The Price One Pays
Florida living in the winter is absolutely like paradise. All the reptiles snooze through winter, that's really nice.But you pay the price when it is not winter here, it is a taste of hellish HOT, not that it isn't hot anywhere else but here it is hot, sticky, wet and yicky then add the reptiles who like that weather.
Now add the damn hurricanes that like to visit often leaving us without power for days on end.
Yep that's the price one pays to live in a winter paradise. My morning walks with Lucy, my little gator bait makes me be a very alert person now. I walk along the canal watching for those damn gators, I'm so alert to the canal I forget to watch straight in front of me. I caught myself doing that so now I'm even more alert to look straight ahead first then monitor the canal as I walk. I do get to see other less disturbing wild life like turtles and birds, the bugs are so LOUD it's like walking in a scary movie.
Oh the price we pay.
Comments (32)
'Fess up, Fay.
'You don't work for the Florida Department of Tourism.
Right
My suggestion is to do what I do.
Spend the winter in Florida and the rest of the year elsewhere in cooler locations.
You are free to "roam the planet".
Ummm....Fay?
Do you get seasick? If so, how bad?
How 'bout the li'l shark baits? Seasick?
Errr ... I meant Gator baits, of course.
Talking to Ralph on the big white telephone
Sorry but I have a hellish phobia about snakes. Because, except you buy one in a store, there are none.
There will be soon as the pets that have been dumped /abandoned by heartless owners that don't want them anymore are now living and coming in to people's homes looking for food [not an every day occurrence but it did happen enough times for the ISPCA to appeal to people to bring their reptiles in to them if they can't keep them,as the raised temperatures in the soil [Global warming] means these creatures will live in the wild.
As for Gators... nope. I think if you are brought up in Florida and other countries where there are snakes you get used to it, know which ones are venomous and know where the Gators are but the hurricanes are pretty awful there too.
But, UNfazed, would you like to live in Ireland, so much rain, wind, misty dark grey days, hard to make plans as summer is not blue skies for 3 months, it is the odd day or two or a week of sunny weather and then rain and heavy showers.
Having said that, we don't usually get very cold Winters, or very hot Summers but I doubt you'd give up your sunny climate?
Travel planning tip for petite Irish women with a hellish phobia of snakes -
There are no venomous or massive constrictor serpents in the Bahamas
I could live in Ireland's environment in retirement with no super hot or super cold days. My heart is left in Seattle where is is misty rainy all the time, I loved it as it made for beautiful scenery.
Mic do you believe in the pythons now? I thought you were cracking jokes that they weren't in south FL? Those daggum snakes are moving north.
Come on people buy more gator and python clothing, purses and shoes. Create a demand
But what about those small sneaky ones that can in behind book cases and cushions and .... Good Blog.
I've never been in exactly the right place & time to give it a try.
From all I've heard, it does taste like
Other foods containing mercury & other such bad stuff.
True.
But python - at least those in Florida - are like waayyy off scale laced with the stuff...
Like five TIMES
One source claims it's in the league with tailings from heavy metal mining.
Seriously -
A croaked off python might literally meet the legal definition of Toxic Waste.
Hope you're enjoying your lunch!
"...in their native Southeast Asia, Burmese pythons are listed as 'near threatened', in part because of the pet trade. And the United States is a major importer, having brought in an estimated 99,000 of the animals between 1996 and 2006."
Stay safe. Take care.
This is supposed to be a strong one, but I guess you are climatized to it.
It's very sad and I don't think I could watch the film again.
As for the snake phobia, weird thing is, seriously, I would try some rattlesnake steak but not if it had the skin on it. If it was just white meat I would give it a try. Weird as that sounds.
Going now to do my Saturday weekly shop. Grey dark dank clouds outside, with quite a bit of wind, [well I do live high on the mountain even though it's all been ruined with a rash of busy roads and apartments. It's during summers like this, and even worse winters that I wonder could I live in a warmer climate and risk the wrigglies.
Great News! Here's the solution to the exotic species python problem...
The exotic cobras eat them -
Yes. REALLY!! Problem solved
And guess what?
Cobras can be found in Florida trash cans - one's own private lethally venomous python exterminator...
Can't beat that, eh?
gg might be getting used to the pythons - maybe eating rattlers, even!
Those cobras will trigger ophiophobia sure as hell.
She won't go near a trash can for weeks, I'll betcha!
Not too much summer in Ireland this year, but overall it's a climate I like.
Stay safe with your 2 little buddies UnFayzed.
The woman got eaten & the dog's fine.
Welll...like, DUH
If someone gave you a string with a chicken wing on one end & a beef roast on the other, which would YOU go for?!?!
This ain't rocket science, y'all!!
Good thinkin' Fay
You might consider bringing along another fashion accessory on your walks...