January 2009
3 posts
“A Bad Day in Paradise is Better Than The Best Day Anywhere Else!”
Winter in Florida ... yummmm!
I received a call from a delightful lady who lives in Indiana yesterday afternoon. While we were talking her husband asked what the temperature was. Initially I said that, although I didn’t know the temperature, it was quite comfortable. Then I started laughing when I realized I was outside talking on my portable phone! We were sitting in the shade (in T-shirts) in our yard here in...
November 2008
1 post
Housing Affordability Nightmare
While so much of the national news has been focusing on surplus housing, mortgage foreclosures, and all sorts of dire housing predictions, we sit here in sunny Florida and consider the lives of our “neighbors”. We may not know them, we may live hours from the communities they are in, but our hearts hurt for them. So many have come here to live out a dream turned nightmare. I guess it...
October 2008
1 post
Florida Vacation Home
Retire to Your Own Piece of Paradise! Florida Resort Living I can’t believe the “season” here in Florida has started picking up so significantly in even the past week! Each time I answer the phone, I feel as though I’m opening a present. I know it’s a gaily wrapped gift of some sort, but, until I actually tear into it, I have no idea what it may be. I’ve had...
September 2008
2 posts
Back Home in Ocala ... again.
We had to make another trip out to the Panhandle yesterday. I was amazed at how much more colorful the woods were in just the past eight days! Last week the wild fox grapevines were turning and created beautiful mottled patterns in shades of greens and golds. This week it was more that just the grapevines in transition, it was the wild cherry, the willow, the sweet gum trees! There were not...
Weather - Warm and Wonderful!
I have been lovin’ this Florida weather this week! It has been cooler and a bit less humid making it a joy to be outside most of the day. It’s important to remember this is coming from a Floridian; if you’re coming from up north y’all still be sure to pack your shorts and T-shirts! At least for me, I can already see (and smell) changes in the season. Add to that the big...
August 2008
2 posts
Retire to the Florida - the Sunshine State!
No More Snow Are you one of the thousands who, in the late summer and early fall months, start dreaming of leaving the brutal cold and retiring to Florida, the Sunshine State? We envision (and dread) the icicles hanging from the car bumper, the snow piled along the walks, the biting winds, the dangerous roadways … and we dream. We dream of basking beside the pool in the warm sunshine, of...
