temps have dropped to 28, bye bye roses. Remarkable how durable those knockout roses are though. They shrugged off the last two
frosts, some kill off but then started blooming away. So nice to see roses blooming at Thanksgiving. You folks in Texas are spoiled, like the Floridians with the warmer average temps that allows the more exotic plants to keep blooming. The walkway coming in at my friend's home in Florida is like a botanical garden, big reds and yellows, all kinds of colors blazing away. Absolutely beautiful. And what do we have? yeah, brown and grey. Though I'm not looking for snow which would make everything look beautiful.
I bet my friend's plants took a mild beating in that hurricane recently. Which reminds me, and I'm really digressing here, of an observation of mine that no one seems to do any work themselves in Florida, they hire everyone to do everything. So much money has moved down there I wonder if it has mentally polluted the work ethic of the state.
Anyways...the landscape gardeners after a big storm just rake it in, literally and figuratively. All those palm fronds on the lawn.
There must be an army of a million Hispanic landscapers that move over early in the morning to the wealthy coasts from the poorer middle of the state, the Swamp...
I lived on a boat between Ft Lauderdale and Miami for three years. My wife and I couldn't wait to go home.
The Northerners were too often the Ugly Americans, which I guess is an older term now.
Crass, selfish and unkind. They do settle down after they've been there awhile. Some remain insufferable.
Money does really corrupt the minds of some, builds a sense of self importance that just isn't healthy.
back to regular programming
Bad problems at work, midday funeral service,back to work.
