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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Chicken Wire Repair

Chicken Wire Repair

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Repairs around a farm are a revolving To Do List….. You can’t expect it’s ever going to be a completed list….. The best you can hope for is a list that’s semi under control….. Because sure as the day is long…there’s going to be a fresh disaster…which requires immediate attention…and quickly gets graduated to the Top of the List….. We have some fairly decent poultry coops here on the farm…they aren’t the of…

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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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~Sports Medicine Conference & The World Cup~

~Sports Medicine Conference & The World Cup~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I need a show of hands…how many of you remember that I’m not just a Swamp Hag…I’m also an Athletic Trainer(?)….. Well…I am…and I still keep my licenses current….. And in order to do that…I have to collect the illustrious C.E.U.’s (continuing educational units)…on a regular basis….. I’ve been doing this for years…for my Massage Therapy licenses and my Athletic Training licenses….. I’ve been doing this since the Younger Dryas…and I can honestly…

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Pepper & Puddles

Pepper & Puddles

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We’ve discovered that Pepper does not like getting her feet wet….. Well…when I say “we’ve discovered”…what I really mean is that Mary Constance found out (while whipping off of her during last season’s Fox Hunts)….. Pepper does Not like traversing anything that contains any amount of water….. She refuses to step in it…cross it…or navigate it in any way….. Usually after a great deal of “cajoling” (that’s what we’re going to call it…

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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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~One More Clydesdale~

~One More Clydesdale~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I just looked down at the tee shirt I’m wearing right now…and it says “Boss Mare”….. I suppose that’s true…but on a farm…it’s important to establish who’s in charge….. I’d like to point out…in addition to being boss mare…I’m also alpha bitch…but if you know me…you know that already applies….. …..(someone’s gotta do it)….. Pepper and Crimson are firmly ensconced here on our little farm already….. I’ve got my Clydesdale mare (Pepper) and…

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