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January in Florida.

Rich Z

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Temps weren't too bad today. Got up to around 65 degrees. Raining now though..

Anyway, Connie and I took a bit of a walk around to see if there were any trees down from the storm we had on Saturday. Just some branches, thankfully. I've been having problems with my left foot for months now with something called plantar fasciitis. Kind of feels like an ice pick stuck in my heel, but it seems to be getting better. At least I don't grit my teeth any longer just from walking. So I didn't want to walk too far or too long.

On the way back to the house we walked past her semi-tropical plants that we've been covering during cold nights and there was a baby gray rat snake sitting there sunning himself. Must have hatched out in the Fall, as he was pretty small. So I scooped him up and walked him up to the north end of the property (Connie doesn't like to think about the snakes eating "her" lizards around the house) and let him go there.

On the way back we were looking at some of our crepe myrtle trees with the beautiful cinnamon colored bark left behind when the outer layers sloughed off. Connie was removing some of the loose bark and a little gray tree frog jumped out at her. Of course I didn't have a camera with me, but heck, it's still an interesting day, herp wise, and makes a walk in the woods a lot more fun.
 
I've had bad PF. Some things that helped me are: Advil, religiously. Freezing plastic pop bottles of water, then icing my foot every time I laid down. Elevating my foot whenever possible. Doing an exercise where I put a towel on the floor, then scrunched the towel with my toes. Rolling a tennis ball under my foot. And deep massage- where you can feel the sole of the foot almost crunching. And taping it for relief. You tape across the ball of the foot to act as an anchor, and then two strips in an X running from the ball to the heel.
 
Nanci said:
I've had bad PF. Some things that helped me are: Advil, religiously. Freezing plastic pop bottles of water, then icing my foot every time I laid down. Elevating my foot whenever possible. Doing an exercise where I put a towel on the floor, then scrunched the towel with my toes. Rolling a tennis ball under my foot. And deep massage- where you can feel the sole of the foot almost crunching. And taping it for relief. You tape across the ball of the foot to act as an anchor, and then two strips in an X running from the ball to the heel.
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Any idea what you did to actually CAUSE it? I can't figure it out myself, so for all I know I'm STILL doing whatever it is that caused the damage in the first place. Yeah, I have a brace that I wear and then do some stretching exercises too. It's definitely getting better, but I'm thinking more and more about just cutting the foot off and be done with it. I guess I'll have to cut off the other foot to make my legs even, though. I figure I could just get myself a Seqway and to heck with that "walking" crap anyway. Just think of the money I'll save on shoes and socks! But if Connie thinks she hated it before when I would track sand into the house, wait till she sees the tire marks...... :punch:
 
I got mine from running. (On trails). Standing at work exacerbated it. It goes away eventually, if you do some of the things that relieve it.
 
Nanci said:
I got mine from running. (On trails). Standing at work exacerbated it. It goes away eventually, if you do some of the things that relieve it.
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Well, I DEFINITELY didn't get mine from running. :) I can't figure out what I might have done to cause it. So until I do, there is always the possibility I am still doing it, or will do it again.
 
I got PF bad in 2008 while I was working in Ohio. Took about 2 years to mostly heal, but every once in a while if I work it too hard, it flares up. I caused mine by hiking in the woods on uneven ground. I stepped over a fallen log wrong and that's all it took. And since I hike for work, it wasn't like I could just stay off my feet. So that made the healing process that much longer. And I now have the bone spur to prove it.
 
Myca said:
Sounds wonderful. I hear it will be in the 30s at the end of the week.
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Yeah, overnight lows is supposed to hit the upper 20's a few times, but the highs will probably be in the lower 50's and ,maybe 60's. Hauling out the tarps to cover the more sensitive plants and then folding them back up to put them in the shed so they don't get wet from the scattered rain showers gets to be a pain in the butt sometimes. We are in the zone where you can almost grow some tropical stuff if you cover them during those scattered freezing nights. Would LOVE to grow a big grove of banana plants, but they never do well here.
 
Sure hope that global warming kicks in before the glaciers get here......

Low overnight the next few days is supposed to be in the mid 20's. Man, I HATE cold weather!
 
Rich Z said:
Sure hope that global warming kicks in before the glaciers get here......

Low overnight the next few days is supposed to be in the mid 20's. Man, I HATE cold weather!
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I'm pretty sure I see a glacier outside my window and it's heading your way :)

Rethinking Belize ????
 
daddio207 said:
I'm pretty sure I see a glacier outside my window and it's heading your way :)

Rethinking Belize ????
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Nah... After watching a bunch of videos of the area both with road conditions, culture differences, etc., it's not any place I would want to live. Might be nice to visit as a vacation, but once that novelty wears off, it will likely be nice to come back home.

Anyway, glad I am in Florida rather than up north where there are some brutally cold temperatures lately. Temps should start getting better here in a few days. It's 50 degrees out, and I haven't thought of any reason whatsoever to go outside yet.
 
I'm a native-born Floridian and I moved to South Carolina a while back. I have water for blood, I can't handle this "cold" nonsense.

On one hand, it makes me feel better that it's just as cold in FL as it is in the rest of the country. On the other hand, the low here tonight is 12. :cry:
 
Polar Vortex will be the name of my next snake. My youngest child missed that bullet ha-ha :D

how about Hawaii ?
 
daddio207 said:
Polar Vortex will be the name of my next snake. My youngest child missed that bullet ha-ha :D

how about Hawaii ?
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From what I have heard it is VERY expensive to live in Hawaii. Plus heck, I dunno, living right over top of active volcanoes just doesn't seem to be a very wise thing to do. :shrugs:
 
Rich Z said:
From what I have heard it is VERY expensive to live in Hawaii. Plus heck, I dunno, living right over top of active volcanoes just doesn't seem to be a very wise thing to do. :shrugs:
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Yeah, good point!
See, this is the problem every time I look around for a warmer place to live. Volcanoes, tornados, hurricanes, earthquakes, venomous, poisonous, crime, seems to me that a few months of cold and snow is easily survivable compared to all that.
If it wasn't for that darn Polar Vortex !!! -9 this morning :angry01:
 
The temps here overnight didn't get as low as they had predicted. Got down to just about 32 degrees around midnight and then reversed direction to get up to 36 degrees. They are still calling for a low of 21* tonight, but looks like precipitation is to the west of us and heading this way. Lordy, sure hope that doesn't mean snow coming. I can do without seeing that crap around here.
 
I'm just hoping we get up to 32* here soon!

Years ago, I almost bought a place in the Myrtle Beach area for the winter months. A vacation home until full retirement. Guess it's not south enough now.
Never been to the FL keys but like the looks of "island life". I would guess it's expensive to live there too. One of these days I would like to tour them on my motorcycle but getting there on a bike is killing that dream.
 
You could trailer your bike down to Key largo, then go from there. I can't imagine the keys are anywhere close to as expensive as Hawaii is.
 
We have talked about trailering our bikes down to Bradenton where my dad lives and taking the bikes from there. We always ride the bikes to wherever we go but I think if we are serious about riding the keys then we will have to trailer them :(.

I was curious how long from here and mapquest'd it to Key Largo. Apparently there is a major traffic jam or the Polar Vortex is causing a 463 day delay LOL

''27 hrs 45 mins / 11137 hrs 41 mins based on current traffic''
 
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