Winter In Florida

While the North in general, and my peeps in BFE in particular, have been suffering a harsh winter, we in Florida have also been having our share of difficulty this season. You won't hear much about it in the press, nor will Jim Cantore station himself outside Central Avenue Oyster Bar in a hoodie revealing the harsh elements we have been slogging through. But I am here and will do their job for them since they seem to be in places like Cleveland, Chicago, Atlanta and New York City.

Here you can see the steam rising from Shawshank's geo-thermally heated pool. On particularly coolish days the question isn't surviving the water (its like a warm bath), its getting from your back door over to the pool without getting a wee bit chilled.

And look at these poor beachcombers. They have to don their winter garb, such as it is, and have to even endure gloves. At the Beach! The horror!

Shawshank walkers even have to put coats on their 5 pound Yorkies!

And these poor pedestrians! Coats, umbrellas? Its an ill wind that blows no good. At least these guys get to try on the virtually worthless winter clothes they received for Christmas. I'll be honest, we measure winter down here by weeks, not months. In fact, a week after this picture was taken of a chilly 56 degree day, it was 82 on Super Bowl Sunday. Winter's over.

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Flashback Friday

Class, Or Lack Thereof The Dwight Vice gravestone in Oquawka, Illinois. I bring this old chestnut out every so often just to remind me that class is classless. Dwight Vice was killed in his home near Oquawka in 2001. It was one of those things that can generate crime: two guys thought Dwight had a lot of money stashed at home because of his pot-selling sideline to supplement his fishing job. Not really one of those big drug deals gone-bad things. Marijuana was, according to the trial, about the only stuff Dwight sold. But these two guys barge into the house and killed Dwight and attempted to kill his 11 year old kid, Darryl, before they took off with what money they could find. His son, now 23, was stabbed in the back and left for dead. He survived and is wheelchair bound and has undergone several surgeries to repair his wounds. He will be paralyzed for life. None of this is pleasant. Reading the facts of the murder and attempted murder are most unpleasant

Summer Swim

It's Monday and the start of another work week. Except for me. I have the week off because the parents of my daycare charges are taking the week off, too. This is one of those wordless posts I love on Mondays so I can put my laziness in full view of loyal readers. These pics need no words. Why muddy the waters? They were taken at the pool at Sinkhole Estates aka Death Valley. The nice thing about this pool is it is heated in winter. If one must find positives in one's situation, I suppose that is one. But, please, no more.

Florida Air Museum - Part 3

Welcome back to a pretty neat tour of the Florida Air Museum in Lakeland Florida. There's a lot to see and a couple of the old Geezer Gold Wing guys are already sitting down instead of walking around looking at the exhibits. That's John who is wore out and making a call to his wife. In all honesty, John was pretty well bushed before the ride. He told me his daughter's family was down from one of the Carolina's with the grand kids and he must have played with them too much. He's about to take off on his own and head for home, but he's going to miss a couple of neat things out on Hangar A. But, before we walk over there, we have lots yet to see here. If you saw The Aviator with Leonardo DiCaprio playing Howard Hughes, you'll remember that he went up in a plane during the filming of one of his movies to prove a point about flying. He crashed trying to execute a roll and this is a picture of the plane he crashed. Note the propeller

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