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~Fun With Water Tanks~

~Fun With Water Tanks~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Earlier this week…I talked about the “rubbish” that was at the bottom of our water tanks….. I thought this post could discuss water tanks and their added paraphernalia and why….. …..(Geez…that sounds so boring)….. But it’s really not…it’s super interesting…and I’ll make it fun….. There are good reasons for all of it…(really there are)….. …..usually….. Florida has lots of bugs…specifically…Florida has lots of mosquitoes….. They need standing water to lay their eggs….. …..during…

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Hard Freeze

Hard Freeze

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I know the wording “Hard Freeze” is not something you think about usually when you think of Florida….. …..but it’s a thing….. It’s not something that the beach-goers…or vacationers think of when they think of Florida either….. …..depending on the timing…it can be a good thing…or a really bad thing for the farmers….. Me…I just bob along with what Mother Nature throws our way…(except I get REALLY expletively-mouthy about her hurricanes  &  big…

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Not Just Pythons…

Not Just Pythons…

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I know I’ve said this before….. But there’s more to Florida than pristine beaches….. …..beautiful sunrises over the Atlantic Ocean….. …..equally gorgeous sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico….. All these panoramic vistas to be enjoyed with pitchers of margaritas or blenders full of banana-daiquiri-delights….. But….. Now you know there are gigantic pythons lurking around the mango trees in your back yard….. …..and alligators chasing you off the golf course…..(How Fast Can An Alligator…

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***Hard Freeze?***

***Hard Freeze?***

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** I’m not actually sure if we did have a hard freeze here….. I think there’s some sort of meteorological formula for the temperature getting down to below freezing for a set amount of time to be considered a “hard freeze”….. I know it got down to below 32F degrees the other night…..but I’m not sure how long it lasted….. I also…

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Where Have All The Skeeters Gone?

Where Have All The Skeeters Gone?

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** Well….. Where are they? …..here we are…..squatting in the normal/steamy/swampy/water & scum….. …..the same stuff we get every summer….. …..per usual….. …..(it’s the norm for this time of the year)….. ………………………………..Whoopty Doo………………!!!………………. Normally you have to take a putty knife to scrape the mosquitoes off your arms and legs and neck….. ………………………………….but this year…..?…………………………….. Where are they….?….. I just spent almost…

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What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

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I just read that approximately 750 million sterilized mosquitoes are due to be released in the Florida Keys… *****Not Guaranteed To Be Sterile…..?…..hmmmmmmmm***** It’s an experimental study…..or some such thing… Well…….Oakie Dokie then… …..a good friend, Doc, recently pointed out (he actually lives with that alias)….. …..why worry about 750 million…..(?)….. …..that’s already what’s in your back yard on any given evening….. …..hmmmmmmm…..I think Doc has a point there….. …..on paper…..the study looks good….. …..the logic sounds wonderful….. Sterilized mosquitoes…

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