us…OR…we get an atmosphere that’s prone for a hurricane….. Hmmmmm…decisions…decisions….. Of course…none of this is up to me….. But once again…here goes my best attempt at being an amateur aging meteorologist….. We’re deep into July…and there’s perhaps only the first sign of any tropical weather developments….. We didn’t have ANY named storms in June….. And so far…there have been no tropical named anything….. That predicted Super-Dee-Dooper El…

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~~~Boa Constrictor Bounty~~~

~~~Boa Constrictor Bounty~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The competition is on…once again….. The 2026 Florida Python Competition has begun…it’s an annual thing….. The snakes are with us year ’round…but the contest is during the summer in July….. There are awards for the most caught…and the largest caught (they can be over 200 lbs)….. *****(Python Challenge Rules)***** *****(Some More Questions & Answers About The Competition)***** I just watched on the news recently…that those slithering boogers have migrated west of the Florida…

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Air Conditioning #101

Air Conditioning #101

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…we’re in the deep depths of a Florida summer….. Using the word…”sweltering” doesn’t really do it justice….. Intolerable…blazing…swollen…squishy…searing…scorching…sluiced…bacterial…waterlogged…decomposing….. Oh………….and molding….. It’s so easy to crawl into anything that has a motorized artificial environment…(i.e. air-conditioning)…and hibernate until the weather breaks….. …..sometime in November….. We hope for daily rains…which don’t always happen….. When they don’t….. …..the temperatures easily climb well into the ninety’s…(and that’s even before the “feels like” temperatures…which are well into the hundred’s)……..

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The Way Of The DoDo

The Way Of The DoDo

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Our local friendly Winn Dixie grocery store is closed now….. There’s plywood up over all of the windows….. It’s such sadness….. All the local stores that we knew of in or near our area have closed and have been sold to the Aldi’s chain….. Remember the movie…”Because of Winn Dixie”…(and yes…we have a copy of the DVD)….. That was a great campy movie…(there was even an Irish Wolfhound-type dog in it)….. But all…

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***Wasps***

***Wasps***

*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Wasps are ill-tempered bugs with ongoing anger management issues….. Those little athletic enraged creatures can slap up a nest from one day to the next…in places where you least expect them….. …..places you previously thought were safe…and stinger free….. My older daughter just found a wasp’s nest inside the refueling flap of her truck….. It’s like they just sit there and wait…until they can sting anyone who unsuspectingly opens the flap to refuel…

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I Love The Smell Of Kopertox In The Morning

I Love The Smell Of Kopertox In The Morning

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* ~~~Summer is Here~~~ We seem to be in the middle of changing from a record drought…to the extreme heat of summer and its accompanying deluges….. The humidity is cranking up…the armpit algae is back again in full force…it’s the season of mold & fungus….. As the turgid smothering humidity takes effect…the familiar summer smells of citronella and Kopertox and sweat take center stage….. Ah…Summer….. With the changing weather from bone dry to soppy…

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~~~More Weeds~~~

~~~More Weeds~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We have more invasive “weeds” to talk about….. ………….Oh, Goodie…………. Last summer I was on an extended rant about the aggressive sturdy virulent Dog Fennel….. Don’t get me wrong…it’s still here…and it’s trying to keep its foothold…Everywhere….. …..But Wait!…There’s More!….. Remember the burrs from last fall?….. Specifically the ones that decided to take up residency all over the Irish Wolfhounds….. Well….. I went Tasmanian Devil on them last Fall…(albeit…too late)….. Because now…apparently….. A…

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*2026 Hurricane Season*

*2026 Hurricane Season*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I don’t want to do this post….. It’s my annual obligation…of a sort….. It’s gotta be done…I suppose….. We just had the beginning of this Year’s Hurricane Season on the first of June….. Can you give me a Hip Hip?………….Can you give me a Hurray?….. No?….. …..I hear you….. I don’t feel like cheering either….. …..but it’s inevitable…as long as you live here…in Sunny Subtropical Florida….. We’re still in a drought………….but the burn…

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~Donkey Update~

~Donkey Update~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Sibyl and Bartholomew are doing fine….. We are in the process of repairing and rebuilding the back paddock…which will be their home….. Not to dwell on the obvious….. But Hurricane Milton did leave his “mark” on us…and we are still weeding and wading our way clear of all the extra “To Do’s” that he left for us to fix and clean up….. Now that all of the stacks of wood/brush/& logs have been…

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