Friday, February 20, 2015

BRRRRR TOO!

Here's the proof that southwest Florida nearly froze and survived to go on another day!This indoor outdoor unit tells the highs and lows for the day as well as humidity. The bottom number is our indoor temperature and humidity, included is the time of day and date, so there you have my proof! Any-who, we are being told that all is well again, sort of with lows only going into the high forties with afternoon temps in the seventies, whew Florida weather in February, is BACK! By Sunday is still a go for that over eighty temp, hip, hip hooray! (PS for tonight's blog I just hit the lows and highs for the day on the bottom buttons, pretty precarious though I had to snap the pic fast for it wanted to change back to the current temps, and so it took a few times until I could get what I needed for this little ditty of mine for accuracy.)

Oh I almost forgot since this topic appears to be weather related once again, Robert Van Winkle, our senior meteorologist on our local NBC affiliate, hit the nail on the head the other night when he said the rain would be here by seven o'clock......... it sure was, exactly! Oh look at those humidity's, there goes many of yours' theories that Florida is always hot and sticky, hmm!

Oh and by the way by the time I got up it was already going up, it was at thirty-six degrees by then and just before our temperature stated that we are now at sixty! Easy come easy go...thank goodness!

Moving on...

Just the right briskness for Hubby to continue his beautification of our yard.
He had been playing a normal man's version of Edward Scissor hands with trimming and fertilizing all our flora in our overgrown gardens, including our hedges of Plumbagos and hibiscus as well as our bougainvilleas, Scheffleras, ficus, palms, gardenias, dracaenas, citrus etc. so today he took the twelve bags of Cyprus mulch and after he had put down the Preen for any weeds, just like I used to be able to do... it all looks just lovely!

Our time to trim/prune is fine this time of the year with most of our plants semi-dormant but not entirely, since our cold spells are quite short lived. I had inquired years ago, by examining my quite extensive gardening books and when they did not have what I needed at that time I watched local PBS garden shows.
These days since many of my books were destroyed by "the hurricane", I use the county extension people for any questions when the Internet may be too vague, rarely but it does happen. 
We are in what is called zone 10 a semi-tropical/tropical area and so our needs and plants are quite specific to that.
I know boring to many, but not to me.

Just sad that I can no longer do what I so did enjoy due to my inability to handle the extreme temperatures in either direction and endurance of finishing any outdoor project that I might want to begin, since many are quite time consuming.
So Hubby has decided to do it all instead and he has done one hell of a great job!
He actually takes pictures and brings them into me to see all that he has done...

On that note of Geez, another mini wrong turn on the happiness train, but not totally derailed, forgive anyway, and allow me to be the very first to wish all of you a very happy good night and ask you all to kindly count all your blessings and share all your overages with you know who and we will too!

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



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