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  • Seating arrangements

    Who hasn't been to a Thanksgiving Dinner where the seating is intricately planned?

    Once or twice I remember having to wear name tags, too.

    Who sits where?
    But you never need reminders to remember who isn't there.

    Sometimes you have your best conversations with them, too, [...]
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  • Wednesday Thanksgiving?

    Remember that year Thanksgiving fell on a Wednesday?

    Wasn't that the same year it snowed in Naples, too?

    Thanksgiving forecast for Naples Florida
    calls for a high of 70° and low of 56°
    Joking aside, something very notable is forecast to occur this Thanksgiving Day. For the first time' [...]
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  • Winter is here! (Definitions may vary)

    Winter doesn't simultaneously arrive to Florida on one date.

    It varies depending on how far south on the peninsula you live.

    North Floridians use
    the 60° line to mark
    the start of fall
    Take for instance Tundra-bound Tallahassee:

    The long-term average daily nighttime temperature drops below' [...]
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  • Another sign fall has ended

    Around Thanksgiving
    is finally when the cypress
    turn needle-free,

    Thus beginning winter in the swamp
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  • Florida orange juice club

    As you can see on the animated chart below,

    November marks the first month of Florida's winter citrus season.

    "Get 'em while they're ripe!"
    Florida oranges are particularly good for juicing.

    In comparison, California oranges are rather dry.

    [...]
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  • "Apples, move over!"

    Florida oranges are
    acclaimed around the world
    (even among Californians*) to
    be the very best * According to an unscientific survey [...]
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  • Citrus crop signals fall's end

    I've been struggling for the past few weeks trying to refine my understanding of Florida fall.  (By normal continental standards, there are many who say it doesn't exist.) Just as I was getting some clarity ...

    I walk into the grocery store and see this:

    Florida Navels are [...]
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  • Puny tractor trailers

    East of Monroe Station
    looking south
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  • Ghost farmers in the sky?

    Swamp buggies sort of resemble tractors ...

    But the days of farming The Big Cypress are long gone.

    Now you see them ... Yes, the furrows appear visible from the sky.

    But from ground level you'd swear they weren't there.

    Now you don't Sometimes you have to' [...]
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  • Swamp Trail

    Looking west down the Tamiami Trail
    Can you see Monroe Station?
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