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    April Total Solar Eclipse, Only Partial View in Florida

    April 1, 2024 - By 

    The big celestial event in the news is the total solar eclipse coming April 8, 2024, but we won’t get the full effect here in Florida. It’s still worth checking out though! We will get at least a partial eclipse view. Not-So-Total Eclipse of the Florida Sun On Monday, April 8, North America will witness a total solar eclipse, with different degrees of eclipsing depending on your location. This will be the first total eclipse since 2017. I remember seeing that one. I almost missed it, because I was looking in the wrong direction. So, make sure you know where…

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    Hurricane Idalia is Coming and It’s Windy

    August 30, 2023 - By 

    While the west coast of Florida is getting battered by Hurricane Idalia, over here on the east coast we are just seeing a lot of wind and rain so far. It looks like it’s supposed to get windier and rainier as the day progresses. That’s the big hurricane report from here in Atlantic Beach, FL. But you never know with these hurricanes, as there was that one a few years ago that followed a similar path and went through the state, but then boomeranged back to hit us here in Jacksonville. So of course, I placed an Instacart order for…

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    Hurricane Dorian is Coming! Better Go Buy Wine

    August 30, 2019 - By 

    Growing up in Florida means growing up with hurricanes. Other states have Snow Days for missing school, we have Hurricane Days. I can’t count the number of times the first day of school was cancelled due to an impending storm. My son is only four, but we are about to go through his third hurricane experience! We live on a barrier island on the Atlantic coast of Florida so when a hurricane is headed our way, it’s a pretty big deal. I was checking updates on my phone and my son got curious. I tried to explain to him what…

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    That one time, I posted about shark penis

    February 19, 2018 - By 

    I’m pretty new to my neighborhood, and I’m happy to be getting to know my new neighbors, I just didn’t think I’d be known for shark penis. Or claspers, if you will. I now know way more about shark genitalia than I need to. See, we all thought it was a baby ray. We are always finding interesting things at the beach and one night during our evening stroll I spotted what I thought was a dead stingray. So of course I handed my son a stick and told him he could poke at it. We flipped it over to…