Appreciate the thought John, but I have a great furnace and a well insulated home. A few weeks ago it was -30° F . That's cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey!!
Climate is cyclical. Two years ago we had near record snowfall. I ran out of room to put it by Christmas. Other years we've had extended cold snaps where temps rarely got above -20° F. In 1980, I started riding my motorcycle on March 8th!! In 1997, we had two major blizzards in APRIL!! Back to your regularly scheduled penguins driving John crazy thread.
Hey John, My wife's aunt and uncle (now both gone) moved down here to Ft. Myers from Cleveland Ohio. They would spend all day, every day, inside with either the heat or the air conditioning running. I never figured out why they came here - they could have just as easily done the same thing in Cleveland. BTW: They both smoked and never opened a window. Their condo stunk to high heaven. The bride and I visited as rarely as we could get away with.
To Fox's Den... That's funny. My driveway and street in front of my house are filled with smokey burnout marks. They watch in amazement when we, or friends do it, but it doesn't seem to faze them. To John... I completely understand what you are saying. I am a native Floridian, I HATE inside!!! The only time I go inside is to use the bathroom. My computer sits on the table in the screen porch, along with my 65 inch TV. Got my refrigerator a few steps away in the garage. (Oh dang, did someone say beer?) Friday... I can't tell you all what a beautiful day it was. Blue skies, slight breeze, and 79 degrees. The male penguin stayed inside pretty much all day. He did go for one walk around the block in the morning. I'm working on my boat trailer and the other penguins were sitting outside. He chose to go back in, sit in the recliner with a blanket over him, and watch TV. Why the blanket? They claim that it's FREEZING inside! The A/C is set at 75 degrees. Yes, it came on a few times during the day. The A/C vent in the living room points straight down on the couch and recliner. Too funny!!! The female penguin would go inside and bug him to come outside. "It's much warmer outside Dick." Cracks me up that they think 75* is freezing. I'm sure if they were home freezing, their thermostat would be set much lower than that. Food... OMG can those penguins eat. Seems like every time I go in the house they're stuffing their faces. Well, mostly the female penguin. The male, not so much. Whatever the female makes for the male he usually eats half of it and puts the other half in the refrigerator as another "never going to eat" leftover. (Actually, he doesn't do anything. When he's finished eating he just gets up and leaves his mess for his wife to clean up. He must've had a very interesting upbringing. If I, or my other brothers and sisters had done that we would have gotten our butts whooped!!!) Junk food... My wife and the female penguin go to the grocery store. My wife comes back with food, and the penguin brings back pies, pastries, cookies, and chips. Believe me, she eats that junk food all day long! Now it's time for the bad news... The other night my son and I are over at a buddy's house. I asked my son, when are they leaving, because I thought they'd be gone by now. My son tells me, "Whenever you kick them out." Well that certainly was NOT true! Thursday I'm spraying for weeds in the front yard. It's very quiet work with lots of time for thinking. The female penguin is talking to a friend back in Cincinatti. You know, "long distance," so you talk extra loud. I clearly heard her tell her friend that they wouldn't be leaving here until March 3rd. WTF!!!!!!! I won't lie, I was pretty upset. I sure felt like my wife deceived me! The year before I said 2 weeks maximum for a visit. They squeezed 3 weeks out of me. I expected 3 weeks this year. Yes, that is most certainly deception. I continued spot spraying for weeds. As said previously, quiet work with lots of time to think. The male penguin is pretty far gone. He's had Parkinson's disease for many years now. He can't hardly walk, and he can't hardly talk. I do feel bad for him. I'm real sure his days are numbered. The female penguin must have thought long, and hard, about the E-mails I sent her 3 years ago when they were here. For the most part, ("most part", those are funny words.) she does clean up after herself this year. I don't think you all have heard me say one thing about crumbs this year. Thank you, Dear Lord, baby Jesus, 7 lbs. 6 ozs!!! So, I guess I'm stuck with them until March 3rd. How many more days? 14
Sounds like you have been PENGUINED again. Kind of like the movie ground hog day except with Penguins..
Waterboy- While working on my winter project, a pop machine, I thought of your plight of the brother in law drinking your beer from a few pages back. Buy yourself a pop machine and charge 0.50 a can. Keep some quarters in your pocket that you took out of the coin box but don’t give your B-I-L any, make him pay. When he leaves just get a “ free vend” jumper and you don’t have to deal with the quarters until he comes back.
In the south, that’s a Coke machine. I know it says Pepsi on it, which means it’s a Coke machine that dispenses Pepsi products. It would likely be ignored if a Coke machine with Coke in it was nearby. Patrick
This is my actual Coke machine. Up in my area it is a pop machine, soda is an ingredient you bake with not something you drink. When my relatives from Florida would come up and visit, they would ask for a "Coke" even though they wanted a 7up. How do you figure out what people really want to drink down there???
Simple! You ask ‘whut kina Coke y’ont? There’s Meller Yeller, Dr. Pepper, Spriiite, Mountain Dew…’ Patrick
When I was a kid in Massachusetts, the older natives called "soda" "Tonic." I usually say soda or I will refer to the Drink by it's proper name - Pepsi, Coke, Ginger Ale, etc.
Waterboy has gone silent! Have the Penguins over powered him and have him locked in a closet? (without beer). Has he gone into deep depression? Has he left for Virginia and has no internet? Has he drowned his sorrows in all the beer in Palm Beach? Do we need to do an intervention? Asking for a friend.
I think he would turn green and come busting out of the closet as the Incredible Hulk after about 15-minutes.
It is odd he hasn't responded, has he even been on the forum lately? I am sure there is a way to find out I just don't know how. Praying that the "male penguin" didn't take a turn for the worse and he is busy dealing with that.
He's OK. I texted with him today. Telling part of the conversation was that he said he had to go cause he needed another beer. So he is good.
