Re: Why snowbirds exist


"william boyd" <williamboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47578ce3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Janet Wilder wrote:
tim fm ct wrote:

"william boyd" <williamboyd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:47561279$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Joe Bedford wrote:
On Dec 4, 6:13 pm, Hugh <hbdand...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Joe Bedford wrote:
I couldn't help feeling sorry for myself hearing about all the warm
weather you folks are getting down south. We're trying to get out of
here on Saturday but mother nature is NOT co-operating.
Click here:
http://picasaweb.google.ca/JJosephBedford/WhyWeLeave
Here's hoping for warm weather soon,
Joe
That's just a dusting Joe <g>. We shoveled at least 10" from the
driveway and walks and it looks like we'll have to shovel again
tomorrow. Can't wait for Christmas, we leave soon after for Florida.
Hugh

Yeah, and it's STILL "dusting" tonight. I think in the last 3 days
we've had about 40cm which for the metrically challenged is about
15-16".

If it stops long enough we'll be heading for Florida on Saturday.

_IF_ I can get my hitch unfrozen. Never occurred to me - if you're
going to 5th wheel in really cold weather, DON'T put grease on you
hitch - you won't be able to move it!!!!

Cheers? Joe
I use the Teflon disk and nothing else. Well maybe some lube spray in the mechanism.

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BILL P.
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DOG

Hi folks,
I'm jump'n in here to ask about snowbirds - - kind of.. We live in Connecticut and this is our first fall of both my wife and I being retired. We've RVed for years but always stayed home in the winter.
I called around to see if we could go somewhere for end of Feb and into March. I found a very reasonable campgrounds in Mississippi. It's near Picayune. Picayune? What a hoot.
Anyway, in our conversation we heard a new term. "Halfbacks", it think it was. Going to Mississippi apparently is getting popular due to traveling and residing expenses in Florida.
I guess it called being a "halfback" instead of a snowbird.
Back to Picayune. It's supposed to be 45 minutes from New Orleans and about the same from the Gulf Coast. If anyone has wintered in that area please share your experiences or helpful info for brand new "halfbacks"....VBG.
Tim fm CT

It gets too cold in MS for my thin blood, though Feb and March might not be a problem. No see-ums could if it warms up enough in March.

We were that area one year in early April and had to leave after a day as we were getting eaten alive.


Don't knock that name Picayune, There was a cigarette with that name and it was in the category of Baseball and Between the Axe. The strongest brand ever sold in New Orleans.

I have lived in Mississippi for around 20 years, you must must remember that the closer you get to the coast the sooner in the spring the bugs start.

As a kid I spent around 8 years every winter in New Orleans and I do not have any memory of an unusual amount of bugs.

Is this the FALL? I'm about to freeze my whacalit off, and this is a warm year. I usually stay further south than where I am at, NE AL.

If I were you I would go down to a RV Resort some where around McAllen Texas, no wait a minute I lost my place in my thoughts, that is where I wanted to be, some where around Picayune or Slidell or on in to New Orleans. I think as I remember the moskeeters start most North West of NO more like around I-55.

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BILL P.
&
DOG

Bill no knock on the name Picayune. I remember the little cigarette. When I inhaled it was like swallowing a baseball. I think it was a white pack. right?
So the bugs come out in Feb. Mar huh? Slidell huh, I'll check it out. We haven't booked a place yet.
Tim fm CT

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