Friday, August 19, 2011

Rumbling and tumbling and scary noises all around but so far so good!

As I write tonight a storm appears to be eminent and so I will try to hurry with my thought processes.
The length of time one lives in an area of the world should be known as their home, why after a few decades and a half they could even be considered nearly natives, huh?
But here in Florida it’s definitely not the case as it is all over the world.
Today was our twenty-fifth anniversary of our moving to the Sunshine State, yes, Florida!
Can a state embarrass you?
Sure by its reputation of handling its public image, from voting to stupid criminals, etc making the national news, but and there is a BIG BUT, we originated out of good ole New Jersey and these days what can I say about the TV show Jersey Shore, which just so happens to be the last place that we lived that we moved to Florida from way back on August 19.1986!
But sure we were proud of where we came from, after all we had great schools of higher education such as Princeton and Rutgers to name just a few. Edison and Einstein were important figures who started their inventions there. And an enormous reputation for producing many other show biz people who came from there such as Bon Jovi, John Travolta, Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen and many, many more. I could go on for hours. Our topography was not unlike a miniature of California’s, with the sea shore and mountains, rivers, streams, you name we had it all…but we also had the Pine Barrens and the so-called ‘Mob’, that used to bury the people they wanted to make, ‘disappear’, hmm…
While our chosen state has one of the, or I should say most beautiful beach in our country, Siesta Key, just about forty-five minutes north of us on our luxurious Gulf of Mexico! We have Daytona for the races and wild drive on beach of the Atlantic, the Space Coast and the Disney World and Busch Gardens etc and let’s not forget the Keys with the most famous writers’ key of all, KEY WEST, where Hemingway made his home.
Although, in recent years we have to lay claim to many others such as Stephen King, Robin Cook, James W. Hall, Randy Wayne White and more than I can think of past or present found our state to create somewhat of a muse of sorts in their inspirations for their writings, for that I am very sure… with our incredible waterscape views being a peninsula, similar in shape to Italy, and perhaps that is why we have a few cities named for theirs, such as Venice and Naples. I would be amiss not to mention the Cuban influence in Miami, a Spanish flair… but we also have the oldest city in America our own St. Augustine!

And so I bet you are proud too of where you live and sometimes you want to hide with the embarrassing things that make the airwaves too, hmm?
But let’s face it is a choice one makes in life and remember unlike family you can change it if it gets too difficult to accept, right?
But warts and all we love our lives here and interestingly enough our adult sons chose to live here too! Unfortunately quite a distance away from us but still in FLORIDA and so I suppose the initial choice way back when was a good idea for all of us…

All in all it has been an amazing 25 and we are looking forward to 25 more!
On that note of enjoying where you live, let me know how long you have been living in your home state and why you chose it?

Now allow me to be the first to ask you to have a very happy good night and to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages and we will too!

And next time please be here or be square, ya hear?

PS the noise has subsided, still no rain, the same thought as barking dogs don’t bite; or some such idiom?

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