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Sharkguy
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 05:12 pm: |
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Gotta love it! Hope you all can get down here for bike week. Saw this on my ride today and had to snap a pic. The farmers are harvesting .
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Oddball
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 06:13 pm: |
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Got a bit brisk, at speed, when the clouds moved in but it was a good ride day. |
Swampy
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 07:09 pm: |
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Last week I got frost bite on my cheeks while out on the beach on Anna Maria, I don't know what part of Florida you are in.... |
Oddball
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 07:30 pm: |
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Harmony, right near Saint Cloud. Feels like the middle of nowhere compared to where I lived in MD. Civilization is 30-45 minutes in either direction. LOL |
Etennuly
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 08:15 pm: |
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That reminds me of driving I4 from Tampa to Orlando. The orange groves smell of fresh oranges. Then from Lakeland to Polk City you can smell the processing plants. Yecch. That'll keep you out of the orange juice isle at the grocery store! |
Nevrenuf
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 08:19 pm: |
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try working at tropicana vern. it's just as bad as working in the mines here. it sure was nice to not have to walk around with a coat on for once. |
Etennuly
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 08:23 pm: |
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No thanks! don't think I could ever get used to the smell of baked, rotting oranges. there it goes again! |
Fltwistygirl
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 08:42 pm: |
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Can't imagine working there, it's bad enough living 3 miles downwind of a citrus plant. SKEEV-A-LICIOUS! |
Itileman
| Posted on Sunday, February 21, 2010 - 10:03 pm: |
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Don't have that problem here. Snow and ice are odorless. Looking at the long range weather forecast, I might be able to start riding again in June. |
Florida_lime
| Posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 - 06:51 am: |
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Can't imagine working there, it's bad enough living 3 miles downwind of a citrus plant. Doesn't really bother me that much, but the closest one to me is 25 miles north. If I can smell it, that means it is going to get cold -- Cold front pushing south ! I think the smell while riding through the groves in the springtime makes up for it, though. (Message edited by Florida_lime on February 22, 2010) |
Sharkguy
| Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 04:51 pm: |
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I'm in Ocoee, about 10 miles W. of Orlando. I also have a juice plant to the North of me I can smell on North breezy days. I also remember in 89 when we had some bad freezes, the farmers didn't harvest and just let the fruit rot. It fermented and the birds started eating it and getting soused. I got nicked by a drunk crow while out for a ride! Nothing worse then flying drunk. |
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