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Do you miss the snow or the mess under the tree

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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby (Post 1916096)

The Villages is lovely, honestly. But I still have days when I really miss the north.

So here's a picture of my old back yard.

The tree in the forefront is my "mama maple." One of her "children" is directly behind her to the right, there are five more of her kids behind the fence. The blue-grey square next to her is the facade of our compost heap. The spikes sticking up in a circle around her I call LogHenge, it's a sculpture design I created with upended logs from trees we took down on our property, antique bricks we found mostly in our back yard (the entire town was the #1 source of bricks in the country when it was first settled in the 1700's), some boulders, and an antique white enamel sink we found in the back yard that I put on an old park bench and made a planter out of it.

Mama maple is around 250 years old. Ours were all sugar maples.

There are plenty of beautiful Spanish Oaks all through this area. If you are missing the mess under the pretty tree, that's why we have ARC and other restrictions, as I'm wondering if what's not in the picture is a pickup on blocks. If you're missing the snow, after 40 years of shoveling blowing 100+ inches a year, you are certainly in the minority. I imaging many snowbirds would gladly let you occupy their home in January / February for a nice rent reduction when they stay in your place here .. Snow is prettier and easier to manage when looked at in pictures

I refuse to live anywhere palm trees will not grow and the sun does not shine most of the time.

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Originally Posted by thelegges (Post 1919540)

It was 25 to 35 degrees for ten days. Snow was beautiful, on the 11 day temp went to 60, snow melted, grass looked pathetic, we flew back, to TV.
Love the fall when leaves start to drop, then after 8 bags, call the lawn company to finish. Hoping we have a long ways to go before we can’t enjoy winter toys.

Our town had curbside leaf pickup 2x each Autumn. No bags necessary. Hubby used the leafblower, I used the rake. Pile it up at the curb, then I climbed onto the pile at one end. Stomp my way to the other end to compact the pile. At the last bit, I turn around and lean back, arms stretched out wide and flop right down on the wonderful colorful crinkly leaf pile. It's my favorite time of year. Or was...

yeah, i think fall was my favorite season there, it meant we'd get fresh everything @ Lyman's Orchard's, or going over to stew leonard's to stock up for kids' halloween parties. there was just a nip in the air before winter was on the way again, but lovely sunsets

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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 1919700)

Fresh cider and hot donuts at the cider mills, was the trip after day of raking the multi color leaves. We have 6 mills within 20 minutes of house, each different due to the apples variety pressed, and the donut recipe. One was across the street from my hospital. On a bad day, someone would run over get 6 dozen donuts, and gallons of cider. Funny the things we miss.

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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 1919700)

When I worked in Hartford we played golf often at Lyman Orchards. Two beautiful 18 hole courses.

I miss the North less and less as time passes. I don’t tease family and friends when they are in snow up to their, well deep snow anyway. The Florida life is the one for me with only one drawback. Hurricanes! Up North we worried about NOTHING!

Yeah I miss all of that shoveling also. But honestly a cold crisp day in winter once in a while in Florida is okay. I enjoy when the trees change color even in Florida it's lovely. I enjoyed the best pizza in Chinese food in New Jersey and the fact that I could go to a shore even all year round being 10 minutes over the toms River bridge and have my own little walk on the boardwalk, have Rita's ices as well has all the small independent retailers that were n ot pushed out by big box stores

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Originally Posted by LiverpoolWalrus (Post 1919176)

I remember that. Snowmaggedon, right, JohnW? I was in MD and was so over it. I decided to move to FL long before that, but work in DC got in the way. Until 2011.

I was inside the Beltway working for snowmageddon. Closed everything down. Tried to make it home - made it as far as the Marriott by Andrews AFB..
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