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*The Coming Steam*

*The Coming Steam*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We try to get up early…… For the past months it’s been a regular routine…get up…open up the house…let in the morning air…and let out the night time staleness (i.e. slumbering hound flatulence)….. I’d like to say…I would be comfortable leaving the windows open all night long…but I’m not….. Some of the house’s windows are low…and too close to the outside ground….. Some of the windows have been replaced in the house where…

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~~~October Weather~~~

~~~October Weather~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* October weather….. …..ahhhhh…… It’s been so hot…but we’ve finally had our first “cold front” putter through….. …..this morning…in the gray of the early dawn…there’s a heavy mist in the back pasture….. You can almost hear everyone & everything…breath a sigh of relief….. …..from sunburns to goosebumps…that’s Florida’s weather….. I’m so grateful for that chill right now….. I love how the mist rolls in…it has a sentience to it….. …..the whole world is muffled……..

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***A Rare (medium-rare?) Trip To The Beach***

***A Rare (medium-rare?) Trip To The Beach***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** ~~~~~Florida~~~~~ ~~~~~(what’s not to love?)~~~~~ My older daughter and her oldest friend went to the beach last week….. Both women were born and raised in Florida….. Both were born after the introduction of sun-block…and both know how to take care of themselves in the sun….. Where my era was known to slather themselves with Crisco and Coppertone (before the advent of SPF)…their generation is completely SPF-Conscious….. The Sun-Protection-Factor….. Both used sun block lotion…they…

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~Florida…Not For The Faint of Heart~

~Florida…Not For The Faint of Heart~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** In the past…I’ve covered the pet python invasion of the Florida Everglades…and the subsequent need for an annual competition for the capture of as many of these big snakes as possible….. *****(Python or Boa Constrictor…I Don’t Know the Difference)***** Pet iguanas have to be a close second…in terms of their ability to survive and thrive in Sunny Florida when they are set “free”….. Then there are the fun Fire Ants….. …..they need a…

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~~~POLLEN & Springtime~~~

~~~POLLEN & Springtime~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** POLLEN!—It’s great for bees….. …..but not so great for a number of my friends….. My family’s lucky…pollen doesn’t affect us…if it does…it’s not noticeable….. …..others aren’t so lucky….. Red eyes…runny noses…itchies…& sneezing….. I know when it’s happening…because the oak tree’s are so thick with it…my red truck looks orange….. …..a simple windshield wiper wash…just leaves gooey/yellow/pasty ruts….. …..I have a bottle of Windex in my truck…along with a windshield scraper…for all the pollen-putty……..

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