Florida

Last Sunday’s accordion gig in Bonita Springs

It’s been over a year since I’ve played with Tom Hood’s band, the Tropical Sons. 2024 was an unusually busy…

2 months ago

Palm trees and a puffy vest

My friends in my old home town, Toronto, won’t find Tampa’s current temperatures cold, but by local standards, it’s downright frigid.…

3 months ago

Headline of the day

It would be even more funny and frightening is the transformation was going the other way. (By the way, here’s…

6 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #14: Good thing I didn’t put away the generator!

As Murphy’s Law would have it, moments after posting yesterday that I hadn’t yet put away our generator just in…

6 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #13: I haven’t put away the generator yet

Here’s “Lil’ Red,” a generator we bought from a friend of the family a few years back, which I have…

6 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #12: You don’t need a drone, just a pole and a phone!

Tap to view at full size. A day or two after Hurricane Milton tore its way through town, someone posted…

6 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #11: Clean-up

Tap to view at full size. A good chunk of today was devoted to cleaning up all the tree and…

6 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #10: A farewell to silence

The stillness and silence from earlier this morning in our Old Seminole Heights neighbourhood broke at around 8:30 when people…

6 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #9: “That’ll buff right out.”

I was still tired after waking up at 5:45 and writing the previous post, so I went back to sleep…

6 months ago

Hurricane Milton post #8: The silence woke me up

No picture with this post, because there's no light. After getting used to the sound of howling winds, pummeling rain,…

6 months ago