I opened the door last evening, and breathed. I moved out, and breathed some more.

CoolNot cold yet, even by Florida standards, although I hope that's coming - the few days of genuine Florida chill and even occasional frost are just enough to remind me that winter still arrives in the rest of the world and that my cats need to stay warm, like, ( Read more... )

....ordinarily this would be the time where I would put up something amusing about Fringe. and The Greatest Show on Earth. But ( Read more... )

So a couple of weeks ago I found myself in an email conversation about the Donner Party - I find myself in all kinds of conversations - and in the course of this, I realized that, outside of the cautionary tale told in some junior high class or other and ghost stories told at camp that claimed that if you spent the night in Donner Pass all of the ( Read more... )

This is what's going on in Queensland, Australia.

The Queensland government is accepting donations here.

As they say ( Read more... )

So we did not actually get any of the fabled snow here, instead getting rather less pretty sleet and freezing rain. (Which, for the record, not exactly usual for this area either.) Apparently, our neighbors over in Clermont, and just south of State Road 50, and north of the lake, did get snow, but the lake kept us warmer, and yuckier. And still ( Read more... )

I can't remember if I've linked to this before, so here it is, possibly again, Geoffrey Chaucer Has A Blog, partly because I insist on linking to anything that correctly calls John Gower out as a wanker, partly because this is yet another marvelous example of What the Internet can bring us, and partly because this is, as far as I know, the sole ( Read more... )

Apparently as a response to the declining economy, Florida has decided to provide free sauna services to anyone stepping outside today. The weather report keeps cruelly hinting at later rainstorms to cool the place down, but as so often happens, the weather report is currently lying.

Just as an addendum to my last post: Winter Garden has received 9.76 inches of rain since Monday...and it's still pouring.

Ah, Florida, where one week you're braced for UNSTOPPABLE WILDFIRES and the next week merrily flooding.

....because the thermometer outside is claiming that it's 34 degrees out (about half a degree for you Celsius folks) and we're expected to drop down into the 20s tonight (below freezing, for you Celsius folks). Does this sound like Florida to you? No, no it does not ( Read more... )