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Back to the hinterland -- Rankee s Good ol boy membership
Well guys, as of today I'm no longer a wannabe Southerner. Have to drop the "R" and return the "Y" in "ankee".
I've given it my best and have run into a figurative wall. No more work down here for me, so I'm going back to Michigan (plenty of work if you want to do it for free, or next to nothing).
Yeah, I know going from one disaster area back to another. Makes me glad I didn't sell my place back home.
But I'll be a southerner at heart. Too bad palm trees don't like frozen tundra. Hmmmm I'm thinking "greenhouse."
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Back to the hinterland -- Rankee s Good ol boy membership
Thanks, Frank. Yeah, I will miss the food. Even the men here cook--someatimes betta thana thera whives!
I thought I was going to miss the weather---you know, the perpetual summer versus (I think Murf said) "6 months of good sledding and 6 months of not-so-good sledding". But realistically, living more than half the year under a constant and real threat of real storms going through here is more than I want to bear. Last year we had no hurricanes. But this Yankee isn't cut out for it. If I want 3-4 feet of water to wade through on a nice day (because a Noreasterner blew Gulf water up the bay), I'll wade in the neighbor's pool.
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Thanks guys. I have not seen one snake of any kind here in a year and a half. Heard about them. Seen no gators either.
Short of a few traumatized dogs, a kitten and a few Muskokey ducks that made through the storm, it was three months after the storm until we started hearing anything like a bird flying overhead, and 6 months before we heard any insects---they were either under water and drown or were blown out to sea. This is one experience I will never forget.
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Back to the hinterland -- Rankee s Good ol boy membership
Kenny you are right! I will know to keep my butt home and go work at McDonalds.
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Golly SG yer makin' me tear up. But it ain't like I'm leavin' my TP family. I tell you though it's going to be reverse climate shock--I was on the phone tonite with my buddy coming down to help transport my equipment. Apparently I was distracted because he asked what I was making a fuss about---told him I was swatting 'skeeters (It's 35 degrees with snow on the ground there). I don't wanna go, dang it!
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Awe gee SG, 'preciate it. Got home a few days ago. Took three days to get home since the trailers started fishtailing at about 65. Went from 70 degrees one day to 16 degrees a few days later---even got 4 inches of snow. Oh yeah since I sold my snow plow last Fall I just gazed out the wind'r (redneckspeak for "window" and thought how nice it was to enjoy the snow--rather than be plowing it at 2am. On the down side, came home to frozen and broken water pipes (apparently I didn't drain them all the way DOH!). Done about 6 repairs and still not fixed. Neighbor's letting me use his shower. Now it's in the 40's and mud everywhere underneath---or at least where I have to lay to fix the leaks.
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Murf the lines are CPVC---and there are now about 20 repairs made. Yup I should have drained the lines the right way; we use trailer mounted compresors to blow out sprinkler lines here sout' of Deeetroit.
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