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American flags, thin blue line flags, Trump 2024 and DeSantis 2024 flags, ain’t seen a Liberal flag yet except for the Gay Pride 101st Airborne guy’s place.

This place is like a resort, the big decision is which restaurant you’re gonna eat at next. Then back home and get on the big screen TV 🙂 Like a Boomer version of Brave New World.

But….. My short time here at NeverNever Land is rapidly drawing to a close, I gotta drive back to the front lines this weekend.

At least I can drop in and freeload from time to time 🙂

If you are referring about removing pornographic books from grade schools libraries then I am all for it. Exposing minors to pornography without parental consent is not free speech, its child abuse.

Only the restaurants with outside dining...

North Florida is Dixie, South Florida is an odd mix of New York and Cuba. Central Florida is cattle country, except for Orlando, which is owned by organized crime. The coasts are pretty, with select areas of fantastic fishing opportunities separated by pretty barren stretches of water.

As to the OP, Florida has been where old people from the NE retire as long as I have been alive.

All of the fast food restaurants staffed by 80 years old white people freak me out a little.

Several years ago I got up early and took the backroads up from the Keys to I-95.

As far as I can tell, the flyover area of southern Florida is swampland that is occasionally interrupted by Negroes lined up outside of a liquor store.

Hey thanks, sounds like a great place but an old trailer park is more my speed 🙂

Which brings up the point that between here and Fort Myers there was a surprising number of surviving trailer parks. Hit or miss with roof damage too in my brother’s neighborhood. He lucked out but damaged roofs every direction, plastic tarps still up on many. Roofing companies still in evidence.

Blue traps will fly for years.
Lots of self insured winter homes.
FEMA bucks are for your primary residence only.

Uhh no dude. I'm talking about naming the people who are pushing that [bleep] on kids, jews, can end up in a felony charge if the bill passes. I agree and those who do what you described should be locked up or worse.

For me too, except I was up in New York. Florida stereotypically was a place for retired obnoxious Jewish folk and Mafia figures. Even back then tales of elderly blue hairs driving into garage doors and storefronts were stuff of legend.

What I’m seeing here is those Boomers from as far West as Wyoming and all points East who enjoyed good health, good fortune and who planned intelligently. Not really my cup of tea even if I had planned intelligently but more power to ‘em.


The ol’ Boomer work ethic kicking in.

Silly Rabbit, Florida was where crackers were invented.

https://floridacrackertrail.org/about/our-history/

We herded cattle on foot before horses were introduced. Hell, we even invented cattle herding.

We got too damn many yankee libs moving here because of weather and taxes, who want to make Florida just like "up home"

Yep, same thing here in AZ. The interlopers descending on AZ are typically from CA, CO, OR, and WA. Not yanks in the typical sense but have the same White Man Disease, aka "progressives".

I was gonna say ‘Sorry Dude, it’s always gonna be Cowboys and Indians not Crackers and Indians’ but I’m pretty sure it’s getting to be ‘Animal-exploiting Racists and Oppressed Indigenous Peoples’.

Hadda be more open at one time for them Seminoles to pull off those record damn-near 500 yard potshots on US troops at Withlacootchie.

Cool deal on spotting a limpkin birdie.

Not on my list yet, along with a bunch of other SE US birds. Being a fish guy, I always have wanted to see a damn snakebird in the wild.

Rumors and fantasy rolled into one. Need a light?

FYI, it’s Withlacoochee.

When you find the Fountian of Youth, I want to buy some.

You can call Bosworth (1846) a fantasist if ya want, but he was quoting Edmund P. Gaines direct, and General Gaines was on the field that day, lost a tooth or teeth to one of them Seminole Hail Mary shots, wrote the War Department about it.

https://www.abebooks.com/book-searc...ol-and-fowling-pieces/author/bosworth-n/

You probably know Gaines was one of the genuine heroes of our history AND he surveyed much of the South. The guy didn’t BS much. He did say that if the Feds had just left him in charge he coulda brung the whole 2nd Seminole Debacle to a close a whole lot sooner.

When I brung this to their attention over at Traditional Muzzleloading Forums they starting making repeatable 400 yard round ball hits. So there’s that.

And I’m pretty sure he spelled it Ouithlacoochie 🙂

I’ve found the Fountain of Wound Up Drivers, been honked and yelled at four times already. One finger but that was from a Florida Man, not a Boomer.

I’ve also found the Fountain of Old White People getting burned red in expensive convertibles.

…and the Fountain of Blonde Hair Dye has gotta be around here somewhere 🙂

Not at all challenge to find as it turns out, it is a challenge for my cell phone, this was only about 25 yards out. Before this I woulda thought I was gonna have to go wading in a swamp.



Anhinga? This one was on some guy’s lawn 🙂



Two bald eagles and a pair of Florida Sandhills today. Strange dearth of Carolina wrens and cardinals, just a couple of each. Songbirds way down in general, maybe the hurricane blew the sedentary species away.

In particular, other than a purple martin or two, NO swallows. This is all sand around here, maybe no mud to build nests I dunno.

Anyways what ain’t houses or lawns or water here is recently thrashed longleaf pine forest inundated by dense oak and palmetto scrub.

Cool stuff.

I was half expecting to see some white fronted ibis on the way to my appointment yesterday. Swampy areas are becoming ice free for good parts of the day. Killdeer have been back for a couple of weeks, cranes too, so I'm expecting the ibis and shorebirds soon. There's a willet pair that nests around here, haven't heard them yet. Didn't see many juncos hitting the bird scratch this morning, maybe they're starting to move to higher ground too.

We had a couple of decent size flocks of horned larks up on the mowed areas of the development up the road last week. All gone now. Guessing moved north towards the wheat fields where I used to see them in WA every year. Canada too?

Mulitple meadowlarks were singing this morning, there had been only a couple. I guess they're back for good now.