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93. It IS A Really Crazy Time! I No Longer Eat Fresh Strawberries Because...

Wed Mar 9, 2016, 10:33 PM

Mar 2016

of this time of year. Was partying all day long, lots of sun, sand, strawberries AND BEER! So many fresh strawberries & I wasn't very hungry and drinking beer I was happy. It was a mixture right out of HELL! Around 3:00 A.M. all of this must have fermented or something and I ended up spending the next 4 hours on my bathroom floor. If it didn't come up... it went out! Really did a number on me because this was about 20 years ago and to this day I've never eaten another fresh strawberry! But, don't let my story ruin it for you because Strawberry Festival Time is very, very popular. I live close to where everything strawberry happens!

We used to picks flats from the fields and make all kinds of "strawberry" things! I do still drink beer though!

I also live on the west coast and we STILL have Snow Birds who will soon start leaving after Easter. Snow Birds keep Florida's economy going even though people ALWAYS complain about them. If you've lived here long enough, you find out what's the best time of day to do certain things to avoid TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC!

My husband was born here and even though Florida politics drives me up the wall, I like the little community I live in where there ARE NO condominiums on the beach, and will probably never be! It's one of the older little enclaves between one smaller city and a larger one about 5 miles further up north. Has been a very Red County since I've lived her, but some things are changing because of the small colleges around.

I will say that there's been A LOT of Bernie events going on these days, which has really surprised me. He'll be in Tampa tomorrow, but I won't be able to go because of some back problems. Breaking my heart!

Still have my fingers crossed, but with DWS AND The Clinton Machine here, I'm not sure what kind of shenanigans will be going on. Just don't trust Hillary and even more DWS who is such a piece of work! Disgust at it's best!

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