A repost of someone else’s thoughts.  Lara — still in big dirty apple.  And now you see why.

August  15 – Moved to our new home in  Connecticut . It’s so beautiful here.  The ocean & Sound looks so majestic.  I  can hardly wait to see it snow covered.  I’m going to love it  here!

October  14 – Connecticut is  definitely the most beautiful place on earth. The leaves have turned all  the colors and shades of red and orange.  Went for a ride through the  park and saw some deer.  They are so graceful. Certainly they are the  most wonderful animals on earth. This must be paradise, I LOVE IT  HERE!!

November  10 – Deer season will start  soon. I can’t imagine anyone wanting to kill such a gorgeous animal.   Hope it will snow soon. I love it here. Those red and orange leaves have  covered my yard. Looks like a magnificent multi-colored carpet. HOW  BEAUTIFUL.  Raking and cleaning up the yard will be an opportunity  for invigorating exercise in the cool crisp  air.

November  15 – Ah, more leaves and more  exercise.

November  18 – Jesus, still more leaves.  Guess it’s best to wait until they’ve all fallen before I rake  again.

November 25 –  Finally, all of the trees lost their leaves and with today’s final  raking it’s over for this season.

Chiropractor suggested I use a lawn  maintenance service next year. Only four blisters became infected. Should  probably remember to use gloves.

November 30 – What the fuck? Where did  all of those leaves come from?  Had a little wind last night and the  lawn is covered again.

Oh well, they’ll just have to wait until  spring.

December 12 – It  snowed last night, FINALLY. Woke up to find everything blanketed in  white.  It looks like a  postcard.

We  went outside and cleaned the snow off the steps and shoveled the driveway.  Had a snowball fight (I  won) and when the snowplow came by and we had to shovel the end of the  driveway again.

What a beautiful place. I Love Connecticut   !

December 14 –  More snow last night, I love it. The snow plow did his trick to the driveway again.  I Love it here.

December 19 –  More snow again last night. Can’t get out of the driveway.  Can’t to  get to work. I’m exhausted from shoveling. Fucking  snowplow.

December 22 – More of that white  shit fell again last night. As if dealing with the leaves weren’t bad  enough, now I’ve got blisters all over my hands from shoveling, must  remember to wear gloves. I think the snowplow hides around the corner and  waits until I’m finished shoveling the driveway. The  asshole.

December 25 –  Merry Fucking Christmas. More frigging snow. If I ever get my hands on  that son-of-a-bitch who drives the snowplow, I swear I’ll kill the  bastard. Don’t know why they don’t use more salt on the roads to melt the  fucking ice.

December 27 –  More white shit last night. Have been inside for three days except for  shoveling out the driveway after that plow goes through every time.  Fucking gloves got wet and then froze on my  hands.

Doctor  said it was just a mild case of frost bite, disfiguration is probably only  temporary. Can’t go anywhere, car is stuck in a mountain of white shit.  The weatherman says to expect another 10 inches of the shit tonight. Do  you know how many shovels full of snow 10 inches  is?

December  28 – The fucking weatherman  was wrong. We got 34 inches of that white shit. At this rate it won’t melt  ’till summer.

The  plow got stuck up the road and the bastard came to the door and asked to  borrow a shovel. After I told him I’d already broken six of them  shoveling all the shit he pushed into the driveway, I broke my last one on  his fucking head.

January 4 –  Finally got out of the house today. Went to the store to get food and on  the way back I hit a damned deer that ran in front of my car.  Did  about $3000 damage.  Fucking beast should be killed.  Wish the  hunters had killed them all last  November.

May 3 – Took the  car to the garage in town. The thing is rusting out from all the fucking  salt they put all over the roads.

May  10 – Moved to Punta Gorda , Florida   . I  can’t imagine why anyone in their right mind would ever  live in that God forsaken state of Connecticut .