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Our area (Okeechobee) got hit pretty hard by the rear eyewall, we were 30 miles from the center of the eye (eye was 55 miles in diameter), but we were very lucky and had minimal damage (knocked out a screen on the wrap-around porch, tore up a screen door, plus lots of trees and 1 fence down)...

When we first moved in, I was really worried about our "city folk" neighbors, but after talking to some of the other neighbors in the past couple of days, I've found out that they truly are the laughingstock of the neighborhood. I guess I just don't understand people who don't appreciate the...

I grew up in a small farming community, went to college in a big city, and then spent many years working to be able to afford to get back out to the country. As a child (and young adult), I thought my older relatives that had lived through the Great Depression were a bit fanatical about food...

Dad calls his place White Oak Hollow -- he lives in the hollow next to White Oak creek. We call our new place in Florida, Mystic Hammock. The house is built in the middle of a hammock and it's dark and mysterious in there. Ann B

I drive an '03 Sonoma 4X4, it'll be 2 years old in Feb, and it has over 47,000 miles on it. Ann B

Glad to hear you came it through it okay. Wind in Okeechobee was 137 mph. We've been told that we also only lost a few shingles, although we also have trees down all over the place. One tree, a 60 ft pine, laid over almost parallel to the house -- just a few more feet and it would have taken the...

That is weird!! But then isn't that lake real shallow? Ann B

It's my fault -- has to be. We've started moving. The year I moved to Nebraska was the worst year for snow in many years -- it snowed so much so fast that they cancelled Halloween. Seems like anytime I move to a new area, the area gets hit by freak weather. So yeah, it's my fault. Ann B

I must admit, I used to get upset that everybody thought that hubby was the one doing it all. But as the years have went by, I've come to be amused by it more than anything. People calll and ask for him, I give him the phone and it ends up right back to me --they either want a cow bred or are...

You forgot -- already has been found, but is known by another name. The Minoan culture meets practically all of the points necessary to have been the Atlantean culture. And their island blew up and sunk beneath the Mediterranean at just about the time Plato's writtings say that Atlantis sunk...

Anybody notice that you couldn't tell male runners from female runners? Not even if they were facing the camera -- the females had no breasts. I guess that explains why "true" vegetarians don't have kids. Has anybody else noticed that? Have any of you ever known a vegetarian that had...

My Mom claimed that instead of 72 virgins it was ONE 72 year old virgin!!

Almost afraid to show this one to hubby -- we have 6 cats.

Heck, the only time the French have been happy with us was when we ran the Nazi's out of the Parisian coffee shops! Ann B

Congratulations! We have a grandson who just turned 3 and were just told a couple of days ago, that the little guy is going to have a new brother or sister in January! I LOVE being a GRANDMA! If I had known that grandkids were this much fun, I'd have had them first!! Ann B

Personally, I would much rather see a girl Ellie's age devoting her time and energies to animals, instead of falling into the pitfalls and temptations that kids her age can easily get into. Once you fall into it, it's really hard to get your life back on track again. I would have been much...

He was put in office by a Supreme Court decision -- not by the election. Al Gore had the votes, Bush didn't. Ann B

Well for one thing, he was not the duly elected President. For another, he and Cheney have been too involved with "Big Oil", their loyalties reflect it. Neither one understands the common person. But he was also left with a total mess in the Middle East by his predecessors, and he stepped up...

Well, I've said it before, I don't like George Bush. But I don't like any of the other choices either -- at this point, IMO, the election will come down to a choice between the lessor of 2 evils. But at least Bush is a KNOWN evil! Mr Kerry seems to be a much scarier prospect. Ann B