Only In Florida

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Tue May 08, 2007 7:45 am

Great purse!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Tue May 08, 2007 9:15 am

They said on the news that it had to *be put down.*
This was at Baldwin Park, a new upscale planned community built on land that once housed the Navy base.

It's weird that today when I got up there was a Navy Exchange receipt lying on the kitchen floor and it was from 1988 and was for 2 cartons of cigarettes, with $2 off coupon - the 2 cartons cost $9.90 minus $1 each- that was $8.90 a carton.

The Base Exchange was probably pretty close to where this gator was hit- isn't that weird?

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Tue May 08, 2007 9:18 am

(The receipt probably fell out of the lower kitchen cupboard after I put a Rice Krispie Treat pan back in there last night- I just didn't notice it- probably- tho I always pick up things immediately they fall upon the floor...)

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:11 pm

This one is for William, who for years has followed the Florida gator stories coming from me.

http://www.wftv.com/caughtintheact/index.html

If one goes to this link, you can click on "Images" under the gator pic, which gives an annotated slide show. That's if you don't want the video.

If you prefer the slideshow, every few frames there will be a flashing ad. At the upper right corner you can click on "Skip Ad."

Also, after the gator story, check out, on the lower right side, the video just released of the "Surveillance Video Shows Arrested Astronaut at Airport." This is the tape of Nowack stalking her astronaut love rival at the Orlando airport.

SteveS. · Post by **SteveS.** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:53 pm

OMG. I can't even imagine being "surprised" by an alligator. I'd probably drop dead right there on the spot. LOL

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:26 pm

Good god!!! Can you imagine walking up to your car to unlock the door and finding that set of teeth near your ankles?

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Fri May 11, 2007 2:34 pm

Holy cow!! Wouldn't have to worry about some one stealing your car!!! Heck of an alarm system when the owner won't even go near it! lol

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sat May 12, 2007 10:17 pm

A 5 footer was hauled away from a Central Florida neighborhood today.
They say it's the drought and mating season.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu May 24, 2007 6:32 pm

Just what I need!

Today...

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Thu May 24, 2007 7:08 pm

ARE THEY.......???

Tracy...

shakiboo · Post by **shakiboo** » Thu May 24, 2007 7:43 pm

Oh surely not...........lol

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:07 pm

Just what do you mean, Kat?

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Thu May 24, 2007 8:15 pm

Oh my goodness! I feel like such a voyeur. Was there a bad 70s soundtrack playing in the background? Bow-chicka-bow-bow.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu May 24, 2007 11:17 pm

I think the subject title "MAKEMORELIZARDS" is self-explanatory!!

I do not need more lizards! I actually built a barrier of boxes by my back door that I have to step over to get in and out my house that will keep the little buggers out! A little one keeps running in and I've herded him out again. This way he'll hit the barrier and hopefully turn right around and go out.

I interrupted 2 the other day. I was stumped! Do I keep going and scare them from such activity as you see here? Or leave them to it? Well, I interrupted them last time, this time I let them be. I was brushing down my house from the lawnmowing.

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Fri May 25, 2007 6:11 am

Kat, I think you can expect a bunch of Lizzie-ards in the near future.

Shelley · Post by **Shelley** » Fri May 25, 2007 7:02 am

The male looks a lot smaller than the female- often the case with spiders.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri May 25, 2007 11:03 pm

Harry @ Fri May 25, 2007 7:11 am wrote:Kat, I think you can expect a bunch of Lizzie-ards in the near future.

Good one!
I hadn't thought of that!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon May 28, 2007 4:49 pm

I don't know if anyone has heard of this, but there's been a Monitor lizard on the loose in a nearby town! I think it's a 5 footer. People are afraid for their small pets and children. It got shot at this past week because they can't seem to trap it.

http://www.wesh.com/news/13399323/detail.html

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 2:46 pm

Kat @ Thu May 24, 2007 7:32 pm wrote:Just what I need!

Today...

She's pregnant! And still hanging around!

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 7:47 pm

The good thing is that they eat alot of bugs, don't they? More mouths to feed, less bugs (like spiders) around your place for awhile. Maybe you could hire a reptile wrangler to round them up and transplant them elsewhere?

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 10:48 pm

Pregnant?! Well, Tracy, it looks like you got your answer. I guess they were!

-1bigsteve (o:

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:39 pm

I guess it was good I really knew the answer before I asked the question huh ?

Tracy...

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 11:51 pm

SteveS. @ Fri May 11, 2007 9:53 am wrote:OMG. I can't even imagine being "surprised" by an alligator. I'd probably drop dead right there on the spot. LOL

That's not an alligator, Steve, that's an IRS agent... no, wait... you're right it is an alligator, I can see the scales.

-1bigsteve (o:

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:28 am

There are baby lizards on my chain-link fence on the other side of my house!

Today I killed 2 big spiders! They come and go from beneath my computer table of all places!

BTW: I've seen lizards eat and they only eat moths that I have seen.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:40 am

They're coming for you, Kat! "Attack of The Killer Spiders" or "From Beneath The Computer Table They Came!" See the blood! The sheer terror! Will Kat make it out alive? Stay tuned... Remember those '50's sci-fi hooror flicks we watched as kids? I hate spiders. Lizards are not so bad. They eat bugs and keep other creepy crawlies at bay. They made a movie about a giant lizard and several about giant spiders but I can't remember ever seeing a flick about a giant snake.

What kind of spiders are they, Kat? The deadly ones are the Black Widow, Brown Widow and the Violin Spider.

-1bigsteve (o:

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:07 pm

Here are a few links for some accurate spider information:

VENOMOUS/MOST DEADLY:
http://www.entomon.net/venomous-most-de ... r-webs.htm

BLACK WIDOWS:
http://www.desertusa.com/july97/du_bwindow.html

BROWN RECLUSE (VIOLIN):
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html

BROWN WIDOW:
http://www.247wildlife.com/brown-widow-spider.htm

Tracy...

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 12:50 pm

Thanks alot, Tracy! I've overcome my fear of the Borden house, now you've stirred up my heebie jeebies again with the spiders. I'll be walking around on my toenails the rest of the summer.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:45 pm

Sorry but I won't be going to any spider sites. Thanks for not posting pictures, Tracy!

Mine have small bodies and very long legs. Almost "*clean-looking*. But I've had spiders in a stand-off against me- they are fearless!

BTW: I am now swimming at a new pool and was warned there is at least one juvenile black snake out back there. Well, I almost bumped into him today- the day I let my guard down! I actually apologized to the snake for coming upon him unawares.

I scared him!
Now I know where he lives I can keep clear of that area.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 5:53 pm

Hey BigSteve! I remember all those movies of giant creatures! I thought someone analyzed those and the era and theorized they were manifestations of our fears of being overrun by Communists.

Heck, I remember Conalrad drills in Cocoa Beach where we had to crawl under our school desks when the siren went off!
Like that would protect us living that near Cape Canaveral!

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 6:49 pm

Kat @ Fri Jun 22, 2007 2:53 pm wrote:Hey BigSteve! I remember all those movies of giant creatures! I thought someone analyzed those and the era and theorized they were manifestations of our fears of being overrun by Communists.
Heck, I remember Conalrad drills in Cocoa Beach where we had to crawl under our school desks when the siren went off!
Like that would protect us living that near Cape Canaveral!

That's true, Kat. Hollywood played up people's fear of the Russians and giant creatures growing because of radioactivity (the Bomb). Even men and women growing to huge size. I remember giant scorpins, spiders, gila monster, prehistoric creatures, preying mantis, bird, squid, octopus and probably more that I've forgotten.

I remember those stupid "duck and cover" drills too. I can just see thirty kids found under their desks with their butts burned-off by radiation. I imagine the Russian kids were taught the same thing. October '62 was a tense time was'nt it?!

-1bigsteve (o:

Susan · Post by **Susan** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 7:56 pm

I remember seeing a show on TV about "duck and cover" and I recall that I and my brothers laughed ourselves silly about the idea. I found it on YouTube, heres the link, enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 8:56 pm

theebmonique @ Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:07 am wrote:Here are a few links for some accurate spider information:

VENOMOUS/MOST DEADLY:
http://www.entomon.net/venomous-most-de ... r-webs.htm

BLACK WIDOWS:
http://www.desertusa.com/july97/du_bwindow.html

BROWN RECLUSE (VIOLIN):
http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2061.html

BROWN WIDOW:
http://www.247wildlife.com/brown-widow-spider.htm

Tracy...

Nice sites, Tracy. Thank you. I studied Black Widows when I was a kid until one got loose from her jar I had in my bedroom. I never did find her.

Hey, Kat, click on Tracy's "Brown Widow" link and click on the "Florida Spiders" link at the bottom of the page. You might see mug shots of some of your Florida spider friends. Tracy's top link "Venomous/Most deadly" has some real good info on insects in general with all kinds of facts. I got all four sites in my favorites section.

When my dad was a kid a friend of his, who lived in Florida, had a huge spider living in his flower trough outside his front door. The spider was purplish in color. He always warned my dad not to hurt his spider. Any idea what kind of spider that would be?

-1bigsteve (o:

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:12 pm

Susan @ Fri Jun 22, 2007 4:56 pm wrote:I remember seeing a show on TV about "duck and cover" and I recall that I and my brothers laughed ourselves silly about the idea. I found it on YouTube, heres the link, enjoy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0K_LZDXp0I

I remember seeing that one, Susan. I can't help but laugh now. Some of those films were so korny!

Just a little too "goody-goody." Ducking and covering when you see a "flash" is about like closing your front door when you see an F-10 tornado coming up your driveway.

-1bigsteve (o:

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:09 am

Angel @ Fri Jun 22, 2007 9:50 am wrote:Thanks alot, Tracy! I've overcome my fear of the Borden house, now you've stirred up my heebie jeebies again with the spiders. I'll be walking around on my toenails the rest of the summer.

Angel, have you ever wondered how many spiders crawl all over our bodies as we lay asleep at night? Must be a bunch.

I just wanted to give you something pleasant to think about.

-1bigsteve (o:

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:17 am

1bigsteve- you are truly an evil, evil man.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 10:48 am

Angel @ Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:17 am wrote:1bigsteve- you are truly an evil, evil man.

I just knew you would "love" that one, Angel. I can be sooooo naughty at times!

-1bigsteve (o:

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:01 pm

I had to deal with one of my sons who was like you when he was growing up. He would take those dreadful black plastic spiders at Halloween and put them into my bed. And, to this day, if he is around my house and watching TV, he will see that the movie "Arachniphobia" is on and he will turn it on and run out of the room giggling.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:00 pm

Angel @ Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:01 am wrote:I had to deal with one of my sons who was like you when he was growing up. He would take those dreadful black plastic spiders at Halloween and put them into my bed. And, to this day, if he is around my house and watching TV, he will see that the movie "Arachniphobia" is on and he will turn it on and run out of the room giggling.

He was like me? You mean he was sweet and innocent too?

Actually I never was a practical joker and still not. Verbal teasing is OK as long as it's above the belt and clean. I never liked practical jokes. I had a childhood friend who pulled stuff on me and it wore me out just keeping on the watch when he was around, wondering what he would pull next. Jokes can get people killed. I saw "Arachniphobia" once and that was enough for me! That scene of that guy reaching behind that toilet, inches from that spider, gave me the creeps. I like spiders even less now. Every now and then I'll feel one crawling across my face at night.

Insects don't bother me for some reason but spiders I do not like.

-1bigsteve (o:

Angel · Post by **Angel** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 9:46 pm

No, he wasn't sweet and innocent like you. In fact, all three loved to jump out of places and scare the hell out of me, wait until I was almost asleep and then pop a hand puppet up beside my face by the bed so I'd think some creature was after me, hide my plate of food when I turned my back so I thought I was losing my mind, etc., etc., etc. Actually, we had a tremendous amount of fun. We even had a gigantic water fight in the house one time. Most people would have thought I was a strange mother, but we had a riot. Still miss that.

1bigsteve · Post by **1bigsteve** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 11:35 pm

Angel @ Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:46 pm wrote:No, he wasn't sweet and innocent like you. In fact, all three loved to jump out of places and scare the hell out of me, wait until I was almost asleep and then pop a hand puppet up beside my face by the bed so I'd think some creature was after me, hide my plate of food when I turned my back so I thought I was losing my mind, etc., etc., etc. Actually, we had a tremendous amount of fun. We even had a gigantic water fight in the house one time. Most people would have thought I was a strange mother, but we had a riot. Still miss that.

Sounds to me like you were a perfect mother, Angel. Life should be filled with happy moments. I always try to live by the meaning in my signature. Savor those memories, Angel. It's what makes life live.

-1bigsteve (o:

nbcatlover · Post by **nbcatlover** » Tue Jul 03, 2007 8:04 pm

If you really want to creep yourself out at night, think dust mites! You may have up to 10 million of them in your mattress, crawling all over their little eyeless selves just waiting to gobble up loose flakes of your skin...just like tiny vampires! Yum!