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Julie L. Cleveland

How We Celebrate Thanksgiving in Florida

11/23/2022

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Just a quick post today. Happy Thanksgiving! 

We don't have the advantage of the cold weather here in Florida to help us truly celebrate Thanksgiving, but we try. I remember needing to crack the window because the oven would fog up the house windows when we cooked the turkey. Here, we put the air on because usually November is still a warm month. 

Right now, I have a whole batch of homemade egg noodles drying on the back sunporch because the humidity here is so high most of the time, I only get a couple days to make noodles a year. They will be our Thanksgiving dinner of beef and noodles, which is a favorite, but again, not many days where we want to eat something so warm and toasty that we need to move the thermostat to 62. 

After we eat, we walk the beach because we're fat and sand is hard to walk in. We also go to the movies or bowling. The one thing we don't do is shovel snow on the walk or try to get our car out of a drift.

I want to share a photo that I took of our pine tree in the front yard. These guys came for dinner and were patiently waiting for me to serve it. 
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Happy Thanksgiving from my home to yours!
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How We Know the Snowbirds are Back

11/9/2022

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Every year, we can tell the seasons here in Florida by the color of the license plates. One of the local journalists who wrote a column for a newspaper that is now just a messy part of a conglomerate used to do license plate sightings.

He has moved on to his own publication, but I think of him every fall. This year, we’re facing a hurricane – like tomorrow – so maybe our snow birds will be a little less eager to come visit. (If you need a refresher course on how to read a hurricane map, see this blog post.)

These hurricane supplies might be a little late for the big blow tomorrow, but you could keep them on hand for the next one. Or maybe Prime will deliver in the middle of driving rain ...

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These are the ways we know the snowbirds are back:
  • The license plate bingo game is in full swing.
  • The lines are longer at the coffee shop.
  • The traffic gets a little heavier around the grocery store.
  • In the case of a hurricane, people are buying nonsensical items like all the pudding.
  • The grocery store shelves are starting to look a little sparse between stockings.
  • There are cars randomly changing lanes and then stopping in the road.
  • There are long lines at the local Mexican restaurant.
  • Horns honk. At us.
  • There are a lot of sunburned bodies milling about.
  • There are a lot of white arms and legs.

Yes, we’re seeing a smattering of Northeast license plates, and you people from Connecticut, I will remember how you beeped at me for no apparent reason while I was visiting your state last month. Expect  the honk to be returned accordingly. 
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