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***Cold Snap—Tra La***

***Cold Snap—Tra La***

**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It was cold when we got up yesterday morning….. …..some weather changes came through in the night….. …..and it made things cold…(well…cold for Florida)…it was a Snap!….. …..A Genuine Cold Snap!….. It was even colder this morning…we were in the 40’s F….. …..my Raynaud’s Syndrome kicked into gear in my hands….. …..(What’s Raynaud’s Syndrome?)…(I prefer to call it “cadaver-fingers”)….. I ignore it…I think it’s connected with my fibromyalgia….. …..Whatever….. But…with a Cold Snap…there’s…

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~~~July Fourth~~~

~~~July Fourth~~~

**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** *************Happy Fourth of July!************* Hopefully it will be with family….. Hopefully it will be a fun day…full of good food…and friends….. It’ll be HOT here…but it usually is…..   We’re doing the traditional summer celebration with barbecued ribs and beans and corn on the cob….. …..it never gets old….. There’ll be firecrackers and fireworks displays….. …..the southern-pyromaniac-Bubba’s will be out in droves….. …..our street always wafts with smoke afterwards and that wonderful smell…

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Cleaning the Fireplace

Cleaning the Fireplace

*******Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel******* I’ve officially given up on a roaring fire for the next few months….. …..or more….. It’s hard feeling in the mood for a roasty/toasty fire when it’s in the 90’s or above ….. Before cleaning out the ashes for the coming summer….. …..I was able to eke in a couple small morning fires recently this last week….. It actually got down to 58F degrees one night….. …..my rule is……..

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~~~I Love My Fireplace~~~

~~~I Love My Fireplace~~~

The weather dropped from eighty degrees to thirty degrees in only twenty-four hours….. …..gotta love Florida….. …..apparently there was a frost….. …..I missed it…..(my feed guy told me)….. I am glad it’s finally cool enough to actually enjoy riding and not continually worrying that my horse is going to melt under me….. It seems like everyone has sprouted a winter coat overnight….. …..even Anja…..(again)….. …..who I have body-clipped once this fall already….. …..but she’s a Norwegian Wooly Mammoth Fjord Horse…

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~~~Aromatherapy~~~

~~~Aromatherapy~~~

This is going to be a short post… I just wanted to share this with you… I’m a product of the sixties and seventies…..so of course…..I’m into incense… …..(but I don’t like patchouli…..which is one of those obligatory scents from my era)….. I just recently got this new/cool incense burner… I didn’t expect it to work for me like it did in the photos… But it did…..! (except for when the air conditioner turns on and the vents start blowing)…

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To And Froe…….

To And Froe…….

I want one of these things… *****A Froe***** Why won’t my computer let me type this word? It’s a real word… *****Froe Definition***** It has a real definition… Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe.  Froe… …..I want one. …….we’ve previously established that I am a not-so-latent pyromaniac… …….I just like fires and smoke…….I don’t like to burn important things…….except for maybe my fingers & (on occasion) my eyebrows… I currently smell like smoke from working with my bees this…

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Boxing Day

Boxing Day

Prior to hanging around my own personal Brit husband………………I knew nothing of Boxing Day.  It wasn’t a named day in rural Ohio.   We’ve discovered over the years that even though we are both from English speaking countries, there are oceans (the Atlantic to be specific) of differences between us. There’s a world of differences in the traditions, the vocabulary, the expectations, a whole list of differences……………..and the food.  I love the food.  (But not the gray, boiled meat.)  Remember,…

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It’s Pyro-Technic-Time!!!

It’s Pyro-Technic-Time!!!

  It’s time for Florida’s three days of cold.  I have seven cords of wood. I’m ready. I spent a day with the front-end-loader picking up and stacking firewood.  I’ve knocked off carpenter ants, red ants, worms, chameleons that aren’t chameleons (but I can’t remember what they are actually called).  I wore gloves and boots and the weather was cool-ish, so the likely-hood of highly interactive, poisonous snakes was on the low side.  But I kept my one-good-eye peeled for…

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