George, I still live in Ohio...I get down to the Fort Myers Beach area fairly often. I have driven through Ralph's neck of the woods a couple of times.
Ralph, Having been down in Chokoloskee and fishing 30 miles south of even that isolated village on the Gulf I can relate to remote Florida Everglades Wilderness. It's pretty cool.... but you're kinda of on your own once you get there.
Ralph, we shop heb twice a week for fruit (just picked up some peaches saturday in fact). If you let me know when they ship out I'll make sure to get some.
Say Ralph are you participating the Florida Python Challenge? I like the description of how to capture one, ...sneak up behind them and jump on them and grab the head before it can turn and bite you or start wrapping around you. Or as an alternate you can shoot it or hack it to death with a machete. I know which one I'm choosing.
LOL, no reported damage in Coral Gables, maybe a little more rain than needed. I can feel the warmth of your inquiry way down deep into my soul.. Speaking of Gables the university did purchase Mark Richt a new automobile for his local recruiting trips in the area, they wanted something that displays his new status...
I sure will, it's going to be late March into April at this point before they hit the stores, then it should last about six weeks. HEB has one heck of a produce area, at least the stores I have seen and they are very well respected in the grocery business..I wish it wasn't such a pain to mail the peaches because I could save everyone a few bucks. My next new planting of something I've never grown before commercially is Persian limes, we may be a bit to cool for them as they are very cold sensitive. But when I mentioned my prospective planting to the grocery chains they all said they would buy everyone I have, I can't get the 30 acre block planted fast enough...Besides a man needs a lime for his mixed drink at times.. As for the python challenge Terry I think I will stick to gators, snakes don't bother me but the idea of dealing with a snake that big does not sound very fun. Plus they want you to bring it back alive for research, if I skip along the woods and trip over a snake that big its head is coming off...
Ralphie, you live right where a good portion of the novel " A Land Remembered " was set. That was an excellent book. On the map it looks like I am due east and south of you about 100 miles. Sometime when we are all there at the same time we could rendevous at The Villages for some beers and nude coed bocce ball. :shock:
. I like their produce a lot more than the other groceries in this area. The only thing that compared was a Harmon's back in Utah that I liked. Harmon's had a lot more "exotic" produce, but the variety of "normal" produce at HEB is really good, and the quality of it is usually as good as the farmer's markets. Both are a bit more expensive, but quality produce is definitely worth it.
Just watched "Gladiator" with Russell Crowe as Maximus. If he had a car.... THAT would be the one! LOL
Late answer to an earlier Florida question ... I'm near Gainesville, and my Mother is still in Jupiter where we grew up. She said a tornado was in Hobe Sound during that early Sunday morning storm. So that sounds like a close call for George. Where my Mother is in Jupiter Farms was just a strong storm that shook her windows. She was very happy that she had just had the tree guys out to take down some dead/weak pines near the house.
Watch him Wendy he keeps asking about the python hunt but he's not volunteering to hold the bag for anybody catching one...
So ... do I need to catch the largest snake, or just present the largest snake? I could grab your average decent sized Boa, lock it in the shed for 6 months and feed it stray dogs, then present my giant snake for the prize. I'm in Animal sciences - fattening things up for harvest is my game.
OH MY....You are one of THOSE graduates from UF who are still experimenting, run for the hills....... Do you teach at UF? If you do I am actually asking for favors for my son since the pre-paid is used up.... 8) Regardless beware of Terry, he is much too happy to have us catching snakes that don't belong here in the first place...
By the way as a country boy I approve of your thought process of fattening your snake....Possums are pretty much all fat and would facilitate the process..