What's up, y'all?

I'm Alan Hayne the Lawn Care Nutt.

Thanks for coming back for yet another week.

This is the Lawns Across America podcast, first one of 2025. So welcome. I know it's cold wherever you are.

It's cold here in Florida, too. Got down to 34 degrees last night over here by Bradenton, Florida.

We're on the west coast of Florida, not too far from Tampa Bay, bordering the Gulf of America.

That's where we are located. And we have

gotten down into 34. But folks in northern northwest Florida, you guys got snow that stuck, which I think

that's the first time that's happened in my lifetime. There was snow that came to Florida in the 80s.

I think it was 1980 or 81. I was born in 1973, so I would have been seven or eight years old.

I have vague memories of the snow, and my memory was that my mom took me outside early in the morning,

and she had black construction paper, and she claimed to be catching the snow on the construction

paper so I could see it. But I never saw it. But apparently it snowed. There was something, again, as a seven-year-old, I didn't see the snow. I could feel that it was cold outside, but I didn't see anything in the air. But apparently, if you caught it on this black construction paper, the adults could see it. But I never did. So that's the closest. And by the way, just so you guys know, I actually never saw snow for the first time until I was 20 years old when I went in the Air Force.

I ended up my technical school, my tech training tech school was at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, the Defense Information School, Denfos, which is now in Maryland, I think.

But back then, it was a joint service training facility. That's where

all public affairs training took place for all branches of the military, including the Coasties.

And that's when I was stationed there. And that would have been, I went into basic training

1993 at the end of November, right before Thanksgiving, actually. And so that was six weeks. So it would have been

January, February. I was actually in Indianapolis. The training was three or four months.

I think it was four months, actually, 120 days. And so I was there all during the spring. And that's the

first time. So 20 years old, 20 is the first time I ever saw snow. So think about that. But anyway,

I'm pretty sure the snow stuck up in the northern parts of Florida. There's people putting pictures up of them driving their lawnmowers across it, which, you know, I understand. You want to have fun. It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing. Go out there and have some fun and enjoy the re-sod. But I know you guys are all cold wherever you are. And so what I'm really hoping to accomplish today with this podcast

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