Christmas Countdown - 2016

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MerryCarey said:
Think positive thoughts, please ... Mr. has a couple of job leads to follow up on today, and we are hopeful.
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Positive thoughts, prayers, fingers crossed, toes crossed and eyes crossed!!! Good luck Mr!!
 
MerryCarey said:
Don't you love finds like that? What was the other album you found?
I was looking through our LPs for something one day and found a two-record set of Christmas music played on the Radio City Music Hall theater organ. Turns out that Mr. had bought it as a surprise for me, hid it among the other LPs, and forgot about it until I came across it!
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Merry, this is the cover of the other album. I have no memory of it at all.

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Edge612 said:
1.) I really find your posts interesting and entertaining to read.
2.) You make me appreciate the 4 seasons I have in the northeast. Sometimes in winter I complain it's too cold or I don't want the snow but I think that I'd rather have it this way than to be hot basically 95% of the year. That's a little much for me.
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LOL Oh thank Heaven's... I start typing and start editing myself for word count thinking, OMG these people are gonna ban me.

And yeah, I agree. From Pittsburgh originally and I MIIISSSS it so very much. We're currently looking at property in Vermont, Maine and Ireland. Yeah I know, whole other country and continent. LOL We love it there and I qualify for dual citizenship so would be a bit easier for me than an ex-pat in regards to Visas, etc.

We'll see. On the flip there are many people who live here from every imagineable corner of the globe and absolutely love it. Glad it works for them.
 
graywolf70 said:
Seeeeeaaaaasonnnnnn... I'm sorry... what's this word you speak of?

Florida has no seasons. Nothing. There is no lovely changing foliage. Even if it's cool it's usually still somehow humid. We're lucky if we get a total of a week and a half to two weeks worth of days that are what most everyone else considers Autumn temps. That usually only happens January or February. Every once in a great while (read every few years) the temp will dip into the 30's F at night.

If it was in the 40s at night, you'll quite likely be in the high 70s by noon if not low 80s. For the most part the only way you know it's "winter" is it's not quite as humid.

Late February the temps begin to climb again and by March, normal is mid-80s with about 70% humidity. By June you're in full fledged summer heat with temps in mid 90s at about 85% humidity. Late July through September is high 90s into the 100s at 98 to 100% humidity with real feel maintaining at about 105-110. It feels very much like if you were standing in a steam room and someone covered your face with a soaking wet hot towel and pulled it tight.

October is the time where you may get a day or two that are pleasant. Our kids Trick or Treat in the lightest weight costuming you can imagine, hosed down in bug repellant, carrying citronella torches. Most kids ask to call it a night not because their tired, but because they're too hot and its normal for parents to carry water to avoid overheating. LOL

Lest we forget we're action packed with every insect you can imagine from things that look like they pre-date mastadons to weird hairy squiggly biting things. More mosquitos per capita and giant spiders along with a vast array of poisonous snakes, frogs as far as the eye can see and alligators.

I give you... The Sunshine State. The most brilliant marketing ploy ever devised. LOL

Sadly to me, November and December are almost exactly like October. Case in point on Christmas we're more likely to have to run our air conditioners and show up to dinner in shorts and a tank top. LOL

I believe it's the simply the geographic location and land structure of the state as it relates to the continent. We jut off surrounded by the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. The cool fronts come across from the west across the Gulf and tropical currents push in from the Atlantic creating a perpetual state of heat and humidity. Our latitiude allows us to be closer to the sun so it burns off cloud cover for maximum UV index, but far enough to heat the moisture left in the air from both currents pushing into each other over bodies of water.

It's science's version of a Catholic's Pergatory. ;) LOL

Part of my view from a patio right now:
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Ah I see. I was curious whether you got a dry season and a rainy season like the Caribbean. I watched a documentary the other day about sinkholes and how common they are in Florida! Yikes! Now that is something to keep me away LOL !

Too much of anything can be a bit much especially heat like that. Here is it the opposite. I am so sick of dull,wet and cold. It gets to be to much sometimes when all you want is a little sunshine and warmth. :D

We shoud holiday swap!

I love the places you are considering to move to. Good luck deciding!
 
graywolf70 said:
Merry, this is the cover of the other album. I have no memory of it at all.

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I haven't seen that one, but I recognize the label (publisher), Diplomat Records. I have a children's Christmas LP featuring the Caroleers on Diplomat. My mom had a couple of Jesse Crawford Christmas albums that were pipe organ and chimes.
 
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