I’ve often written about how much I love winter in Florida. I’m not a snow bunny “winter” lover up north. Seeing others wonderful photos of snow and ice is really all I need. As I’ve explained before, I do have Seasonally Affective Disorder (SAD) (For more information on SAD, click link.) and find gray skies make me sad. I fell in love with the sunny days here in Florida in my 20’s . I moved from Tennessee to Miami in mid-20’s, and it changed my life. I didn’t want to be like my mother and spend my life calling a close friend or family member all winter to say how sad I am. She’d say I don’t know why I’m sad. Life is ok but I hate looking out the window at gray clouds.
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Exploring My Neighbor
Last week I shared photos from my neighbors in Bldg. A. Today we’re looking on the other side of my building to Bldg. C. It’s not as close to my building in the layout of buildings in the complex, and I don’t really know folks there. Sad.
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A Nice Day By a Lake
This time of year here in Central Florida it is already unbearably hot and humid with a heat index in the 100’s (F). Sometimes a front moves in from the north with cooler air. Then I dance a little jig and take a walk. It doesn’t last long and doesn’t happen often in summer. I’ll take what I can get.
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A Rainy Start to the Day
Overnight a front moved in with a slight drop in temperature and moisture filled clouds. I woke up to a very cloudy sky. I watched the rain come. It rained off and on for about an hour.
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A Day of Puffy Clouds
I’d like to thank all my readers who sent messages of concern last week when the hurricane blew by Florida. I sincerely appreciate your support. As expected here in central Florida away from the coast, we had a tropical storm warning (not a hurricane warning), rain, and wind. Yes, other areas were not so lucky. Tampa had extensive flooding and property destruction.
The next day was a regular sunny day with blue skies and puffy white clouds. I hope you enjoy the beautiful day I’m sharing. I wish you all beautiful days where you live.
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A Cold Day in Lakeland, Florida
We’ve had some cold days here in central Florida as northern weather systems come south. Yes, I know by northern standards, it’s not really cold. To residents of Florida who have adapted to lots of heat, it is cold. Luckily most days we still have deep blue skies and white clouds. Right now I am recovering from an extremely hard day yesterday moving. It was filled with errors from morning ’til night. I’m in my fluffy robe, in a recliner at an Air B & B in Lakeland. I’m not really closed on either property (house nor condo) even though it seemed I signed a thousand documents yesterday. There is a form for final lender approval on buyer of my house that has not been received. Last night I heard it is hoped to be finalized by 2 this afternoon. That was the first error. I won’t go into my tale of woe any further. A truck filled to the brim with my belongings sits ready to come to Lakeland and I am paying for daily rental. My painter who was supposed to start on the condo yesterday afternoon went to his next job and will work on my unit part-time. The cleaner and handy man are waiting for word they will help tomorrow. And I sit.
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Making A Snowman in Florida
On Sunday November 17th Tampa Bay had the lowest high temperature for that date in recorded history. The high was only 53 degrees F. Now I know what you’re thinking; it sounds like a great temperature to those of you up north. It was over 20 degrees cooler than our average for this time of year. November is usually warm to hot. On the Friday before, a cold front moved into the area from up north where many folks got snow. The skies looked like snow but we got 3 to 4 days of cold rain with grey skies. Then our usual blue skies returned with mild temperatures and lows in the 40’s and 50’s. Love this kind of weather.
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