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*Where’s the Cold Front?*

*Where’s the Cold Front?*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Another Cold Front WAS PROMISED… ~~~Tampa, FL ~~~As of 7:48 AM EDT ~~~83F° ~~~Feels like 95F° ~~~H: 85F° ~~~L: 80F° __________________________________ This was the weather report that flashed across my computer screen this morning….. Geez!  Louise!….. How can that happen…..(?) …..where you get an actual registered temperature of 83F………but it “feels like” 95F?…..(?) …..(and it DOES feel like 95F+)….. It’s like you’re wading through a micro-waved/humid bowl of chunky soup….. I had gotten…

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~~~This Summer’s Drought~~~

~~~This Summer’s Drought~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Here’s a fun little fact about humid sub-tropical climates…(and probably tropical ones too)….. *****(Where Are The Sub-Tropics?)***** When there’s not enough moisture in the air or the ground (how is that EVER possible in a Swamp?)….. …..then the assortment of small (and LARGE) crawling things…slither and clatter out of their hidey-holes and attempt to come into your house (by whatever means necessary)…to get more water….. *****(Bugs Need A Drink Too)***** And…there’s been an…

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*****Idalia…the days after*****

*****Idalia…the days after*****

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Hurricane Idalia did as promised and motored through….. We were incredibly lucky….. We only had extra wind and extra rain….. …..others were not so lucky….. We live thirty-five miles from the Gulf of Mexico…so storm surge is not an issue…for us….. …..(swamp surge…maybe)….. Most of my friends made it through unscathed….. …..my friends who live south of us in Cape Coral…and Wimauma…weren’t in the hurricane cross-hairs…this time….. …..(they were last year with Hurricane…

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~~~~~Idalia~~~~~

~~~~~Idalia~~~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I had another post planned for today…but Idalia moved into the neighborhood….. Yep…by the time you’re reading this…Idalia…will have decided where she’s going….. …..although I am writing this post ahead of time…Idalia…IS…OUT THERE….. She WILL be doing Something…Somewhere….. …..and she’s cranking away…and growing….. I just heard…the Gulf water temperature (which she will soon be motoring over) is about 90F….. …..”they” (the meteorologists) say the high Gulf water temperature is like rocket fuel for…

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Hilary?…Who?…Where?…Huh?

Hilary?…Who?…Where?…Huh?

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Come  On  Now!….. Really?….. I’m here in sunny sub-Tropical Florida…trying to reckon with this year’s Hurricane Season….. …..and what do the equally sunny smiling…multiple meteorologists point out to me?….. ……………Hurricane Hilary…………. …..(with one “L”)….. …..What?!?….. …..No!…No!…No!…No!….. That’s the West Coast of the United States?…not the West Coast of Florida?….. Mother Nature…are you sure about this trajectory?….. What is going on with the World?….. …..Florida gets Hurricanes…so does Alabama…Mississippi…Louisiana…and Texas….. Mother Nature…are you really…

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***Beer…It’s Not Just For Breakfast***

***Beer…It’s Not Just For Breakfast***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We all know…..this heat has been brutal….. It’s on-going…it’s unrelenting….. It’s been affecting everybody….. …..All the Flora & Fauna….. The horses are dragging…the ducks are panting…the Irish Wolfhounds refuse to leave the A/C….. …..Mama Pig deals with the heat…by flipping her water tub…and then disappearing in her self-made mud bath….. We are (almost) midway through August….. Fall can’t come fast enough….. We’re trying to make sure everyone one has ample water…all the time……..

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