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The beautiful little dogwoods, each about the size
of nickel were designed by a well known
North Carolina copper jewelry designer, Stuart Nye, and made under his supervision. It is a sweet and nostalgic piece to own. It is priced at $95.00 so if you want it just call me and I will send it on it's way to some lucky "Tarheel". |
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To
say we feel we have been living in a refrigerator all of this "new"
year is an understatement. I
ventured
out on Sunday
mid-day
after noticing, -while out communing with Shelly, that the
neighbor's
sprinkler
system was running full blast and I knew
there would be some nice Florida icicles nearby.
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As I walked next
door I noticed some unusual ice formations on my own plants,
and I don't have a
sprinkler. What I initially thought was some kind of cotton blown onto my Firecracker plant was frozen plant juice which had formed as the stem had ruptured in the cold and slowly extruded moisture to form this frost-like Italian ice sculpture around some of the stems. |
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My neighbor, on the other
hand, had an icy winter wonderland which we don't get to
experience
very often here in North
Florida.
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I had waited
until it was actually above freezing before I thought about the ice but
it was still pretty
impressive although the icicles were starting to fall off right in front of my eyes. |
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Now these were
pretty impressive icicles by anyone's standards hanging down
from the Live Oak which is now part of Miss Shelly's habitat. She hangs out in this area more than my yard now. |
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The ice actually
protects the plants and may be why the neighbors had left it
on. It insulates them
at the 32 degrees it takes to form the ice, and then slows any further temperature declines. |
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Tonight
I look forward to not having the
urge to hibernate as temperatures will finally bottom out above
the usual night time freezing zone we have been stuck in for a while. No use mowing, just break the grass off instead! |
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Fearing the
coldest temperatures of the entire time on Monday night I decided to
pick my lemon crop rather than take a chance. Yes those are lemons, Ponderosa Lemons, to be exact. Larger than any grapefruit I have seen. I must get them squeezed so that I don't let all that juice go to waste. With the cold spell thankfully over by the end of the week, what do I do but make a plane reservation to fly to East Tennessee on Sunday for a long overdue visit with my mom and Aunt Helen? It will be good to see them after almost a year even though I don't look forward to going back into winter one little bit. They have promised the loan of some long underwear to keep me warm with a high of 42 waiting for my arrival. I am thankful to look at the long range forecast and see that it will be my coldest day there with a warm up for them coming also. |