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The Unbearable Heat

I have lived in Florida for 39 years. The heat doesn't bother me until now. It is 99 degrees today with a heat index of 114 so imagine working outside on the yard and the house.

We got an HOA notice that we need to keep our flower beds and yard up. yeah right. I am window washing and painting this weekend. they are lucky my yard looks as good as it does.

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Freeranger · M

As someone who lives free and easy down the end of a long dirt road in the country, where a small border river is perfect for skinnydipping.....i cannot fathom living under an HOA whatever they think they are. Screw that.

If I wanna walk bollicky bare-ass around my property, have a large campfire and invite friends over......hell, host a damn pig-roast....no damn pasty white collective is going to tell me where and what to do.
I mean this with all sincerity, but buy a small plot of land and put your home on it. NO ONE has a right to tell you how to live. No one. That's not living.
Regards

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Freeranger i totally understand. I wish i could live outside of a HOA

Freeranger · M

@akindheart Well my friend, you have my deepest sympathies...and I get it. Your particular environment allows you a certain breadth, and you're doing your best to adapt to it. In a more perfect world, we would kick these buggers in to a gibbet, hoist them up a pole and leave them dangling over the entrance under a Jolly Roger flag.
But.....maybe it's just me.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Freeranger lol. you make me laugh!

exexec · 61-69, C

Over 100 again on the Texas coast, plus no rain for over a month. I try to water my plants enough to keep them alive, but my lawn can just die. I'm not wasting water on it.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@exexec we are absolutely deluged with rain. i have to mow every single week. then i got inundated with snails. all over the house

exexec · 61-69, C

@akindheart A plague of snails? That's a new one.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@exexec you should see them. they were crawling up my house. non stop lots.

Heartlander · 80-89, M

As I recall from my south Louisiana days, also perfect conditions for agitating those killer mosquitos :(

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Heartlander the county has not sprayed either. i get this big swampy lagoon behind my house. the only thing is that it attracts the Bufo toads who eats the bugs

jackrabbit10 · M

in 1957 .I lived not to far from Plant City Fla, I was 16 I think, worked on a farm growing Okra . the plat was head tall ,if you ever grew the stuff it will itch you good, the temp was all ways 99 ---100 deg, we worked 10 hrs. a days, yell I know how hot the Florida heat if, also humid

antonioioio · 70-79, M

I wish you could send some of it over here
It's very cold and wet 😊

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akindheart · 61-69, F

@antonioioio i saw most of southern Ireland. didn't go north but i loved it.

antonioioio · 70-79, M

@akindheart I live near the copper coast
Did you travel alone their?

akindheart · 61-69, F

@antonioioio i just saw this. i am sorry. yes i was alone. but i went with a tour group

Persephonee · 22-25, F

HOAs are revolting, microcosmic fascism, should be illega, and I wish you every ounce of good luck and patience in the world.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Persephonee sometimes i feel the same way!

HannahSky · F

Flowers are the least of the worries in FL

akindheart · 61-69, F

@HannahSky this is the hottest we have been in a long time.

HannahSky · F

@akindheart everywhere is roasting

heavyone2 · 61-69, M

Send em a hospital bill ..... that will shut em up.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@heavyone2 LOL. or the dumb ass award

SmoothKnight · 51-55, M

Same up here 🥵

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SmoothKnight · 51-55, M

@akindheart

I'm doing my best. Supposed to be 107° tomorrow and 109° Friday 🥵

akindheart · 61-69, F

@SmoothKnight whoa...we were at 114 last weekend~

SmoothKnight · 51-55, M

@akindheart

Wow 🤯....that's crazy

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akindheart · 61-69, F

@Slade you have to explain to me what just happened here. LOL

Slade · 56-60, M

@akindheart just had to swat away some nuisance 😈

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Slade lol. got it. you swat well

ravenwind43 · 51-55, F

Yikes! That is rough.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@ravenwind43 i almost had a heat stroke on the ladder.

SW-User

wish it was hot here

akindheart · 61-69, F

@SW-User we need some happy medium. not too hot, not too cold

ronisme1 · 61-69, M

It averaged 115 here in arizona for 3 weeks and i got the same notice. I would have to dump my pool onto the yard to keep it up

akindheart · 61-69, F

@ronisme1 you are dry heat right? not sure if that is better than the swampy air we have or what.

ronisme1 · 61-69, M

@akindheart for the most part, 105-108 degrees with chance of showers. It rained 2 days ago and cooled down to 109

akindheart · 61-69, F

@ronisme1 omg...109??? we got rain and it produced steam.

Slade · 56-60, M

https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/high-low-temps_figure3_2021.png

Barefooter25 · 46-50, M

When it comes to HOAs, you might as well be living in Nazi Germany.

MarineBob · 56-60, M

@Barefooter25 or get involved

akindheart · 61-69, F

@MarineBob they don't want me on...lol

MarineBob · 56-60, M

@akindheart they didn't want me either

Jeephikelove · 46-50, F

We’ve been hitting between 90°-95° up here and it’s humid, not as humid as you but gross enough.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@Jeephikelove yeah it makes everything sticky and wet. LOL. sounds sexual-didn't mean it that way!

sciguy18 · M

I would not live in Florida for any amount of money. I can’t deal with that humidity.

akindheart · 61-69, F

@sciguy18 yeah it is steamy.

MarineBob · 56-60, M

Time to run for a seat on the HOA

akindheart · 61-69, F

@MarineBob LOL. they won't have me. they know that i speak my mind. i have been pulling weeds a little at a time. my house is one of the nicest in the neighborhood