A Cautionary Tale About Frogs…
I’m not ashamed to admit it – I was once naive in the ways of the common green frog, led to believe that they’re all cute and laid-back and slimy in a fun-loving, hoppy kind of way...
Just Another Death-Defying Day at the Beach
There’s always something lurking out there in the depths, just waiting to get ya. Here in the Gulf of Mexico on the Florida coast if it’s not sharks, it’s flesh-eating bacteria. And ...
Behind the Process: Nobody Ever Won a Pulitzer at the Beach…
I know it’s really, really nice outside. I know that I could use a break, and we’ll only be gone for a few hours. I know that the sand between my toes would feel just wonderful right about ...
What I Did on My Summer Vacation – Homemade Potato Farm Edition
At least apples and oranges have the decency to grow hanging on trees in plain sight, but so many vegetables grow underground or out of sight – who knows what they’re doing when they’re down the...
Aloe is a Stupid Man’s Best Friend
Yeah, yeah – you can probably see where this one’s going before I even get started… So as you can probably discern from the lovingly flattering photo, yours truly got burned recently, and not so...
It’s a Jungle Out There…
I’ve written about this a time or two before, but we’re going to go over everything again this week one more time because frankly I’m not quite sure everyone took seriously enough my warnings of...
The Day the Earth Stood Sweating
Let’s play a game, folks! It’s just a little something I’ve cooked up in my spare time lately called Things You Never Want to Hear in Florida … in July, and it goes a little something like t...
Scott’s Top Ten Rules of Summer
Wow – this one’s certainly flying by fast, now isn’t it? As they say, if there’s but one bad thing about summer, it’s simply that it just always seems to zip by way too fast! The seemingly e...