Baldwin.. to answer your e-mail... we're headed for the Ft Lauderdale area, 1st.. gonna rent, while we look for a place to buy......It'll take a while for this native CAL guy to get used to daytime humidity, but, I looooove tropical nights..!

bumpy, i know some available apartments at kings point adult community in Ft. Lauderdale... they're just dyin' to have you come stay!!!

and if you're not interested in that, I do have some choice parcels of prime everglades swamp available... if ya' don't mind some crocadile tears...

gators are spooky at night as their eyes reflect the beam from my flashlight, then the little light goes off saying, I wonder if there are any gators behind me.....you can keep Florida nights, I will stay in the mountains where we only have bears and mountian lions.

Good luck with the move...

I had a bear in my yard this morning.(100% true) I told him to go away, and he did, but not before he looked over his shoulder at me as if to say "What are you gunna do about it if I don't?". These New Jersey bears have attitude. I think they watch "The Sopranos".
I'm just thankful that I don't watch "Jackass", because if I did I might have tried to teach that bear a lesson.

Thanks, Cheryl...just to clariffy....Bill, the patriarch of the Connor family & Nanna's son, retired, last June..... he & his daughter, Betty Colleen, ( yea, just a wee bit Irish), vacationed, in the FLA Gold Coast, last year & loved it, so Bill asked me to go with them...between the relative urbanity of FLA...( Ukiah is a great little town, but, heavy on the "little"), the tropical weather, and the company of the Connors, it sounds like a great adventure. In no way am I disenchanted, with my beloved Northern Calif Coast....and, w/ a 56 year old West coast bias... FLA is still the land of big bugs and hanging chads, to me...(or, is that hanging bugs & big chads???) So, until Plymouth, Montserrat is rebuilt, after the volcano oooooze, FLA may be a fun 2nd home.....I promise I won't pick up a Southern accent, though....marbles are for shooting, not for placing in the mouth, before speaking...y'alll!

Cool, Arnie....now, if King's Point has a putting green, pool table, and/or ping pong table, I can cover the rent spread, for the whole Connor clan & me, every month....Todd would know, immed, what the heck I'm talkin' bout!! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/lookout.gif" width=15 height=15>

bumper, there arent any southerners in florida...just a bunch of retired yankees....the only accent you can pick up there is 'newyorkese'...

as for where your marbles are....well....i plead the 5th!

Bumper: Tell that to Leon Russel...He sings with marbles in his mouth!

I agree with Sherry. Almost everyone in the south feels Florida is a northern state, regardless of it's geographic location.

I thought Florida was full and people were now being diverted to the Carolinas. How did Bumper get in?

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At 135, it's easy to slip by the guards...

Sorry, Bump; I have to agree that if you think you're going to the South, think again!

I once saw a native of Florida, way back in the swamps, but by now I bet he has been ran over by some 90 year old woman with a red caddy. The speed limit in Flordia starts at 75MPH and that is in the school zones.

Shelly and Jay, thank you so much for my trip to the church, it was wonderful and I enjoyed seeing all the folks honoring Todd, I guess it's time to open the F***ing Present.......Thanks, you are guys are wonderful.