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LOOKED UP death of Florida cuttus industry

What caused the death of the orange industry in Florida:

Citrus canker and 4 hurricanes in 2 years…

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Catch up

​What I did today instead of Doom Scrolling (or watching the Idiot speak in TV):

• *Made pancakes
  
• *Prepped tax returns 
  
• *Changed sheets on the bed and took a nap
  
• *Watched a couple episodes of Survivor 35 (from 9 years ago) 
  
• *Downloaded and started book 3 of Dungeon Crawler Carl series
  

What made you happy this week 

• Peter surviving a car crash. 
  
• Sean taking lead in insurance and getting Peter. 
  
• Peter working through his emotions quickly — tough surly and manipulative for a couple days. 
  
• How much Peter loves school. 
  
• A couple days with friends playing games and not thinking about everything else. 
• Finishing the book Remarkable Bright Creatures.
  

Been awhile since I posted. I was cutting back severely on screen time. Work has ramped up. Peter crashed and the resulting emotional freak out from him, plus dealing with car and insurance (handled 95% by Sean, thank god) kinda got in the way. 

LOOKED UP: bathroom remodel

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What made me happy this week?

​What made me happy this week?

• getting house better organized: garage, linen closet, bedside shelves, kitchen
  
• getting a bunch of personal tax stuff taken care of
  
• getting to know our new town better: thrift store shopping, library event, theater, walks around two different lakes
  
• anticipation of more boardgaming finally again: got set up once again to play Terraforming Mars online, received invitations to two in-person gaming events, and looking forward to seeing old friends at an event next weekend
• Time with Peter
• Time with Sean
• Earning more money

Valentines Day Adventure: Birding and Thrift store shopping

For a fun valentines adventure, we took a birdwatching class at the local library. Learned about the Backyard Bird Count. Walked around part of Lake Morton and saw swans (both white and black!), mandarin ducks, mallard ducks, Muscovy ducks, ring-necked ducks, a limpkin, a small blue heron, a Great Blue Heron in a nest in a tree!, an osprey in the sky, many cormorants and anahingas (and we learned to tell the difference between the two), a few palm warblers, many coots and moorhens (and we learned to tell the difference between the two), one big pelican, and loads of ring-billed seagulls on vacation from the ocean. 

​Readers, today we also did not buy a $3600 gilt 7-foot-tall mirror decorated with cherubs. We figured out where it could go in the house, but we have other plans for any money that large.Did not take photo. Imagine its glorious ostentatiousness in your mind!

We had a fun Valentines morning walking through several antique/thrift shops. Spent a whopping $9 on a boardgame and two plastic skull glasses.

Other things we did not buy:

Is it an actual Joan Moro print? I may go back some day and see if it’s still there. 

The T-Rex shirt is too big for my daughter, too small for my husband. Maybe I should’ve bought it for ME?! Another reason to go back. 

We keep saying we need one of these doggy buggies for our dog but we felt this is a leeetle too small.