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The Meat Department…Revisited…

The Meat Department…Revisited…

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Our local grocery store is at it again….. The Winn-Dixie Meat Department has put SHRIMPS on sale!….. …..the big ones…the small ones…the ones in between….. *****(Bubba Talking About Shrimp in the Movie Forrest Gump)***** And my quest for the excessive accumulation of proteins continues….. Winn-Dixie…you vex me so….. You little shrimpy bottom-feeding bastards…I do love you….. Both of my daughters were born and raised in sunny sub-tropical Florida….. They learned how to peel…

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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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~~~~~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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The Sprint Through Summer

The Sprint Through Summer

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Hold your breath….. It’s time for that flat out run towards & through Florida’s summer (with all the humid/mossy things that come along for the ride)….. Oh sure…I know it’s still March…and we’ve only just had the Spring Equinox….. …..but that beastly-weather is at our doorstep….. We just had a couple days of cool weather…enough that I started a few fires in our fireplace…(with the doors & windows wide open)…(I’m trying to use…

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…….ssshhhhhhh…….

…….ssshhhhhhh…….

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We’re hedging towards August….. We’re zero’ing in on the height of shhhhh…shhhhh…(hurricane season)….. …..it’s been quiet here so far….. …..shhhhh….. …..maybe if we tip-toe though the middle of August up to & through the Ides of September….. …..we might just luck out and totally skip through this season…..?…..maybe….. …………………Hope Springs Eternal………………… There’s a lot of Sahara dust blowing this way off of the African continent…..(that’s a good thing)….. …..(every surface in my house…

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!!!Shark Week!!!

!!!Shark Week!!!

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** ***Just What Is Shark Week?*** It’s this week!….. …..(it actually started yesterday)….. Oooooooh!  I’d forgotten to add shark attacks to the list!….. It’s another thing that Florida has going for it….. …..along with the fire ants…and the snakes…and iguanas…and alligators….. The east coast states only have to worry about shark attacks on one side of their state….. …..the same goes for the west coast and other Gulf states….. …..but Florida has the distinct…

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Nooooooooooooo…….Delta!…….Nooooooooooooo!!!

Nooooooooooooo…….Delta!…….Nooooooooooooo!!!

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Do you hear that…..(?)….. That rhythmic thumping…..(?)….. …..that’s me hitting my head against the wall….. Apparently there is indeed a DELTA out there right now in the Gulf of Mexico…..!!!….. *****A PROJECTED HURRICANE FOUR ALREADY!?!***** *****Record Breaking & It’s Not Over Yet***** There have been a record-breaking ten/(10)/X named storms that have hit the continental United States so far this hurricane season…..(?)….. …..oh, geez….. ***CRAP!…..CRAP!…..CRAP!…..*** Delta appears (at this point) to be motoring its way towards poor Louisiana again….. …..Is…

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