Where I live, here in the Sunshine State, this summer’s weather has been great — for plants.

And for people who don’t mind changing their clothes at least a couple times each day.

It seems like we’ve had alternating sunlight and heavy thunderstorms every day for the past couple of months. [more...]

My wife and I have lived in the Sunshine State for the past 7 1/2 years.

We love our home and our neighbors.

And even though there are times when it is stiflingly hot and humid, our area has only gotten down to freezing on three or four nights — for only an hour or two each time — since we’ve lived here. [more...]

This morning, I had a humorous email exchange with one of my oldest friends.

He lives up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois.

Where they’ve already gotten tons of snow and weeks of frigid weather.

And where [more...]

Many years ago, my wife and I had a friend named Larry.

Although he was pretty wild and macho before we met him, we knew him as a pretty quiet, gentle, family guy.

But sometimes, his sense of humor seemed to reflect his past. [more...]

The temperature was 28 degrees (F) with overcast skies, up in my old stomping grounds in The Frostbite State.

But here in my current stomping (and rollerskating) grounds, it was 68 degrees (F) with blue, sunny skies, plenty of white, puffy clouds, and [more...]

The title of this entry is actually a pun on a couple of different levels — which you’ll eventually understand if you continue reading.

I love the weather in the Sunshine State.

Except for the middle of winter, almost every day of the year is warm, with deep blue skies, white, puffy clouds and plenty of sunshine.

But you have to take [more...]

On December 21, 2003, my wife and two of our neighbors and I packed our rented moving truck about one-half full and connected a dolly behind it to tow our second car. Then, the next morning, my wife, our pets and I — with me driving the truck that pulled our second car, and my wife following behind in our other car — began our 1600+ mile move from the Frostbite State to the Sunshine State. My wife followed behind me so that we could work together to maneuver the [more...]

In addition to plenty of lightning, the Sunshine State also has plenty of sand.

In fact, we don’t have any of the black dirt that northerners are used to seeing in the ground.

Our “dirt” is sand. With [more...]