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Well for the first time in a while I have been too busy to write. We just moved into a big two story house bordered on three sides by State Park forest. So it has been lifting things which I have no business lifting in my post op condition, tending baby chicks, transplanting my garden, tending 500 seedlings, cooking, unpacking, and entertaining.
But it is great fun. Coupled with the beautiful Florida Spring and it is as close to perfect as I can imagine. I took the kayak out this morning and between paddle length alligtor and turtle encounters and nearly being tipped by a very large manatee and her calf, I came up with a fantastic story idea. So I guess I better cut the honeymoon short and get back to work.
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you better watch it with those manatees. On a kayak you could be swamped!
Glad to hear you're well enough to be doing all these things. Be careful! And tend those seedlings for the rest of us who are still just barely above freezing (and expect to spend many more days below freezing before we wrench ourselves free of Old Man Winter. My kids keep asking when Spring is, and I keep deferring because around here the first day of spring comes a good 5 or 6 weeks BEFORE the last hard frost. Pathetic.)
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We could likely get another frost or two, but I'll take care of them. I just like to get started before the bugs wake up.
It was funny. I saw the calf first on the right and as I approached the mother was comming from behind me and to the left and lifted the back of my kayak. It scared me at first. I instantly thought gator because I had seen so many today.
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I feel for those with hard winters. But I envy the excitement you feel when you first see the buds and green blooming. Mild winters are pretty boring.
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Cool on the manatee encounter. They are one of those "so ugly they're cute" things about nature. At least I've seen one in an aquarium.
I don't envy you the humidity, Scott.
And around here, Spring is an outrageous tease. Things start to get nice and then it snows again, or just gets cold and rainy. When it finally, really warms up, it's not Spring any more--it's Summer.
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Well, when you buy a house, in a short time, you find yourself worrying about things that, before you bought it, you wouldn't have believed possible. Mortgage payments you expect, but you can't appreciate the weight it puts on you. Everything the landlord used to do for you is now your responsibility. Wait till you have to replace the roof in ten-years-or-less...
quote:Of course at the end of it you've got a house..
Silly man, he's got a house now.
The best advice I can give to new home owner is to not let anyone (wife, kids, family, buddies, yourself) turn it into a storagae unit. It is a slippery slope that starts out innocently. Put some extra furniture in the spare room, stack some boxes in it, put thing you plan on looking at later in it, then one day BLAM!, your navigating rabbit paths through mountains of junk. Then your sixty, sleeping in the bathtub because its the only place you can lie down.
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With a house you've got property, and with property, you can get credit...real credit, not that plastic-money-credit-card scam...and with that, you can secure your life for the rest of your life...
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Manatees aren't ugly when you see them in the wild, KDW. They're fascinating. During one of my visits to a Florida spring, a manatee family swam into the human swimming area, so everyone had to leave the water. There was silence while all the people onshore watched the manatees eat. It was surreal.
Bent Tree, congrats on the new house. My husband and I are looking for our first. Be careful with lifting, okay?
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Yeah, I know they aren't ugly. The one I saw in the aquarium was rather cool. I'd love to see them in the wild.
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