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~~~Chilliness~~~

~~~Chilliness~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s finally here….. The doors are open…the A/C’s off….. …..everything is getting a (much needed) airing….. …..and we’re COLD(ish)…(70 degrees)…and it’s wonderful!….. I’m even celebrating the return of my Raynaud’s Syndrome…(which…as you know…I fondly refer to as my cadaver-fingers)….. …..(Why Are My Fingers White)….. …..(I wonder what it would be like if I still lived up North?)….. I’ve been keeping track of what’s happening in New York State….. Lordy George!………….that’s a lot of…

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*Duck Weather*

*Duck Weather*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Our ducks love the rainy season…the swamp loves it…we’ve had a surplus of rainfall going into the dry season this year….. I won’t complain….. …..but if I’ve learned anything over the years…don’t under-estimate or assume you know what Mother Nature’s up to….. …..the Lady can change her mind….. …..and often does….. But…ducks will always be attracted to water & mud…(that’s a Universal-Constant)….. We have Runner Ducks in our front yard and pastures…and Black-Bellied…

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Friday & Ian

Friday & Ian

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First and Foremost….. We’re all okay and we survived…the horses are fine…all the animals are fine….. The house…the barn…the land…the vehicles are fine….. …..the round pen…not so much…..it got smooshed….. We’re all still a little rattled….. …..a little fried….. Who am I kidding…..?….. My eyes are rolling around in my head like lost marbles….. Our comfort-zone/homeostasis will take a while to settle in again…(once we find where it blew to and ultimately landed)….. My friend (further South by only about…

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***Relief***Guilt***Continued Worry***

***Relief***Guilt***Continued Worry***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The affects of Hurricane Ian will be arriving shortly….. …………………right now…it is literally…that calm before the storm………………… We’re already exhausted…both physically & emotionally….. Everything is done…that can be done….. Zone A and Zone B have had mandatory evacuations in our county…(we are inland by about thirty-five miles from the Gulf of Mexico)…so we’re not in any mandatory zone….. (Photo by: National Hurricane Center)—Ian—we’re on a first name basis now)… …..the main North/South Interstate…

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***Invest 96L…Then…Tropical Storm Ian…Now…Hurricane Ian***

***Invest 96L…Then…Tropical Storm Ian…Now…Hurricane Ian***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Invest 96L…became a Tropical Storm…and then Hurricane Ian….. …..with a proper name….. ………….it’s Ian…………. ………….Yay!………….sigh…………. We’re all glued to the updates from the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration….. …..(NOAA)….. …..You gotta get with the jargon:  spaghetti models…cones of influence…projections…(my beloved Wind Shear)—(there’s not enough)…evacuation routes…enhanced satellite imagery…tides…storm surges…long duration event….. …..sigh………….it can make you crazy (or crazier)….. …..if we’re in Ian’s path…it looks like it’s projection could hit on Wednesday…or Thursday…who knows!?!….. …..so many…

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A New Hunt Season

A New Hunt Season

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** The new Fox Hunt Season is just around the corner….. …..well…it’s actually already begun….. Even though our first Hunt for Cubbing Season isn’t until the beginning of October….. …..we just had our Annual Business Meeting….. It’s that yearly get-together after the heat of the summer and the long off-season….. We all go a little stir-crazy….. …..going from air-conditioned houses…to air-conditioned cars…to air-conditioned whatevers….. We’re all alittle desperate for conversations with other horse-people…anything to…

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***There’s A Something***

***There’s A Something***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** There’s a “something” out there…and it’s heading this way….. …..but we are tip-toe’ing through the 2022 Hurricane Season….. We ducked Hurricane Fiona…she skimmed poor Puerto Rico…their power-grid is down…and they are flooded…and a mess….. It hopefully seems like Fiona will sweep to the right and go back out to sea…hopefully far out to sea…(watch out Canada)….. ………….but…………. …..there’s a “something” out there…waiting…next in line….. I know nothing about meteorological forecasts…I catch on when…

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*Potential Tropical Cyclone Number One*

*Potential Tropical Cyclone Number One*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Yep….. We have started the Hurricane Season for 2022….. …..there’s no slow warm-up to this year’s active season….. …..nope…..we just jumped right in….. Normally…..the real serious point of the hurricane season peaks around September….. …..(I hate to think what this September will be like if we’ve started off with such a bang this year)….. But…..we had a healthy wind-shear-going for this one…..(I hope it stays around for a few more months)….. I do…

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