Moving to Florida.

[Ida_Mann]

Florida is fantastic! Just got here and love it already. Now this is a state that knows how to live!! Beautiful sunny days and warm balmy evenings. What a place! Watched the sunset from a park lying on a blanket. It was beautiful. I've finally found my home. I love it here. 

May 14th: Really heating up. Got to 89 today. Not a problem, live in an air- conditioned home, drive an air-conditioned car. What a pleasure to see the sun every day like this. I'm turning into a real sun worshipper. 

June 5th: Had the backyard landscaped with tropical plants today. Lots of palms and rocks. What a breeze to maintain. No more mowing for me. NO MORE SHOVELING SNOW EITHER! Another scorcher today, but I love it here.

July 1st: The temperature hasn't been below 90 all week, not even at night. Where are those ocean breezes we heard about, still seems hot.  Getting used to it will take a while, I guess. I sure miss my LP collection, though. I'll have to remember not to leave anything made out of plastic in my car. Got one of those fuzzy steering wheel covers, Cheaper than the burn ointment for my hands. I always wondered what burnt flesh smelled like.

July 15th: Fell asleep by the pool. (Got 3rd degree burns over 60% of my body.) Missed two days of work, what a dumb thing to do. I learned my lesson though: got to respect the ol' sun in a climate like this.

July 20th: I miss our cat, Tabby. He snuck into the car when I left this morning. By the time I got out to the hot car for lunch, he'd swollen up to the size of a shopping bag and just as I opened the door he exploded all over $2,000 worth of leather upholstery. I told the kids he ran away. The car now smells like Kibbles and s**t. No more pets in this heat!

July 25th: Ocean breezes, huh. Hot is hot!! The home air conditioner is on the fritz and AC repairman charged $200 just to drive by and tell me he needed to order parts. Only hope for a break in the heat would be a hurricane.

July 30th: Been sleeping outside by the pool for three nights now. Swatting the swamp mosquitoes that are as big as B-52's. $1,500 in darn house payments and we can't even go inside. Why did I ever come here?

Aug 4th: 100 degrees. Finally got the air conditioner fixed today. It cost $500 and gets the temperature down to about 90. The electric bill is almost as much as the house payment. And two old lady drivers almost ran me off the road. I hate this state.

Aug 8th: If another wise jerk cracks, "Hot enough for you today?" I'm going to tear his head off. Dang heat! By the time I get to work, the radiator is boiling over, my clothes are soaking wet, and I smell like roasted Garfield!!

Aug 10th: The weather report might as well be a dang recording: Hot and sunny. It's been too hot two #@*& months and the weatherman says it might really warm up next week. And who came up with the statement "it may be hot, but at least you don't have to shovel it" should die from heat exhaustion. Doesn't it ever rain in this God-forsaken place??

Aug 14th: Welcome to Hell!!! Temperature got to 102 today. Forgot to crack the window and blew the windshield out of the Lincoln. The installer came to fix it and said, "Hot enough for you today?" My wife had to spend the $1,500 house payment to bail me out of jail.

Aug 30th: Worst day of the summer. I'm not leaving the house. The monsoon rains finally came and all they did is to make it muggier than hell and drove the roaches out of the ground. I wasn't aware they could fly! The Lincoln is now floating somewhere in the Gulf with its new $500 windshield.

That does it, we're moving back to New York where all you have to worry about is getting mugged, I hope this state breaks off and floats to Cuba.


Signed, Some yankee

[gery350]

yeah i'm feeling like that right about now. when the heck is december comin.

[TRX350_On_The_Rack]

True, but funny

[Ida_Mann]

yeah i'm feeling like that right about now. when the heck is december comin.

you waiting for it to get back down in the 80's ;-)

Id@

[Mrs.Nightbreed]

But you know, for us lifers, it grows on you. 












um.....yeah (how much longer until 85 degrees  )

[gery350]

i'm waiting to be able to go  riding without bbq'ing my @ss or passing out from the heat. 

[Honda328i]

I know, one Camelback is not enough.  Guess I can strap one on the front and one on the back.  Better yet, mount a tank on the quad.

Ida, you selling the rack off your 400?   

[Honda328i]

But you know, for us lifers, it grows on you. 

Speaking of "growing on you" how come everything in Florida grows mold and milldew in a matter of seconds    I always tell my wife: "don't leave anything outside or on the back porch".  Without fail, it is always black and smelly next time we find it.

[TRX350_On_The_Rack]

But you know, for us lifers, it grows on you. 

Speaking of "growing on you" how come everything in Florida grows mold and milldew in a matter of seconds    I always tell my wife: "don't leave anything outside or on the back porch".  Without fail, it is always black and smelly next time we find it.

Because we live in the Tropics. Can you say Humidity?

[bigscrub79]

i love the heat but i wish it would cool down just a bit.

[yunt2ride]

Well you know what they say.


The further south you go, the more north you get. I'm gonna have to move a little north if I still want to stay a southerner. HEHE

[sct450]

i work in construction so i'm in the heat every day.the job i've been doing recently there are 2 tile guys that complain about the heat everyday you would think we get the picture by now we work in the same heat as they do