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Who didn't pay the heating bill?...

15 years ago

Brrrr....dang it's cold AGAIN!

Yesterday was a slice of heaven...or perhaps, I hallucinated it?....

Off to buy firewood for hopefully the LAST time!

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tomncath
15 years ago
Hi Stpete,

Where can you get firewood now? I'm down to two logs so it doesn't look like we'll be having a fire tonight :-(
tomkaren
15 years ago
Hopefully this will be the last of this cold year, I'm loosing a lot of plants. Hopefully the perrenials will all come back. My orchids are suffering from being in the dry indoors.

Sure wish we could heat with firewood but no fireplace nor can't even burn outside - burn ban.

(We'll pay the heating bill too.)
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SaintPFLA
Original Author
15 years ago
Did I see right? It's supposed to be 37 one night this week? Sheesh!

I agree...some of my plants are just bouncing back from the last cold front.

TomNCath: I usually buy my firewood at the family owned garden center on Hanies Rd. and 16th St. I forget the name, but it's right across from the Haines Rd. Vet Clinic. It's pretty reasonably priced too.

Today, instead of doing that...I stupidly went to Publix thinking I could buy dinner plus firewood. They had nothing..not even fire-starter logs, so no fire for me tonight. :(
auntiejan
15 years ago
I am so ready for spring to be here. It is 40Â° this morning, we can safely say March came in like a lion! I'm way ready for the lamb-like stuff. Brrr!
laura1
15 years ago
With a winter like we've had I was expecting more cold weather. It won't freeze here but I hauled my orchids in...hopefully for the last time.
SaintPFLA
Original Author
15 years ago
I seem to recall a similar colder than normal winter around 10 years ago.

With all my complaints of "Brrrr!", it's still a nice break from a constant 90 degrees!

Floridians just want perfect weather 24/7....we're so spoiled. ;-)

I had my reality check when I saw New England is receiving a whole bunch of snow...my former home. I could still live there so I'll stop whinning about 50 degrees! :)
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15 years ago
My friend in NE PA took a personal day and had her bus ticket and ticket to the Philly flower show and then it snowed! My friend in NY called to say she was off because of snow! I didn't get any sympathy from them when I said it was only going to be 60 today!

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puglvr1
15 years ago
Woke up to light frost on my roof, car, lawn and on top of the frost covers I had on my Mango trees...it was 36Â° at 6:00 this morning. I guess frost can occure even w/out being 32Â°?

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jonnys
15 years ago
Hopefully last night and tonight will be the last cold nights, as Im tired of covering stuff up and bringing things in!
flyingfish2
15 years ago
Me too, covering and uncovering, but I've done it so many times now , I'm not about to stop. Have been cutting the dead stuff out of my 2 25 tall mango trees, Surprising amount of small fruit about the size of a peanut inside of outer limbs. Will shoot it a shot of copper and chelate it shortly. Standing on the next to top rung of a 24 ft ladder leaned into the tree with the wind rocking it around is kinda spooky for a ol'fart (72).

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tomncath
15 years ago
Native Floridian here, grew up in a family of bird hurters, don't shoot me, it's all behind me now. I remember many years of heading into the central Florida woods during the spring gobbler turkey hunt and dealing with frost right into the last week of March.

Gobble, gobble, gobble...that'll be starting this weekend but I'd rather head out with a camera, not a gun, AND after sunup and the frost melts ;-)
flyingfish2
15 years ago
Hey Tom, if you are good enough hunter to bag a gobbler, I'm going to applaud you , not shoot you :>)

bernie
tomncath
15 years ago
Hi Bernie,

I bagged more than my fair share of gobblers. All you have to do is wait until the Yahoo's leave the woods and the birds settle down. I bagged my last gobbler on the last day of the season at approximately noon in 1988. I was napping with my head propped on a pine tree when a bird landed on my boot and woke me up. It then proceeded to land on my chest and start pecking at one of the camo buttons on my shirt, five minutes later a Jake strolls down the jeep trail and the rest is history...true story.

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tomncath
15 years ago
Sorry Stpete, lost my head and stepped on your thread :-(
gatormomx2
15 years ago
Firewood ?? You are actually paying good money for firewood ?
OMG ! We have acres and acres of firewood . Oak and cherry .
If you come to the DeLand meet I will bring you some .
Gardencpa has some too .
Let us know and you can take some home with you .
Nothing wrong with a fire in April or May .
SaintPFLA
Original Author
15 years ago
TomNCath: no worries...I know who take with me if I'm ever lost in the woods. At least we'll be able to eat!

GatorMom...that's a very generous offer. Do you sell it? How did you end up with so much firewood?
gatormomx2
15 years ago
Goodness NO , we don't sell it .
Combo of lots of land , hurricanes , drought , disease and lightning strikes equals many dead trees . Lost two huge live oaks recently . They just stand out in the pastures slowly falling down a limb at a time .
We do not cut it up so this is not the pretty stuff you see for sale .
You gotta work for that fire ! Got a chainsaw ?
If I can , I'll bring some to the swap .
Ton of work to load a trailer but nice to have the pastures cleared .
You can take the large pieces away and cut them at home
or use the smaller branches that are great for firepits .

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