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Hey everyone! We made it to Florida in one piece. Tomorrow comes opening the truck up and see how much of our stuff survived! Surprisingly a laptop we thought out of order was able to connect us. This is good! Being able to reach out to the community has always been my lifeline.
Hugs
Grover and Understanding Spouse :)
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Good to know you're safe
Welcome to the Sunshine State, now buy an umbrella. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Glad you had a save trip
Glad you had a save trip Groover :ddd
Lynne
All the best hon
Hey Grover and UW,
May blessings be abundant in your new home.
with love,
Hope
with love,
Hope
Once in a while I bare my soul, more often my soles bear me.
Glad you made it!
Hope you enjoy living there. On the plus side you can visit Disney as much as you want ( or afford :( )
Kim
Grover's Miracle
Ah, Florida. Where my people (Canadians) send our elderly to die gruesomely after their usefulness is at an end...
(And none of them will take me with them, dammit.)
Have fun!
Lisa
White Christmas
Before we left someone remarked that we wouldn't see a white Christmas in Tampa. I replied that Florida has some of the whitest sands in the world and that it would serve very well as a substitute. :)
As for rain, we got a few drops as we got to hotel where we're recuperating until we sign the lease in the morning. Paula is all ready to go Disney but I'm still holding pat for mermaids.
Hugs
Grover
Does the Little Mermaid wear an algebra?
Good choice. Mermaids rule.
Mmm, white sand instead of snow. *dreams of a white sandy snow-substitute christmas*
Lisa
We have to send them south...
Disney bought our ice flows when they bought the RCMP Musical Ride.
Bailey Summers
Disney bought the ice flows...
Yeah, I thought of mentioning the po' folk send our elderly to the ice flows, but I'm not surprised Disney bought them all up. Now, of course, it costs more than sending them to Florida, and we have to trap our elderly in the back yard for their final days. (hey, mine have a dog house to sleep in, at least)
This reminded me of when Paramount bought Canada's Wonderland (theme park) and suddenly there were Klingons walking around in it... (it's changed hands a few times since then, I think)
Lees
Paramount Carowinds
I had a really nice reply talking about how Paramount did the same to Carowinds, a park on the North/South Carolina border, but the internet ate it. Too mind dead to try and recreate it. However we are well and even our little dog survived the trip. moving it all inside to a second floor apartment? That remains to be seen. :)
hugs
Grover
grover's move successful, and your little dog too...
Yeah, I think nearly everyone here has probably had that moment of... "What? Where's that huge honkin' message I just typed out?! It can't be GONE?!"
For me, it was usually private messages. Long ones I just spent an hour composing. So I am in the habit of copying the final message into the windows clipboard before posting, just to repost if it gets munched. I'm a slow learner and I learned the hard way.
Klingons in North/South Carolina?!? Say it ain't so!
Glad the move went well. :) And if your little dog survived it, that's the most important thing. :P
Lisa
Wonderful news indeed!
I'm so glad everything seems to have gone smoothly, my friend. I know you're gonna be busy as a one legged man in an a$$ kicking contest over the next week or so, so don't worry about us so much. Take it slow and easy and get stuff where it belongs. Think of us poor folks up here in the "other" white stuff once in awhile though, wouldja?
Also, best of luck with a different V.A. facility, when you make contact with them.
You didn't mention though... how did Tinka make the trip? Did you have to stop every few miles to let her... um... do her thing?
Huggles and love 'n stuff.
Cathy
As a T-woman, I do have a Y chromosome... it's just in cursive, pink script.
good luck!
good luck in warm 'n sunny florida! say hi to david caruso just in case you see him :)) (is it warm n sunny there now, btw? its sunny but cold here)
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Howdy neighbor
You made it, here is your complimentary bag of oranges and a few rules of the road that most floridians know and expect you to follow.
1. Just because a light is green doesn't mean you have to go right away, take some time before stepping on the gas to reflect on if the green is the right shade to motivate you to go.
2. You can turn right on red, but you may want to join your brothers and sisters in non-right turn on red states by staying put, especially when there is a line of other people behind you.
3. It's called a speed limit for a reason, you don't actually have to go 35 miles per hour. If you feel like going 12.5 miles per hour, feel free.
4. Your turn signal let's people know you are going to turn left or right, but doesn't tell them when and doesn't need to. If you need to turn right in 6 miles, avoid the rush and put the turn signal on now.
5. If you find yourself hungry there are plenty of opportunities to go through a drive-thru lane, but be sure to have a lengthy conversation with the cashier (they're people too) this is particularly advantageous during evening rush times, because the fry cook looks like he can use a break.
6. The best time to take a slow leisurely drive is either 6a.m or 5 p.m. Monday through Friday, and there will be plenty of other motorist to keep you company.
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Also if you want to buy a subscription to your local paper (the st. pete times) let me know. It's 52 dollars for the year and if you order through me i get 40bucks (it's the new math)
K.T. Leone
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Katie Leone (Katie-Leone.com)
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giggling
thats cute. Pity we get those drives here in winnipeg alot. only a few minor things.
Signals are to not be used when turning slam on brakes at last possible minute and then turn slowly.
If your signal is to be used make sure to leave it on the entire time you are driving in a straight line.
When ever possible treat photo radar camera traffic lights as the drag strip.
At least once a week make sure to drive through parking lots and cross infront of stores at speed.
And finnaly, Shopping cars are to be hit with bumpers of car at all times. Do not get out of car and remove them. When you come back from store be curtious and leave your cart in the middle of the parking spot next to you.
The most important rules for NW Ohio are...
Green means smell the roses, yellow means gun it, red means slam on your breaks, but only AFTER accelerating crazily and swerving around whoever's in front of you.
If you want to make a left turn onto a 4 lane highway with a fifth center turn lane, make sure you wait until there's a car and bicyclist pacing each other on the oncoming lanes, THEN pull out just as they're about to pass the street you're coming out of. Bonus points if there's traffic on the lanes you want to merge on, and instead of sitting in the center turn lane for your chance to merge, you just cut everyone off on all four lanes of traffic at once!
If you think the bicyclist riding in front of you, going roughly the speed limit, is too slow, don't just go around them. Blare on your horn for a full minute before doing so. While passing them, be sure to yell out "Get off the fucking road, bitch!", and once past, you absolutely must remember to flip them off. After all, bicyclists belong on the sidewalks so they can play dodge the pedestrian.
Abigail Drew.
Abigail Drew.
It's a Miricle!
Glad you made it.
May Your Light Forever Shine
May Your Light Forever Shine
Little Katie Forgot This
1. If you see something you want on the left side of the road it is OK to turn left from the right lane
2.It is OK to pull out of a parking lot without looking in front of a motorcycle (watch the rider fly note: extra points for over 20 feet high and 100 feet down the road)
3. Red lights mean nothing
4. The long skinny pedal is the gas and the square 1 is the brake ,but it is OK to mix them up
5. Most Banks you can drive in the the counter no need to get out of your car.
6. If you see a car in front of you with no driver it's because they are short
7. Road rage is handled with a 9mm glock
I am sure I am forgetting some other important rules you need to survive on the roads in Florida but the most inportant is NO BLACK ICE or SNOW
correct no black ice or snow
but there is sinkholes which are just as fun.
nah...
The sinkholes would have to be worse, as a bicyclist, at least.
Snow is easy. Ice ain't too bad. Even black ice is perfectly manageable if you know what you're doing.
But I've gotten caught in a sinkhole or two (we get them on our dirt trails around Ohio from time to time in the summer, they of course freeze during our winters) and they're not at all easy to get out of.
With snow, you just hold a steady pace and don't panic and you never even get caught to worry about anything. With ice, you likewise, just keep a steady pace over it, occasionally you do need to skid it though. They're perfectly easy to handle.
Abigail Drew.
Abigail Drew.
Just welcome to the Sunshine State
RAMI
Dear Grover and Loving Spouse (not just Understanding)
Welcome to Florida, the Sunshine State. Yes we have some problems, but when I get down about living here, I just need to see a Zerex Antfreeze commercial that shows Buffalo (I lived there for awhile) in the mists of a snowstorm, with six foot drifts, icey roads and car crashes and remember why we moved here.
Enjoy the state, enjoy the sun. Go see Mickey, you can be there in about an hour. Get a Florida resident pass (its cheaper). Go to Bush Gardens (Oh well no more free beer).
Rami
RAMI
Florida
Welcome to the sunshine state,we moved here from Michigan a year and a half ago now.Was the best thing We ever could have done.Don't have to shovel sand!