Weather update: 79 degrees here, the low might hit 73. Clearwater, FL area.
Luckily, by Friday we’ll have a low of maybe 47 so we can light up the 36” copper kettle and have a fire. We live in a forest so firewood is just a collection of deadwood small to large.
Palmetto leaves are remarkably flammable - no stinking tinder and blowing on a hot spark here. Just a few dry palmetto leaves - like small palm fronds - so palmetto leaves, twigs, adding small cut branches and we have a fire, as it kicks in add the bigger stuff.
I was only a cub scout but with reading and several semesters of “Survival” classes I ain’t no country boy but I can survive.
Me? I prefer to sit in my chair on the hardtop screened-in porch, 25x30. 15’ by 15’ screening floor to ceiling, wet side fully screened, south side the same except it has the screened door. Heh.
We’ve been here 25 years. Hurricanes tend to come from the east across land or just head north to Mexico, Texas, Louisiana or north Florida. See Hurricane Florence for reference.
Which is nice because most everybody will be in shorts and a tee shirt but we’ll be warm. ;-)
Tired of snow boots, gloves, snow shovels/blowers, scraping ice off you windshield, cold coffee, etc.
Come on down to Florida - no income tax, most counties are 7% sales tax, 6 months of the year the gulf is 80 degrees plus and the beaches are scenic complete with sea shells, lots of other amenities.
We definitely need more conservatives down here!
All of my family lives in Sacramento, CA. I live in AZ with my spouse. FL too far away.
Thanks, I was in Florida in 1965 to visit relatives (since passed) in Coral Gables, them in 1966 in the Keys and again in the Keys in 71.
However, I have to keep working (landscape) else lose home and food. SS does not cover much and savings are not all that (enough for a few years but not for more than that). So I’ll have to stay here in the burrr burrr cold for now. Thanks again. Very kind of you.