It was over 90 degrees at 9:30 am in South Florida.

• Feels like fall - ER MT
  • It was over 90 degrees at 9:30 am in South Florida. - Send cold air PLEASE!!!
  • Iowa feels like fall too! - Apple Scruff
  • Central California . . . - Mimi
  • Oh yes, so nice this morning to breath - ss
    • Upstate NY - ER MT
      • ER MT have you been to Lake George? - ss
        • Yes sm - ER MT
          • I'll have to stop in and say Hi next time - ss
            • Point Pleasant - ER MT
              • The Point Pleasant boardwalk is fun - ss
      • Upstate NY? - Lee
        • sm - ER MT
          • me too - upstater
          • another upstate NYer - missing home
          • 'Nother downstate NY MT here, in Dutchess county. Apple - pie season is upon us! :) NM
    • From Southern NJ here - mt
  • This is definitely my time of year. (SM) - Me too!

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and due to the multi-multi ethnic groups here - MULTITUDES of different groups - we have it all in the supermarkets....

You never had chopped liver?  Never eaten chicken livers and onions together just fried up?  Never had chicken livers wrapped in bacon and then cooked?  Ramaki's I think they are called (can't remember)....

The Argentinians I just read eat twice as much beef as Americans....not a good thing...*lol*

Hasn't rained in the past 3 days, frogs were singing some' fierce last night, so I know storms will be here at some point today! 

Our kids were dismissed early last Thursday because of afternoon snow showers (better to be safe than sorry).  They also decided before sending them home on Thursday to close on Friday due to expected cold temperatures.  Temps were the same as today, yet we go to school today.  I don't get it.  We were off Monday for an in-service day, but they always schedule that on King day.  So why be off Friday but not today?  I'm guessing some higher-ups wanted a 4-1/2-day weekend.

Back in my day (I'm 34), we went to school unless it snowed 2 feet or we got an ice storm.  We never got off because it was "too cold".  I asked the school secretary about this, who's close to my age, and she agreed about "our day" and said she thinks it has to do with so many parents letting their kids stand at the bus stops for 1/2 hour or more because they don't want to get dressed and drive them to the bus stop and not dressing the kids properly.  She said you wouldn't believe the number of kids she sees at school dressed in shorts, etc, in the middle of winter.  We live in the Northeast, so it's not like we expect it to be warm this time of year. 

I just will never understand some parents.  I drive my kids to school every day even though they're on the bus route.  The busses are just too cold in the morning and they'd have to get up 1/2 hour earlier and we already get up at 7:15 to be at school by 8.  I let them ride the bus home in the afternoon because the buses are warmed up 1/2 hour from picking up the high schoolers first and my kids are only on the bus for 15 minutes.  I also make sure my kids have hat, gloves and scarves when it's cold.  They don't always wear 'em, but they're in their backpacks if they need them.  Why don't some parents care?

Sorry -- off my soapbox.  This was just s'posed to be about the weather.   It's cold here -- BRRRRR

Hi All,

I live in South Florida and I am new to MT Stars.  Anybody else from Florida?

Always something to do and the weather was beautiful...

I'm in Florida, and it is me, my husband, our 2 kids (son 7 and daughter 11), and my father-in-law, and I swear my FIL, who is 5Ǝ" and 158 lbs, eats more than my husband, who is 6Ɖ" and 345 lbs. FIL had to have a feeding tube put in last July, and I had to cut down meals by half because we were having so many leftovers and wasting money. Just when I thought I had it figured out, he was able to get the tube removed, so I'm back to making meals for an army. I just wish I had his metabolism as he just does not seem to gain weight and even had to go on high-calorie Ensure when he had the feeding tube to gain weight. I shudder to think of what my grocery bill will be when my son hits puberty  I don't buy stuff for lunches here at home as we (FIL and I) will just eat a sandwich or leftovers from the fridge

As far as special foods, we don't really buy anything out of the ordinary. I buy frozen vegetables instead of canned unless it is for a recipe, and for a while we were buying meat at a butcher shop but have had to cut that out for now. It was really good but was close to DH's work, and if he couldn't pick it up while he was in the area, it was a 45-minute drive. I cook most things from scratch, except lasagna because I hate making it. Once a month, we have a luncheon at church that I bring a dish and a dessert, and I cook Wednesday night dinner there one night per month, but I get reimbursed for the Wednesday night dinner. I do include paper products and toiletries in with my grocery budget but that's it, and I usually go to Sam's once a month for those.

I have it easy compared to my parents though. My dad got paid once a month, and there were 4 kids at home all the time, 5 when my sister came up during the summer. They used to have 3 grocery carts slap full of food, and my mom figured out that it took something like 18 boxes of cereal to last a month, each one with a date marked on it so we didn't go through them too quickly. And to keep my brother from using a mixing bowl and a serving spoon to eat cereal  We also had a freezer to keep extra bread and other things, and my mom also used to mix in powdered milk when the gallon was half-way gone. I never knew until I was grown, so she definitely blended it well.

about the little girl (Caylee) that's been missing for five weeks and her mom (Caycee) is in jail?  i'm watching the court stuff that's going on.  they are going to decide if she should get bail or not.  i've seen some interviews with Caycee's mom (Cindy) on the news, and she is a witch.  Cindy is on the stand right now and i just think the whole thing seems suspicious.  Cindy claims that Caycee has had this babysitter for three years and used to take Caylee to her and the mom has never once met the babysitter?  i think that sounds weird. 

anyway, it's interesting and I sure hope the little girl is still alive.