I traded sharks for alligators!
12-03-21, 04:32 AM
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12-03-21, 05:10 PM
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12-04-21, 01:44 PM
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So .... thrilled to hear about your investment strategy ... has it paid off? Are gators a better deal than sharks?
12-04-21, 02:13 PM
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Next year, come down to Clermont, FL for the Horrible Hundred. It's always the Sunday before Thanksgiving. It's a Century ride with 4,800 feet of climbing. That still may not be much for you, but I also recently did 6 Gap in NE Georgia. It's also a Century with 11,230 feet of climbing. After doing that, I thought the Horrible Hundred would be easy, six weeks later. It wasn't! The hills are much shorter, but many of them have a steeper grade, causing you to keep burning those matches. Come and enjoy it. It's Florida's most popular ride.
12-04-21, 03:36 PM
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I went to a great Christmas craft fair today…they shut the St Cloud Main Street down…tomorrow there’s a parade, a car show and they light the Christmas tree…great pork sandwich and homemade strawberry Ice cream!
12-04-21, 07:45 PM
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When it’s 78 in Chatham it’ll be 108 down there! Congrats on the move either way😀
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12-04-21, 08:10 PM
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My pool is inside and I’m not that far down in Florida …I’ve experienced some really hot weather at Disney and Key West…100*+ temperature differential in Key west…we timed our meals for the hottest times…I’ll plan shopping expeditions and such for those times…my soon to be resurrected bike shop(s) will be separate and well A/C’d!
There just seems to be a cooling breeze here!
There just seems to be a cooling breeze here!
12-09-21, 07:18 AM
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One consideration .... I have never heard about a shark bursting out of shallow water and chasing down prey on land .......
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12-11-21, 09:24 PM
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Soon, my pretties…lowered house price offer accepted…in by the weekend! House was bought furnished! Already 9/10s moved in! Brought my own bed, bedding and linens…present stuff is for my guests…already queuing up!
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12-16-21, 07:00 PM
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Signing papers tomorrow! First container shows up the 21st…householder stuff and my roll around tool boxes…emptied on the 22nd…gone on the 23rd…I don’t see the second container till the 27th!
Bikes, bicycles, and the work stands are in that one! I’ll take my time unloading that one; forty bikes, bicycles…the whole house is going to be my bicycle paradise!
Tastefully done of course!
Bikes, bicycles, and the work stands are in that one! I’ll take my time unloading that one; forty bikes, bicycles…the whole house is going to be my bicycle paradise!
Tastefully done of course!
12-20-21, 12:38 PM
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12-20-21, 12:40 PM
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12-20-21, 12:41 PM
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I used about a hundred feet of differing diameter pipe insulation! I used huge moving blankets because HF had a very successful sale on the lesser sizes of moving blankets! Everything was bumped and nudged to check for wound sources! I miss my shops and my babies!
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