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To Every Season…..

To Every Season…..

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** *****(The Byrds—Turn! Turn! Turn!)***** …..(apropos nothing…but I was a freshman in high school when that song came out)….. But I digress….. There are Seasons for everything….. There are Seasons for Locusts….. There are Seasons for Cicadas….. …..and Monarch Butterflies….. All sorts of scheduled and timed critters….. But currently…we are finding ourselves knee-deep in Palmetto Bugs….. I would much rather hear the drone of the busy Cicada…creating relaxing white noise…while I drift off to…

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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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Insomnia & The Palmetto Bug

Insomnia & The Palmetto Bug

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Palmetto Bugs are the Humvee-Half-Track vehicles of the bug world….. You can easily hear them clattering down a tile hallway….. Armadillos…alligators…and palmetto bugs have successfully reached their peak on the evolutionary scale…they have evolved into perfect self-sustaining creatures….. …..well…armadillos haven’t learned how to survive crossing a road yet….. …..and palmetto bugs can’t out run a chicken either….. But…alligators….. …..yep…they’re at the perfected-top of their evolutionary ladder…and I will leave them well enough alone…right…

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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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***Oh wait…A New Florida Bug?***

***Oh wait…A New Florida Bug?***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** *****(Ants in Florida)***** …..Great…I’ve discovered that there’s a new ant in town….. …..Really?…like we needed another biting bug added to the list?….. I found out the old-fashioned way…I got bit….. …..repeatedly….. My daughters tried to say it was my fault for being out in the garage…barefooted….. …..I beg to differ….. I’ve been going out in that same garage for thirty years…barefooted…and this was a first….. I’m still dealing with stealth-squirrels (they continue breaking…

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Copernicus…….really?…

Copernicus…….really?…

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Copernicus is more raccoon than house cat. He’s got Bengal spots, but he’s not a Bengal (that’s a domestic cat breed). He’s a Puma breed that my friend is trying to get recognized by the CFA registry (Cat Fanciers Association). I’m sure he’s more of a raccoon than a house cat……. …..he loves bright-sparklies… Bright-sparklies can be anything that appeal to his kitty-sense of fun-ness & curiosity. …..he collects them, he hides them, he plays with them, he eats them……

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