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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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Patience…And The CSBT

Patience…And The CSBT

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* He came back….. Mister Doctor Brigid and Patience (his tractor) came back again…and we didn’t even ask them to….. …..and the phenomenal CSBT (Claw-Scoop-Bucket Thingie) also came along for the ride….. We’ve decided that Mister Doctor Brigid needs an alias…and we decided to call him “Padraig”….. Don’t you think it’s got a nice ring to it?….. Well…I was happy with ALL the work that Padraig & Patience had already accomplished last week….. …..but…

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CSBT To The Rescue

CSBT To The Rescue

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Our land stewardship and custodial responsibilities have been difficult these past few years….. There’s been so much to do…(post Hurricane Milton)…so many various stages of clean up…and all of them requiring machinery that we do not own…(yet)….. I’ve decided that a cherry picker is now Number #1 on my Christmas Wish List…(Santa are you listening?)….. Since Milton…there have been a lot of dead trees and fallen trees and trees “threatening” to fall…which have…

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The Sizzle Is Arriving

The Sizzle Is Arriving

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We are looking down the barrel of the steaming sizzling hot glowing heat of this coming Summer months….. …..oh goodie….. Since living in Florida (from the early 1970’s) I’ve learned to dread its Summers….. They’re tough….. Even though the summer coincides with the rainy season…it’s still super Hot…and the rains just add to the steam….. …..(I’ve always wondered why we don’t call the rainy season here…a monsoon season?)….. …..the steaming roads…the steaming condensation…

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Mosquitoes When It’s Wet…Flies When It’s Dry

Mosquitoes When It’s Wet…Flies When It’s Dry

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…that’s the story here right now….. Here in our little Swamp…it’s normally wet…very wet…squishy & soggy wet….. …..and we have more than the average share of mosquitoes….. But when it’s such a huge drought…(like what we’re in the middle of right now)….. …..we have flies….. …..nasty biting flies….. There are big flies…little flies…black flies…yellow flies…and flies with neon colored swiveling eyes….. *****(Biting Flies–And What To Expect)***** And they all bite….. It’s because everything…

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Epic Drought

Epic Drought

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Here it is…the first of May…and this is traditionally Florida’s “dry season”….. But this year it’s exceptionally & exceedingly dry….. We are in the middle of a dramatic drought….. I friend just told me that this is the worst drought in a Really Really long time (1890?)….. Everything is crispy and crunchy and dry….. And to state the obvious…there’s a strict “No Burn Ban” in place….. Everyone is taking it seriously…(except for some…

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The Farm Gets A Facelift

The Farm Gets A Facelift

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Hurricane Season is just around the corner…(again………….sigh)….. We counted a lot of accumulated dead trees all around our farm….. …..a lot of limbs hanging over the house….. …..a lot of dead wood just waiting to fall on the gates…or the barn…or our house….. We try to learn going forward…which meant…take down the dead trees…before they take down themselves….. We had the Super-D-Dooper split double trunk of the Live Oak tree in our front…

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*Pasture Repair*

*Pasture Repair*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I know it’s a boring subject for a post….. It’s a boring chore….. It’s a forever chore….. But it’s gotta be done….. And somebody’s gotta do it………….and I’m that somebody….. We need to have the pasture’s electric fencing up to snuff before the mares come home….. They will immediately test it….. …..we need it to “get their attention”…(and unwittingly…ours too)….. We also have to clear out all…or at least most…(or maybe we’ll just…

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The Spring Plant Sale

The Spring Plant Sale

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* The local University’s botanical society just hosted their Annual Spring Plant Sale….. My daughters both went….. They took our “State Fair wagon” with them….. …..that’s kind of scary…because when you have the capacity to drag a wagon around with you….. …..you also have the ability to fill it….. And that’s exactly what happened….. My daughters bought lots of young fruit bearing trees and bushes….. A few years ago…I dutifully bought and planted and…

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