Red Sox 2026 Spring Training

[mvp 78]

 

[mvp 78]

Happy Truck Day. 

Go help pack up some bubblegum. Suck down some fumes with other fans. Enjoy the seasonal weather. 

[Old Red]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

Happy Truck Day. 

Go help pack up some bubblegum. Suck down some fumes with other fans. Enjoy the seasonal weather. 

Seems like what’s seasonal weather has changed a bit this year.

[mvp 78]

17 minutes ago, Old Red said:

Seems like what’s seasonal weather has changed a bit this year.

🥶

[JoeBrady]

42 minutes ago, mvp 78 said:

🥶

My nephew is going down to FL this morning.  Has it ever been this cold down there?

[mvp 78]

29 minutes ago, JoeBrady said:

My nephew is going down to FL this morning.  Has it ever been this cold down there?

2010 got this cold in my area. Had a lot of local fish die off that time from the cold temps back then after being cold stunned. We'll see what happens here. The ocean temp was at 73 yesterday, so hoping it wasn't too bad in the estuary. 

I didn't bother covering my yard with blankets because I redid it with 400 native plants two years ago. It would have been hard to know what to cover and what to ignore. The plants that I typically see on the beach (dune sunflower, railroad vine) look awful, but they'll be back and take over again once it warms up. The jamaican dogwood and fire bush are pretty rough too, but I think they'll just drop their leaves and regrow them in a month or two. We'll see what happens. 

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[Kimmi]

6 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

Happy Truck Day. 

Go help pack up some bubblegum. Suck down some fumes with other fans. Enjoy the seasonal weather. 

Let's Go!

Happy Snow Day to me!

[JoeBrady]

2 hours ago, Kimmi said:

Let's Go!

Happy Snow Day to me!

Bad when you get snow days that far south.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

6 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

2010 got this cold in my area. Had a lot of local fish die off that time from the cold temps back then after being cold stunned. We'll see what happens here. The ocean temp was at 73 yesterday, so hoping it wasn't too bad in the estuary. 

I didn't bother covering my yard with blankets because I redid it with 400 native plants two years ago. It would have been hard to know what to cover and what to ignore. The plants that I typically see on the beach (dune sunflower, railroad vine) look awful, but they'll be back and take over again once it warms up. The jamaican dogwood and fire bush are pretty rough too, but I think they'll just drop their leaves and regrow them in a month or two. We'll see what happens. 

I hope the pythons all freeze. Or do they go into suspended animation and come back to life when it warms up, like garden worms?

[Duran Is The Man]

6 hours ago, mvp 78 said:

2010 got this cold in my area. Had a lot of local fish die off that time from the cold temps back then after being cold stunned. We'll see what happens here. The ocean temp was at 73 yesterday, so hoping it wasn't too bad in the estuary. 

I didn't bother covering my yard with blankets because I redid it with 400 native plants two years ago. It would have been hard to know what to cover and what to ignore. The plants that I typically see on the beach (dune sunflower, railroad vine) look awful, but they'll be back and take over again once it warms up. The jamaican dogwood and fire bush are pretty rough too, but I think they'll just drop their leaves and regrow them in a month or two. We'll see what happens. 

good for you. native plants= native insects= native birds. non-native plants =nearly nothing.

[jad]

1 hour ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

I hope the pythons all freeze. Or do they go into suspended animation and come back to life when it warms up, like garden worms?

Damn, I HAD to look that up. (Being high might have spurred me on.). Most snakes have no problem--they just burrow--rattlesnakes in big snake-balls--YUCH.   But pythons are vulnerable and start to shut down in anything under 50 degrees.  Since they're tropical, I guess, they haven't evolved any obvious defenses--Hey, dude, how about like BURYING YOURSELF IN THE WARM EARTH?    OK.  I feel I've had enough intellectual advancement for one day.

[drewski6]

50 minutes ago, Duran Is The Man said:

good for you. native plants= native insects= native birds. non-native plants =nearly nothing.

i dont think you would get along with my cat, if you like birds that is

[Duran Is The Man]

51 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

i dont think you would get along with my cat, if you like birds that is

i have nothing against cats, as long as they're kept indoors. left outside, they're too hard on wildlife, like birds, rabbits, etc.

[moonslav59]

51 minutes ago, Duran Is The Man said:

i have nothing against cats, as long as they're kept indoors. left outside, they're too hard on wildlife, like birds, rabbits, etc.

True.

Our cat used to bring us unbroken bird eggs, so we had to convert her to indoors only.

[Duran Is The Man]

1 hour ago, moonslav59 said:

True.

Our cat used to bring us unbroken bird eggs, so we had to convert her to indoors only.

good for you. some people mistakenly think a bell around the cat's neck will help, by alerting the birds to the cat's presence, when in truth the cat just learns how to catch wildlife, without the bell making any noise. 

[moonslav59]

52 minutes ago, Duran Is The Man said:

good for you. some people mistakenly think a bell around the cat's neck will help, by alerting the birds to the cat's presence, when in truth the cat just learns how to catch wildlife, without the bell making any noise. 

This is no joke: that cat thought she was a dog. She was raised with one. Used the dog door and went to the bathroom outside. No cat litter box needed.

She'd walk around the block with us and the dog, and the birds would see her and start screeching, they'd flock from miles around and form a gauntlet down the street and some would swoop down on her and peck her head. She had scabs on her ears from the attacks.

My wife bought a super-soaker squirt gun to shoot at the birds swooping our cat.

I could go on an on...

[jad]

I see occasional signs of feral cats here, but the local fishers apparently keep teh population in check.

[5GoldGlovesOF,75]

21 minutes ago, jad said:

I see occasional signs of feral cats here, but the local fishers apparently keep teh population in check.

We have to keep our cats indoors from lions, coyotes and bears -- the first two would eat them, but the bears knock over our big green trash can on pick-up day and pull bags out, which the rescue cats would then scatter all over the mountain.

[mvp 78]

14 hours ago, 5GoldGlovesOF,75 said:

I hope the pythons all freeze. Or do they go into suspended animation and come back to life when it warms up, like garden worms?

They are resilient enough and typically in the water or under a layer of earth unlike the falling iguanas that were being bagged up for FWC.

[mvp 78]

13 hours ago, Duran Is The Man said:

good for you. native plants= native insects= native birds. non-native plants =nearly nothing.

It started from my wife wanting to do a butterfly garden during 2020 and then kind of got out of control. The only non-native plants left over from the previous owners are the annoying shrubs hiding the a/c units, a few large jatropha in the backyard that the butterfly like and some palm trees. 

[mvp 78]

13 hours ago, jad said:

Damn, I HAD to look that up. (Being high might have spurred me on.). Most snakes have no problem--they just burrow--rattlesnakes in big snake-balls--YUCH.   But pythons are vulnerable and start to shut down in anything under 50 degrees.  Since they're tropical, I guess, they haven't evolved any obvious defenses--Hey, dude, how about like BURYING YOURSELF IN THE WARM EARTH?    OK.  I feel I've had enough intellectual advancement for one day.

The water in the Everglades is warmer than 50 degrees, so I think they'll be fine for now. Would need a really crazy cold snap which would be horrible for the entire ecosystem TBH.

[mvp 78]

It will be 68 at Jet Blue today, so things are getting back to normal for anyone working out over there. 

[drewski6]

9 hours ago, moonslav59 said:

This is no joke: that cat thought she was a dog. She was raised with one. Used the dog door and went to the bathroom outside. No cat litter box needed.

She'd walk around the block with us and the dog, and the birds would see her and start screeching, they'd flock from miles around and form a gauntlet down the street and some would swoop down on her and peck her head. She had scabs on her ears from the attacks.

My wife bought a super-soaker squirt gun to shoot at the birds swooping our cat.

I could go on an on...

I like the sound of your cat.  My cat is very doglike herself, and I had to convert her to indoors. Sorry Duranistheman and MVP, the street birds I didnt mind as much but the baby bunny murders broke my heart.  I dont know how my cat can be so sweet and loving and snuggly with all humans even strangers. She even likes medium sized dogs (I dont trust her around small ones) but she is an absolute monster to mice, birds, rabbits.  So I converted her to indoor only.  ALso, she started losing fights to other cats and thats how you get kitty aids (getting scratched up and bit up).  I didnt mind her fighting the neighorhood cats when she was winning the fights but one time I heard her shriek under a car and a bully larger, younger cat was bullying her and Im not going to say she didnt deserve it but shes my princess and she never went outside again.

I thought it would be harder to convert her to only indoors but it wasnt.  Once in a while shell lay by the door and try to sneak out but most of the time shed rather be curled up in a warm lap anyways.

I feel like if she was murdering more exotic or cooler birds I would have minded more (not to imply that a birds life matters more if its pretty even though thats kind of exactly what Im implying) - but with like those gray street birds there are like hundreds of thousands on my block alone in the summer - I just hated when she would bring them home alive because now im chasing the thing around with a broom and its too dumb to find and fly out of the open window even though they are all open.

[drewski6]

10 hours ago, Duran Is The Man said:

good for you. some people mistakenly think a bell around the cat's neck will help, by alerting the birds to the cat's presence, when in truth the cat just learns how to catch wildlife, without the bell making any noise. 

cats are smarter than they credited for a lot of times.

[drewski6]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

The water in the Everglades is warmer than 50 degrees, so I think they'll be fine for now. Would need a really crazy cold snap which would be horrible for the entire ecosystem TBH.

Is your favorite WWE wreslter from the early 90s "Skinner". He was from the everglades

[mvp 78]

There was a report that North American bird population is down over 30% since 1970. Cats are a leading non-native cause of bird depopulation. Easy enough to just keep them inside.  

[mvp 78]

Cats are also never doglike. This is always a lie. Cats are wonderful. Dogs are wonderful. That are just very different animals even when they get along. 

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57 minutes ago, drewski6 said:

Is your favorite WWE wreslter from the early 90s "Skinner". He was from the everglades

1991 was a very cursed roster

The Berzerker

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