Recently someone accused me of panicking in getting ready for Hurricane Dorian, and after I stopped laughing, I realized they didn’t grow up in Florida and don’t know hurricanes like I know hurricanes. I mean, I’ve lived here since 1973. I’ve seen a few. What’s the deal with Hurricane Snacks? …
Do not eat all my hurricane snacks. Do not eat all my hurricane snacks. Do not eat all my hurricane snacks. Do not eat all my hurricane snacks. Do not eat all my hurricane snacks. Welcome to my pre-hurricane brain dump. So, best guess for if we lose power, will …
Some days it’s even not raining, and I can write a blog post! I know I’ve been knocking on our internet (or lack of it) lately when really I should be grateful that we have internet out here in the sticks at all… but when your job is online, and …
… does anyone know any lyrics of that song other than those?! We’ve been getting some good soakers lately. Good for the garden, good for the aquifer, good for helping to put out wildfires. I saw on the Clay County Emergency Services page yesterday that they were working on four …
I was in our driveway yesterday, heading to the post office, when something caught my eye. Something just didn’t look right…. You know how you see something all the time and somehow some time it just looks different and you can’t put your finger on it….? It took me a …
So, Tuesday night, about the time Tim and I were watching our last TV show of the evening, I was like, “Holy wow, what is that NOISE???”…. we paused the TV and listened to the longest rumble of thunder I’ve ever heard. It must have gone on straight for about …
So, Tuesday night, about the time Tim and I were watching our last TV show of the evening, I was like, “Holy crap, what is that NOISE???”…. we paused the TV and listened to the longest rumble of thunder I’ve ever heard. It must have gone on straight for about …
Most of the day yesterday I wrapped soap and watched TV while doing it, and Tim and Joe started pulling schmutz from around the yard and burning it. Tim already had a respectable burn pile going in a flat area across the driveway from the studio (where eventually he wants …
We didn’t even lose power until after the big part of the storm had passed – sure, it flickered a few times between about 1 and 4 PM, during the worst of it, but then it didn’t stay off until suddenly, right before about 7 PM, it just went off …
I feel like that giant rock monster in The Neverending Story, sitting around and waiting for The Nothing. “They look like such… good… hands…” (As an aside, I caught that a couple of months ago and unlike Labyrinth, Neverending Story really holds up on all levels. And I’m sorry, because …
It looks like I’m getting an early birthday present of a hurricane. Thanks, Mother Nature? You made me something yourself? I was going to fire the kiln Thursday, for opening on Friday, with a custom order in it to photograph and mail out… now I’m going to try to finish …
This post is brought to you by the fact that anything below 61 or over 86 and I become a raving, angry crankpot who can’t hold a thought in her head for more than about two seconds. I do not for the life of me understand people who, when you …
I think Florida needs a new State Motto. It’s been like this pretty much since early June.
I thought it was a joke when someone mentioned a tropical storm coming our way last week. After all, didn’t hurricane season just start on the 1st? How could have have a TS already, by the 3rd? Go home, Mother Nature! You’re drunk! True enough, though, we did have one, …
I think I may have mentioned that with the exception of a few days here and there, we had a really mild winter. Gainesville usually does have a few nights of sub-freezing temperatures (no, really, Northern friends, I’m not making that up!) but we really only get them for maybe …
And by “wizard” I mean “ceramic supply shop” with a side trip to see Amy and Isaac and have lunch. If Tim is really, really lucky I won’t make him take a side trip to get me a Giant Metal Chicken. Hahahhahaha. What are your Saturday plans? Have you been …
I just don’t even know what to say about this. It’s January. It’s 80 degrees. Our azaleas are blooming. I saw a ripe loquat this morning. If this is winter, I shudder to think what summer is going to be like.
The sky yesterday could make your breath catch; a brilliant bright blue with not a cloud in it, and a hint of Fall in the air. Then this morning I woke up and it’s about 39 outside, about 45 in the house, and all the cats are stuck to me …
After three solid days (and at least six inches) of rain, we went back to Chopstix earlier this week to see if there was any improvement to the water table. It was good to see, and we’re hoping another couple days of rain means it won’t all evaporate or drain …
This was just a few days ago. Compare to…
It’s like a billion degrees outside. OK, maybe just in the high 90’s. And I know I live in Florida and it should be hot but SWEET ZOMBIE JESUS IT HIT 96 ON THE FIRST DAY OF MAY! That’s too early to be peeling my skin off and diving into …
Since this is way more than 140 characters, and probably more potty-mouth than Twitter would like: To the “ladies” I saw on the news last night saying “you Floridians don’t know cold!”… Respectfully? Actually, not so respectfully at all? FUCK YOU. We DO know cold, and THAT IS WHY WE …
Another toss-up this week; can I choose all seven? I really like the one that I took of myself holding a photo of Aunt Gay and Uncle Joe; but overall I think this week has to go to the truly creepy sky that we all woke up to last week. …
