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Christmas, Day Seven

Written by Judy on 12/31/2018 — Leave a Comment

….or On the Seventh Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me: a Beverage Dispensary.   Down at Seaside Villa, out back in the man cave: Kenneth: Hey there Lan, I heard you made a fabulous bar out of the new man-cave. Lancelot: Sure did Kenneth, sure did. Kenneth: Give it a proper name? […]

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Christmas, Day Six

Written by Judy on 12/30/2018 — Leave a Comment

…or On the Sixth Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me: a Brewery Over at the Trailer Park Lannie: Get yerself over here Sammy, and bring lots of beer nuts and chips. And maybe a pickled egg or two. Lannie: I wonder why they call it a “still” when that hooch is running […]

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Christmas, Day Five

Written by Judy on 12/29/2018 — Leave a Comment

..or On the Fifth Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me: Fire   Down at the Trailer Park: Joodles: Hey Jodie, ya gotta come over and check out the new patio. The glass she-shed? Yeah well, y’all familiar with the old saying “a gal who lives in a glass house shouldn’t throw stones”? […]

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Christmas, Day Four

Written by Judy on 12/28/2018 — Leave a Comment

..or On the Fourth Day of Christmas, My True Love Gave to Me: Running Water. Over at the Trailer Park: Joodles: Done diggin’. Lannie: Well, ding dang doodle, let’s get’s this sucker runnin’. Meanwhile over at Seaside Villa: Judith: That’s the last bit dug, dear. Lancelot: All right – let’s give it some juice. Lancelot: […]

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Christmas, Day Three

Written by Judy on 12/28/2018 — Leave a Comment

..or On the Third Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me: a deer little gift. Over at the Trailer Park: Lannie: What’s that you got there? Joodles: Deer head for yer man cave. Lannie: Whur’d ya git it? Joodles: Road kill. I decorated it up right nice and Christmassy. I made a bunch. […]

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Christmas, Day Two

Written by Judy on 12/26/2018 — Leave a Comment

…or On The Second Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me: man-cave/she-shed lights. Down at Florida Seaside Villa things were brightening up: Lancelot: Not bad. Not bad at all. Shouldn’t add too much to the power bill, should it Judith. Judith? Juuu-dith”  Judith: Aaah. That man-cave was the best idea I’ve had in […]

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Christmas, Day One

Written by Judy on 12/25/2018 — Leave a Comment

…or On The First Day of Christmas My True Love Gave to Me…..a man-cave. Over at the Trailer Park “Oh yeah, most awesomest Christmas ever Sammy.” “I got me a man cave.” “Oh yeeeah , Tammy, it’s awesome. I got an totally spectacular she-shed.” Meanwhile over at Florida Seaside Villa: “Well Samuel, I would have […]

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A Visitor

Written by Judy on 12/10/2018 — Leave a Comment

….or Gopherus Polyphemus returns. Yep, he’s back.  Or, to be more accurate, still here. I’m the one who is back. At least I think he is a he if my internet-based analysis is correct. He’s pretty old too given his size and the state of his carapace. Aw shucks, I’m just showing off now – […]

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North

Written by Judy on 04/29/2017 — Leave a Comment

….or We Spread Our Tiny Wings and Flew How, you might ask, did we know it was time to head north? Well the signs were all there: the lavender was harvested, It was exceptionally dry and the trails were too sandy to be fun for biking any more. Danged sand got in and on everything. […]

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Today’s Costume: Biker

Written by Judy on 04/04/2017 — Leave a Comment

…..NO, no, not that kind of biker!  Bicycler. Our area of Florida has some real nice biking trails; paved, no hills to speak of, not overly crowded. But my favourite trail is an unpaved seven mile loop through Crystal River State Park. I always see critters there – wild turkeys, wild hog, armadillos, raccoons. Thankfully […]

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