Category: Hurricane
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You’ve Got Snail Mail!
Reading Time: 5 minutes When was the last time you went to the mailbox and came back clutching a personal letter from someone you value in your life? Not a greeting card with a few handwritten words to supplement the generic message some anonymous greeting card writer wrote. Not a thank you note for a… Read more
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Not Again!
Reading Time: 4 minutes Oh, the irony! The day I’m writing this (one day before publication) is the 11-month anniversary of Hurricane Ian. I haven’t written much about that because, well, who wants to rehash the difficulties and trials in life. I have a philosophy that you get a lot more of the things you… Read more
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Putting Pooped Behind Me
Reading Time: 4 minutes Randy and I spent most of the last 10 days putting our house back together after the contractor claimed they were done with water damage repairs from Hurricane Ian. The repairs started back in mid-February when they ripped out the ceiling and walls in the master bedroom, and the vanity, toilet,… Read more
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Spilling Our Guts
Reading Time: < 1 minute <Big Sigh> Interior hurricane damage repair started yesterday. The poor house. A team of mold specialists came in and just started ripping the guts out of our master bedroom wing. There wasn’t a lot of mold, but there sure was a lot of water damage to the drywall on the… Read more
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Happy Pappy’s Glowing Balls
Reading Time: 2 minutes I laugh ever time I think about Happy Pappy’s Glowing Balls. You KNOW where my mind goes! That’s why (from someone who holds a degree in Marketing) the name of this business is so brilliant. Unforgettable. Last year, Kristine and Gary gifted us with two glowing balls like those in the… Read more
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I’m Losing My Tan
Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s a first world problem, I know. It’s just that I love to hang out at the beach, and around the pool. It’s one of the main reasons we moved to Florida. And honestly, that nice toasty tan color does look good on me. It’s been effortless to maintain my… Read more
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PTSD
Reading Time: 2 minutes Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. You usually hear about that related to folks who’ve been in war and combat, or from those coming out of domestic violence situations. Recently though, I’ve seen people on Facebook and NextDoor who went through Hurricane Ian mentioning that they feel like they have a touch of… Read more
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Hurricane Ian
Reading Time: 3 minutes First, I have to say I am sick of talking about Hurricane Ian. It came, it conquered, it moved on. For a lot of Floridians, their lives forever after will be defined by this catastrophic weather event. I understand. We dealt with something similar in 2003 when we went through a… Read more
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The Cone of Uncertainty
Reading Time: 4 minutes As I write this, Randy and I are experiencing the approach of our first hurricane as Florida residents. It’s an interesting experience. My sister in Naples gave me some advice last week. She said when they start talking about a hurricane it takes twice as long to get here as they… Read more