Florida is known for Miami, Disney, Gators, Voting Controversy, and especially our WARM temperatures.
Florida is NOT known for frost, ice, cold temps, and all the other evils you normal mortals not blessed enuf to live here have to deal with.
We lucky bastards living in “The Kingdom of the Sun” (That’d be Marion County) are all wondering one thing: “Where’s the HEAT?”
It’s COLD! It’s so damn cold I had to go start the van in the morning to melt the ice and warm it up 15 minutes before the Other Half (She Who MUST Be Obeyed) left for work.
Granted, back in West Point I had to deal with snow, and that evil white stuff ain’t here….yet.
Local radio Wind-FM’s morning DJ’s Hunter and Dixon sum it up best with this song.
This has been around a while, but while I was listening to a Christmas special out in Manland (the Garage) they played “Wizards in Winter,” by Trans-Siberian Orchestra, which I *MUST*ALWAYS* turn up. After an
exhaustive air-guitar session, I remembered that there was a video to it, of a man’s house with lights sync’d to the music. Wizards in Winter continued…
As some of you may have read, I like clocks. Old clocks, the older the better. I usually manage to collect mid to late 19th century wind up or weight driven clocks. There is something to be learned from the simpler way of life that prevailed when these keepers of time were shiny and new.
We take pride here at LTSO.com in our punctuality. Actually, it’s more of a lack of punctuality. Given that Halloween was last month, I should have posted this then.
This is a clock we got a while back at auction. It was listed as an Ingraham mantle clock, yet it says Plymouth on the dial. The case is structurally sound, the finish isn’t all that bad, but it’s not great either. Brass could use some cleaning, but I generally sell my finds in “as found” condition, cosmetically. I just make ‘em run, but I don’t touch the cases except for some light (ie: dirt removal) cleaning. It’s a Frankenclock… continued…
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