The Truth Of My Day

  Well, what have you been doing for the last 81 days? (and now it is even later than 81 days!) I have already posted an alligator blog, because how do I put my road to Florida into words? Me? I have taken 3 trips from Cedar City in Utah to Palm Bay in Florida. The last time was a road trip with everything we own in the shared space of a 16 foot trailer. So yeah, I'm having a bit of an energy crisis these days. I am just dragging. But what a place to have low energy! I'm not in heaven, I'm in haven. The Haven, to be exact. What a contrast to go from a fixer upper house with a big unfinished yard to a luxury apartment called The Haven. This is new to me. So is the high price, but it will get us through until we find a house to buy. Except everyone wants to move to Palm Bay, so our realtor says there is a bidding war on every house, he has never seen anything like it. The good news is that I would love a bit smaller and quieter city and one that fits the bill has lower prices...

 Know thine enemy, right?  Time to learn about alligators. They are phenomenal. Where to begin? The babies stay with their mothers for up to two years. That's longer than some of us human Moms, just saying. These animals are named after the Spanish word for lizard, but they take care of their young, which is cool. That is one big lizard momma I don't want to mess with. The sex of the offspring is based on the temperature of the nest. So interesting. Imagine having 20-50 sons or 20-50 daughters all at once. Or maybe the temperature of the nest changes as they are developing? I would love to watch a nature show, but many of them are over dramatized, and show a lot of the violence of them being predatory eaters. I don't want to feel sorry for a deer, I want to learn about the real details of these reptiles. The senses of all crocodilians are quite powerful in comparison to other reptiles. They have an excellent sense of hearing and a well developed inner ear; mothers can actua...