Just some of the things I need to get off my chest.
I live here.
Published on June 26, 2007 By mschleisner In Community

If I get another person who tells me we don't have Alligators or Crocs here in Florida I will pull my hair out, they say, you don't have swamps, you don't have Eagles, rattle snakes, you name it. Look folks if you don't live here and don't google it then please do not argue with me I have lived here over 25 years, had gators at my back door from the pond, big ones. We are tropical here, we have lizards, free flying parrots, and bigger bugs then you can guess. Algae covered trees and swamps. Forrests, beaches ofcouse, but more than most people know.  Flamingos do fly free here. Monkeys are loose here too, Bobcats, foxes, wolves, bear, and racoons, possums, and armadillo. Killer bees too. Spiders that would send northerners back home, yes they are big. I have taken many pictures recently and had them questioned, two were in my computer that were in a download from key west, they turned out not to be mine. Didn't know who downloaded them or how they got in the folder, and we saw this same type of thing in near Key West while hiking in the woods, I have several others but will not post. I go through the woods at Hillborough State Park and now that one came into question so no more posts at this time. I will post on my own site outside wincustomize for now. One was reposted by someone else. I give up. my membership will just be for my own satisfaction and not those who know nothing about Florida and how we live, and what animals, bugs, birds live here. If this seems harsh it's not. I just don't think people know what is here and what isn't. I have seen other items taken off the net and posted here as someones photos, not everything here is a photo taken by the person who posted them, and no credit was given to the person who took the photo. Thanks for looking at my photos anyway.


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on Jul 27, 2007

You find mating harrowing?
You must be doing it wrong..


You obviously didn't know my first missus, then....reasons to be fearful, parts 1, 2 and 3. These days I'm not mating at all....too old n' grumpy to have the patience for full-time kids. I mean, I love it when my kids bring my grandkids to visit (visit being the operative word), but when I weary from all the excitement/attention giving, I can say to my kids: "Don't you think it's time to take these lil mites home and get 'em ready for bed.


Of course, we ALL 'know' Ayres Rock is just a burial mound for all them that didn't...


Um, that's Uluru these days...especially to we European invaders....and now I know that I shan't bother to dig it up to see wots under it.
on Jul 27, 2007

some silly jellyfish

...yep, they're silly alright.

You ought to see their impression of Clint Eastwood in 'Dirty Harry'.

"In all that confusion ...did I fire six deadly stingers into you, or only five?" "To be honest, in all that swimming & diving, I can't remember, but ...." "Do ya feel lucky, snorkelpunk?" ....."Well, .... Do ya?!"

Their acting is so damned transparent!   

on Jul 27, 2007
Their acting is so damned transparent!


Yeah, I usually like a performance with more substance....but in the case of the (deadly) impersonating jellyfish, I'd be more than happy to miss the show entirely. Was up at Airlie Beach a few years back when a rescue launch brought some guy in who got stung by one off one of the islands....poor bugger, was touch and go for a while.
on Jul 27, 2007
Ayres Rock is just a burial mound for all them that didn't


helluva head stone......

I shan't bother to dig it up to see wots under it.


probably just as well......more than two thirds of the rock is actually hidden beneath the ground.....and wot with you an' your gammy back an' all......
on Jul 27, 2007
probably just as well......more than two thirds of the rock is actually hidden beneath the ground...


Ah, so it's like an iceberg, eh...the biggest bit's underneath.

.and wot with you an' your gammy back an' all......


I didn't really need an excuse not to dig it up. You're right, with me crook back I didn't wanna have to anyway, so when Jafo said wot wos under it I wos relieved. Now yer tells me it's mostly underground (like a huge bloody great chunk of it), I can refer to that instead and save face big time when I make the formal announcement not to dig up Ayers...er, Uluru on national telly. Thank goodness you came along when you did, like before somebody tricked me into it by suggesting that Jafo lied about all them people bein' buried under there.
on Aug 02, 2007
ahoy Starkers, Very good of you to remember the grandkids, here too, lucky for me only one and she is now 19 months. It's crazy I babysit with grandpa daily for this little one and sometimes more than I can take. 12 hours of anything to do in a day is a long time. Plus run behind and clean up toys, all that bending and all. I might as well be crawling on my knees all day like a monitor lizard, get that belly to the ground now folks and get back up, oh yeah, feel the burn. Geez. Bad back is killing me, knees killing me. Oh well what we will do for our grandkid(s) is seamingly more than we would have done for the kids we had. I know I do more now, I had to work when they were young. I do however (once in a great while) tell her momma (nope busy today) can't babysit on your day off, thanks. I have to have one day to do my laundry and keep my sanity.   Sure wish I could get up the nerve to go out and take some pictures of something, Other than the problems with the Condos here. New trash compactor idea, one for 31 units instead of 12 dumpsters, and not handicapped accessible, it is dumping out into the parking lot every night, and the smell and flies,maggots, wow  . This place went crazy in the past two months with problems. Camera full of that stuff. Oh well back to the Dishes now....never ending. Later my friends, oh yeah Fun in Florida....today not so much.
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