Ingeborg Foco on wed 26 jan 05
William A. Sheppard wrote:
" Gosh it got colder here in Florida this week (33 degrees) than
it did last week. Somebody "up north there" left the freezer door open"
It has been a bit choosey here in SW Florida and the winds were howling to
make things worse. Since I have mostly screens and no windows it is, well,
plain cold. For me it's like working outside all day long and while I
haven't become a wimpy Floridian, I admit it is cold and dress accordingly.
I always know when tourist from Minnesota or Wisconsin come to my shop.
They are a hoot.
(are they "Minnesotans & Wisconsinites"?) First of all they tend to be
tall, handsome and
wholesome looking people with lots of blond hair and blue eyes. What really
sets them
apart from the Floridians they are visiting is the shorts and short sleeve
shirts they are
wearing. It is 30+ degrees and the wind is howling thru my breezeway but
they stand there in shorts and short sleeves pretending they are really
enjoying the
cold spell. Recently I was told that they can't wear a coat for fear of
becoming the butt
of a lot of jokes. Must be some sort of Nordic code.
It has been so cold here that even Wayne in Key West is freezing. In
retrospect, prior to settling on a place we should have followed the old
cruising rule: Sail south until the butter
melts and then turn. I guess we turned too soon.:)
Ingeborg
the Potter's Workshop & Gallery
P.O. Box 510
3058 Stringfellow Road
St. James City, Florida 33956
239-283-2775
Bill Karaffa on thu 27 jan 05
I'm sitting here in northern Wisconsin. I have a digital thermometer with an
outside sensing unit. At -25F it stops reading and says OF for operation
failure but I know what it really means.
Bill Karaffa
Firemouth Pottery and Gallery
http://fp1.centurytel.net/karaffa
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