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It Was Johnny’s Backyard Too…

It Was Johnny’s Backyard Too…

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Maybe you didn’t know….. …..but…just up the road from our swamp…is where Johnny Weissmuller’s “Tarzan” movies were filmed back in the 1930’s and ’40’s….. *****(Johnny Weissmuller)***** I grew up reading Edgar Rice Burroughs and Zane Grey books….. *****(Edgar Rice Burroughs)***** We had all of my Dad’s old books…and for a slow reader…I read them voraciously….. They were great….. *****(Zane Grey)***** My childhood games were fashioned around Zane Grey’s Old West and Edgar’s African…

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***The Eve Of The Ween***

***The Eve Of The Ween***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I love this Holiday….. *****(Originally It Was A Carved Jack o’ Lantern Turnip)***** …..it’s an excuse to eat candy…but really…who needs an excuse to eat those bite-sized wonders?….. …..or an excuse to dress strangely…(my older daughter looked in my closet and said my wardrobe was still dated from the ’60’s and ’70’s)….. …..Don’t Touch My Fringe and Embroidered Denim or my Tie-Dye!….. And Doc Martens are time-less…. …..(a costume to some…can be someone…

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Flannel Shirts & Bare Feet

Flannel Shirts & Bare Feet

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  It’s the end of January….. I’m here in the northern hemisphere….. ……so unless you are hanging around below the equator….. …..it’s either chilly or it’s freezing outside….. Because I live in fun/sunny Florida….. …..it’s chilly….. …..the heater had to cut on…..!!!….. …..and it’s doing so with regularity…..!!!….. It has a different sound than the swoosh of the air conditioner….. …..and the first few times it flips on during the cold season….. …..there’s a definitive/disconcerting burning-smell….. …..it always makes me…

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More Bufo Toads

More Bufo Toads

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I found another one of those nasty boogers….. He/she was hiding out under the goat’s salt block pan….. When I flipped the pan over to drain out the accumulated rain water…..he just squatted there…..staring at me….. It must be “that” time of the summer when they are more visibly prevalent….. Maybe they are preparing for hibernation….. …..awaiting that one cold day in January….. They are big heavy toads… Hard to miss… Very different than the normal/warty/common toad… The regular toads…

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~~~~~~~~M. R. DUCKS~~~~~~~~

~~~~~~~~M. R. DUCKS~~~~~~~~

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We should have four (original) Black Runner Ducks… So when I only counted three of the silly birds running around the pasture……. …..I got concerned….. It meant (most probably) one of two things……. …..Number #1…..that one of the ducks had gotten off’ed……. …..or….. …..Number #2…..that one of the silly duck hens had laid a clutch of eggs (somewhere)…..and was starting to set on it……. …..and given all of the predacious/hungry critters that wander around this farm after dark….. …..leaving a…

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May Day ~~~ Tra! La!

May Day ~~~ Tra! La!

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It’s the First of May! Whoopie! It’s a day that (for me) symbolically signals the beginning of Summer… The Sweltering…..Steaming…..Sauna…..of a Sub-Tropical-Summer in Sunny Florida… I could celebrate the First of June as the summer’s symbolic start… But the first of June is the beginning of Hurricane Season……. …..so, I’m not too thrilled about celebrating “that” one… ~~~~~~~So, the First of May it is~~~~~~~ Tra!  La! Today was sunny and cool with a brilliant blue sky… I hope it bodes…

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It’s Caterpillar Season

It’s Caterpillar Season

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  Yippee…….(!)… It’s an annual event……… Something to look forward too…..(?)… IT’S………………………CATERPILLAR SEASON!!!!!!! They show up every year on or about this month……. …………………but is it really something to look forward too?…………………. At a certain point these caterpillars love to drop on you from the trees above you……. …..some people are allergic to these creepy bugs……. …..just look at the spiky…hairy…sticky-out thingies all over them…….(!)… …..I suppose I should do some research on these boogers……. …..I don’t even know what…

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Opportunistic Papaya

Opportunistic Papaya

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I didn’t plant it… It just showed up… …..and kept growing… …..and growing… …..and growing…… I don’t remember even buying a papaya anytime during the last year… …..but someone in the area must have……. …..and then aided by some low-flying, papaya-fed, digesting bird……. Voila! …..Papaya Tree! …..actually I’ve discovered, it’s not a tree……. …..it’s an herb….. What!?! …..well then, it’s a really big herb. ***More Information Than You Ever Needed To Know About Papayas*** Our “tree” is over two-stories tall…

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And This Little Piggy………….

And This Little Piggy………….

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  Prior to Suzanne-Annette’s encounter with the Florida Panther a couple of days ago……. A couple of days before that, I had a big surprise. It was a backyard encounter with a sizeable herd of wild pigs……. Usually I find myself defending this farm in my underwear or pajamas…….at least this time I was fully clothed.  Patrice was faithfully at my side…….so there’s a plus……. It was in the broad daylight of mid-afternoon…….no sneaking around in the dark of night…

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We Just Think We’re In Charge

We Just Think We’re In Charge

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    When you’re emptying your dishwasher, watching your big screen TV, or sorting laundry from the dryer…….you think you have all of your ducks in a row…….all in the comfort of your air conditioned home… Then you get a phone call like this………… My road-trip friend, Suzanne-Annette had quite the story to relay. S.A. has a number of horses and cows.  Her property is also very close to the Withlacoochee Forest and River. Like I’ve said before——-Florida is not…

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