blog post Christmas

I can remember  Christmas when I woke-up and seen a 'ping pong table' sitting right there in the living room!.. Then one Christmas I had a '10 speed bike' not to mention all the gifts on the floor!!...Every Christmas Eve,my Dad would take us all out around the  neighborhood to see all the lights!..One year we went out,and I was in the back seat with my dog and cat,well the cat with it's 9 lives I guess felt like walking AROUND the out-side of the car, going out the back window around in the front,never missing a step!...Well,the dog seen this and must've thought well, "I can do this" so then he tried it to,well he got both front paws on the door up by the car door-lock and the back two on the arm rest, wellll, in short, we had to stop the car,so I could open-up and let him get back in!!...(oh yes, the car was moving,we were probably going like 10mph)

blog post Thanksgiving

It's Thanksgiving,that time of year when Family and friends get together to watch the 'Thanksgiving Day Parade'then sit down to a turkey dinner or ham or whatever it may be!...Having Thanksgiving in the south is alittle different than having Thanksgiving up north (and when I say south I mean Florida and when I say north I mean anywhere that's north of Florida!!...)First , Turkey day in Fl.(or in the south) is warm,not hot,not cold but warm and all the leaves on the trees are green (except for the 2 or 3 that are yellow!..)Now Thanksgiving up north is, more fitting I think...First, it's cool, not hot not cold but comfortable (cool), either the leaves are turning all different colors or they are falling...Some people just choose to get up at 4 or  5 in the morning and start cooking turkey, and others may choose to go and eat out (Golden Coral , Denny's , Applebees)...However and wherever you have it, try and make it a good one!!...

blog post Halloween

Every Halloween, we really don't have anybody come around, I suppose that's cause we don't live in a neighborhood that's inhabited  by kids!..(which is fine by me) Now when I was a kid myself, maybe 9-10 and into my early teens, I did my share of trick-or-treating...I would go out with Fam. or neighbors...One night, a friend  of my neighbor (all 3 of us went to the same school) made a Haunted House in the lot along side his house...So we both took the  walk through, through the cobwebs, around the piles of rabbit droppings (he had afew rabbits) and just as we were about to exit the haunted house, this guy jumps out from behind some bushes, scared the $@!T out of both of us, before I even did anything, I gave'em a swift backhand !!...I remember later in years, ohh 17-18 I guess, I through, like 50 lb. test fishing line, up over a branch, tie a ghost on the end, then pull it up, then whoever would stop under it (most of the time, it was a parent) I'd lower it right next to them !!...(ahhh, what ever happened to those days)

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Well,it's almost Halloween time then it'll be Thanksgiving and before you know it.Christmas, then another year would have gone by!..Just a few days ago we had a category 4 hurricane...A category 4 hurricane,well they pack quite a punch!..Here's my ranking system: Category 1=bad...Category 2=pretty bad...Category 3=awful...Category 4=packs quite a punch...Category 5=packs a wallop...
Right after the hurricane,we started to cool down some....The temps stayed in the upper 70's lower 80 degree range during the day...We haven't been using the air as much,hasn't been as humid out...Now I just have to focus on Christmas!!...

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Well,just sitting here watching the rain come down,turned around looked at the temp.reading and it reads 75,but I expect that it will go back up just as soon as it stops raining (maybe) but for now it feels comfortable,that was the day before yesterday,August 29...Today,August 31,well woke up to another day here in Melbourne...Nicer,we just now put the air on...We usually put it on around 10-ish,but I guess it's getting to be that time of year when the temps. start fluctuating ...There is a Tropical Depression out in the Gulf of Mexico headed towards Northwest Fla.They predict it to become a hurricane by the time it reaches land!..Atleast we don't have to put up with them 90 degree temps...(well maybe every once in a while) Sept.3...Well the hurricane has moved on,we did get a good amount of rain fall from it but it was only a Cat.1 hurricane and it made land fall just south of Tallahassee,but we did get some wind and cooler temps. from it (low 70's during the day,about the same at night)...

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August 18,the temp.remote censor behind me reads 93...It is really too hot to do anything (atleast in my eyes it is) but that's what your dealt when you live down here...
August 19, earlier this morning,at 12:52a.m. (that's right,a.m.) I watched a rocket launch from my driveway here in Melbourne!...Nice liftoff,must've shined up half the sky,then went back in and went to bed!...Got up about 8:45,already in the upper 80's (ya know,some Floridians actually see that as cool weather!),turned on the computer and noticed that the U.S. is way ahead in the medal count,like 44 medals in all,I can not ever remember us being so far ahead !!...(summer or winter)

blog post:the 1980's

The 80's were a good time,things were simpler none of these new gadgets that are on the market now,of course some of the  people you knew back then,well,you still know now,and the same thing goes for what you did back then too...Although you may have picked up some knew things along the way,maybe learned a knew language,not because you had too but because you wanted too...Met a few new people...I remember this one restaurant not far from our house it was named 'Tiffany's' I thought it would be kinda neat to wake-up early and ride my bike there and have breakfast, (like the movie, "Breakfast at Tiffany's" lol ) but I never could get up and moving that early!...My next door neighbor moved in,well,next door to me around '78-ish,and I  moved out around 1985...We did lots of stuff...Walked up to the beach to check it out,sometimes we took the surf rods and we'd go fishing up the beach or go the other way and go fish on the pier in the river...Like I said,later in '85 we moved away up to Missouri,sure we kept in touch for some time, until  '93 I suppose...

                       Yes,the 1980's was a good time!!!

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Well the temp.thing behind me reads 92,it got up too 93 today,but there was a nice little breeze out so I went out and cleaned up the car-port!...Took me alittle over an hour,prolly lost about 3 lbs,luckily these past few months it did not go up over 95,except however for one day when it reached 100 degrees out....My neighbors just moved out a few days ago...They gave away alot of furniture,but they did rent a U-Haul trailer,but it was just big enough for a bedroom though...They left afew beds behind and they gave away alot of stuff to a thrift shop,had a truck come around and pick it up...Seen the owner next door today,went over and talked to him,told him that I'd be happy to help pick up some off the branches he has laying around,..(he was cuttin down overgrown branches and just kinda sprucing up the yard alittle)

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It's 92* as I look at my thermometer,just the  other day it said 100!...I couldn't believe it,I have the sensor hanging in some bushes.not to shaded and not to open,so at no time during the day can the direct sunlight get to it (except maybe early in the morning when I'm not up yet)...Haven't been going anywhere because it's been so hot,ya walk 10 ft. down the driveway and your sweatin bullets...Had a pretty nice 4th of July,went over to some friends house,had some hamburgers and hot dogs,only thing though is,well,all the time I was growing up,people would maybe shoot fireworks off and maybe stop on the 5th or even the 6th,last night was the 10 and people are still shooting these things off(which is fine with me)!...

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(6/21/2016)86 degrees here,well I suppose that's better than 90,but then again it's 12:oo in the afternoon!...I have one of those remote thermometer,the kind that you can buy from a 'Bass Pro Shop'or 'Dick's Sporting Goods'or I'm sure just about any sporting goods store...Just a few days ago the cable company shut off our cable package so we had no phone,internet or t.v. but that's fine cause we are going with another company!...(6/22/2016)Well today we got our internet and the telephone hooked up!...(whewwww)It's nice to breath again,a few days ago we got cable!...Now we have to give our close friends and Fam.the new #,luckily it's not that many people...

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6/12/16
 Today we all went fishing,we went to a place called,"Castaways Point Park"...Very nice,historical park,long boardwalk,picnic tables and benches and info.along the walk...Just a nice place to spend the day!!...
6/13/16
 Today is my Mom's Birthday!!...First we all took a ride and sat down by the water,not the same place as yesterday,this was another place.Just off the Ave.where all the shops are,you can sit by the water,where the river meets the fresh water of "Crane Creek"...We saw otters/schools of catfish and lots of pigions!...(It was the'Crane Creek Promonade')...We stayed for about an hour then went back to the house,I guess about 5:30 we ordered Chinese,a friend of ours came over...We all had a pretty good day!..