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Holidays Travel

Saturday Morning Shenanigans

Pinch-hitting this morning for ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ – which has been postponed until a later date (possibly during Thanksgiving Week in Allen Texas) – it’s the return of the ‘Saturday Morning Shenanigans’.

Recently (during the week leading up to the 4TH Of July) me and my brother went to San Antonio Texas for 4 days and 3 nights. He actually went there on business, and I tagged along for fun. While he was working for his company at an expo at the Convention Center I was hanging out on the River Walk. Back on the 2ND of July I posted a special on-location edition of ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ from the River Walk. It was a lot of fun, and I’m looking forward to returning there soon.

We had an interesting southward view from our off-the-River-Walk hotel room. Straight out in the background was the 750-foot Tower Of The Americas. It was actually dwarfed by a much shorter hotel that was obviously closer to our hotel than the tower. Oh yeah – there was one other major object within our view from our hotel room – the mother of all Denny’s signs that was so MASSIVE and so bright (at night) that we could have used its light by itself to read a book from inside our room. It instantly became the running gag of our entire vacation there. My brother recalled a classic 1996 episode of ‘Seinfeld’ entitled ‘The Chicken Roaster’ in which Kramer is bothered by a MASSIVE red neon Kenny Rogers Roasters sign that beams directly into his apartment (and of course hijinks ensue).

San Antonio Texas - Hotel Room View - Looking South
San Antonio Texas - Hotel Room View - Looking South
Denny's - Zoomed-In Sign
Zoomed-In Sign
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Weather

Homestead Cold Weather Alert

I actually wasn’t planning to issue a ‘Cold Weather Alert’ for this upcoming chill because previous models indicated that it wouldn’t be cold enough to do so. Now it appears that it will actually be colder than originally thought; therefore, I issue you this alert.

Get ready for a bunch of frigid mornings here in Homestead on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and possibly even into next weekend. I’m talking about early-morning (before 8 AM) temperatures down into the lower-50s with wind-chills down into the mid-40s !  The afternoons will actually be on the warm side – but definitely cooler than they have been recently.

As a general rule (since there appears to be interest in this) I will issue these ‘Cold Weather Alerts’ here on the big green blog whenever I expect upcoming wind-chill temperatures to fall into the 40s and beyond. We must all keep in mind that during these wintertime cold snaps there can be a wide disparity of early-morning temperatures. At the same exact time that it can be in the upper-40s here in Homestead it can also be in the mid-60s up along the beaches from South Beach northward. The weather forecasts on our local television and radio stations generally average these temperatures out for the entire viewing region.

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Blogging

Friday Night Blogroll Review

It’s ON !

Travis is saying goodbye to Paul and Annie.

Paul blogged for the first time in over 5 months to announce that he, Annie, and the kids are leaving Life Pointe Church, Homestead, and Florida.

Jesse reveals how a typical day goes for him and his familia.

Phil loves dogs.

Blake loves to help himself to a meal of cold fried chicken.

So yeah Ritz is all like ‘I can’t wait to get these braces off next month YO !

Rebecca is experimenting with assorted food combinations to see what happens.

Homestead Is Home presented a cool article from the Miami Herald on Alabama Jacks.

Keep Blogging !

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Animals Blogging Weather

Blatant Promotion

TOMORROW on the big green blog that recycles it’s the best of the best in blogging action from this past week via the ‘Friday Night Blogroll Review’. Then on Saturday morning ‘The Major’s Walk-A-Thon’ returns to the neighbourhood for what could be an uncomfortably warm and sweaty walk.

Before the great chill arrives early this Sunday morning it could get rather toasty here in Homestead with overnight lows only in the mid-70s and daytime highs approaching the upper-80s !  Then get ready for more normal weather for mid-November in Homestead as mid-afternoon temperatures peak in the mid-70s and early-morning temperatures dip down into the cool and refreshing 50s !  The cooler and more normal weather should stick around for awhile too.

OK back to the blog. I’ll be serving up your ‘Saturday Night Retro’ in less than 48 hours, and I’m gonna share with you a final good-bye to an entire nation from exactly 21 years ago this weekend in 1987.

I’ve got all of that and a whole lot more for you during this upcoming weekend, so stick around my friends. You won’t regret it pal.

Until I come back on here with the ‘Blogroll Review’ enjoy this classic picture of my childhood cat Fluffy. Me and my brother found the Fluffmeister back in December 1983 when I was 16 and my brother was 8. This picture is from the late-1990s, and an aging Fluffy is sitting on the living room couch reading the local newspapers and watching her favourite television shows.

Fluffy The Manx Cat
Fluffy The Manx Cat