First short observations from Florida

1. It is very HARD to run in the Florida summer heat (even if the sun hasn't come up yet). It's like running underwater and breathing through a bad regulator on an almost-empty tank.

2. There's a whole world of bugs I've never seen in my life...and probably would have preferred never to see.

3. Gators are cool, and we've seen them 4 out of 5 times while running...little ones. I'm sure my awe will have the edge of fear when I see a big one.

4. I'm more worried about the poisonous snakes we'll see out when the weather cools...cottonmouth rattlers, coral snakes and water moccasins...YIPPEE! Which one is the bad, red on black, yellow on black, white on red? I don't know, but we need to find out.

5. I probably should be more worried about the poisonous frogs. I'm sure they're the pretty ones we see. Cody picked up a slimey one because he didn't want to hit it with the mower. Oh my, we better do some research.

6. There's a lot of hoops you have to jump through to get ANYTHING done in Florida.

7. It's very crowded here but we managed to find a quiet spot.

8. I already got bawled out by the garage men. That was fun. Of course, I stopped feeling bad that they had to lift our broken honey bucket into the back. (Yeah, the movers LOVED that! They thought we had moved some toxic waste and were scared and outraged. Then their driver got to give them no end of crap when Stan walked out, stuck his finger in it and put it in his mouth.)

9. Southern folks sure know how to razz each other.

10. Yeah, we're definitely not in Utah anymore...