This year only 2 months. Weird weather this year
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Florida is great for the months of Jan, Feb., & March as far as i'm concerned. Not really to hot or humid there at that time but it's freeze your a** off here in Maine.
I love all the months here except the end of Jan., Feb, and March., by that time im sick of the snow wind and cold. I could never be in Florida for Christmas....wouldn't seem right.
Usually the better months for us is from Oct to Jan. Coldest months are Jan and Feb.
March and may are usually nice. But I am in upper Florida or as some say Southern Ga. LOL
I have gone swimming in the ocean around Christmas but then I have nearly froze my you know what off around Christmas. So you never know down here.
Coldest months are Jan & Feb. here too which is why i'll take your 'cold' temps over mine any day!!!!! lol
Also, my DH thinks any thing over 70-75 is HOT!
This is what you see when you look out the window in Jan./Feb.
BURRR! He sure would not like our summers. Upper 90 with 100% humidity!!!!!!
And that's a noon shot, right Celeste?!!
lol nope..about 7am on a Dec. or Jan. morning.
I'm usually never ready for January or February temperatures, but I get antsy around March and start looking for the buds on the trees. Usually if I find buds in March, then we are in for quite an ice storm!
Things down here start coming out at the end of Jan. Good old maple trees.
We went to FL once for Christmas when I was in 6th grade, man was I mad. It ended being the coldest weather in I don't know how long, we didn't have our winter stuff with us and we froze our butts off, I ended up with strep throat, what a horrible Christmas vaca that was.
that christmas in the south we never know what kind of weather we will have.. and I think I know which one you are talking about. When every thing froze and we had Ice on every thing and people wrecking there cars becouse they did not know how to drive on ice.
It was 1981
Sounds right. My old memory is shot. but I remember another Christmas that was colder than a well diggers be hind. I was on a Christmas bird count. The next years bird count was just the opponent. So warm the skeeters where out. Big ones-so big that they looked like small birds when you saw them from the corner of your eyes. Infact one of them bite me through my snake boots.
Good grief, snake boots? Geez...I'd die in Florida because we just don't have to worry about those things here in Maine.
The snakes or the skeeters? Most snakes will leave you alone unless you step on them. I never saw a snake when I had the boots on. LOL they where heavy as lead, probable make enough noise to scare them away.
Snakes, we have our fair share of skeeters now i'll tell ya! Haven't you ever heard that Maine changed their State bird to a Blackfly. They get so big here they can pick up small dogs and carry them away!! lol
Yikes!!!
I was ravaged by black flies in Lake Placid. Ruined my vacation.
Never meet your blackflies when I was up there. But our skeeters can bite through 6 layers of leather. And are so large they have gun sights and landing gear. (It was on the airport down in St Augustine.)
I don't want to start on the NYC rats...
Please don't I have heard they you could put saddles on those things and ride them home.
Wait that sounds like our roaches.
Yes, I've seen those palmetto bugs!
I was almost 30 before I ever saw a roach///everybody teased me because I didn't know what it was.
You should have seen the reaction of some of my bosses that where transferred into Florida. I remember one calling me into his office. He was frozen in his chair and there was a 6 in long walking stick insect a couple of feet form him. I was nice and did not laugh as I herded in onto a piece of paper and took it out side.
That would be me. lol
I offered to go to help 'stomp' snakes in the south after a bad storm awhile back. They had moved into the yard when the water had risen. Then I found out that they were water moccasins :O Fortunately the DGer was a southerner and knew her snakes. Clean up waited til the snakes felt like moving away on their own. Of course I would have been out there with a broom: 'Shoo little snake. Shoo little snake."
Stick insects are harmless just bit.
One of my young and dumb bosses kept feeding the gator that was in the pond. I kept tailing him that that gator was going to try to get him. But did he believe me..... no. One day he took a danish to go feed his pet gator. I told him once more that one day that gator was going to be waiting on the bank for him. A few minutes later he came in white as a sheet. I laughed and asked "he tried to get you? He just nodded. He never tried to feed it again.
What flavor danish???
the water moccasin is the wrong snake to try that with. They always get up on the wrong side of the bed. Bad temper, nasty nature.
Cherry, I guess the gator wanted cheese.
Multi-grain. I've heard gators are into natural foods.
The ones around here are into junk food. Mashmellows, sandwiches and tourists
'O look honey. Go stand by the gator so I can take your pic'
They do it. Up at the Okefenokee swamp there was a giant gator that sleep on the bank and the ding bats would sit on it. thankfully they kept it so well feed that it was not interested in eating them.
My grandparents lived in a retirement village in FL in the 70's and their pond had a gator, grandpa always joked he'd beat 'em off with his cane if they ever came after him.
I agree about the chiggers or red bugs, add poison ivy in there too.
I used to eat them
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I am so entranced with all the twists and turns this thread takes. And all that we learn around each 'corner'!