Hazel, this is Marield65, if I lived in Florida I would not be bored. I just sent you a long post.
But I really can't handle the humidity, but I would be in the pool. What part of Florida? Marie

Marie, believe it or not, I don't know how to swim! I've even taken adult coward classes, and I still ended up clinging to the side of the pool. Sigh. The humidity here is way too much for me. I spend summers indoors as much as possible, in the AC, and under a ceiling fan.

Hazel

Marie, forgot to reply: I live in faaaaaaaaaaaaaaar northern Florida, north of Tallahassee, not far from the Florida/Georgia state line.

When I was three years old, my family was at a public pool with a slide in the shallow end and a high dive at the deep end. My mother thought I said I want to "slide". What I actually said was that I wanted to "dive". She looked up in time to see me climbing the ladder. She started screaming as I ran down the board and jumped off! I had to be rescued. She then took me and my three sisters to the YMCA for swimming classes. We all went for years and each earned our life saving degrees. My mother never learned to swim, but she had four girls that could save her if needed! I love the water and am so glad my mom sent us to classes. With my various illnesses, I find comfort in water through warm jetted bathes and swimming pool exercises.

@hazel Yes, summers are awful. Not as humid, but can be days of 100 or above in the summer. I've been here 37 years, so you'd think I'd be used to it, but I'm not! I really, really miss the fall! We really don't have much of a fall here. Some day I'm going to take the train through New England during the fall and enjoy the beautiful leaves!

Hazel, Marie here. Well guess what? I don't know how to swim either. I have had so many lessons I should be in competitions ( yeah at 72?) but I am just afraid.
I wear a swim belt that holds you up in the deep end and I also hold on to a noodle. And my friends and I stay in the deep end, near the side and we chitchat for 2-4 hours in the pool and have a great time. I have had a few panicky moments if someone bumps me but I love the water. We don't swim around we just float around each other. I can't swim anyway because of my back pain and I had a knee replacement in April.
You are faaar north. It must be cooler there than Palm Beach where my husband and I would rent a condo which we haven't done the past 2 years because now the owners want to rent 4 months and we only want 2-3 months. And I am friendly with everyone but they are clicker and wouldn't be my friend. Their loss. Ha ha Anyway you made me forget my pain for awhile, thank you.

Never say someday. Do it now. I have lived in New England for 81 years & the Fall is my favorite time of year

Yeah, that's why I like living on the Oregon coast. We get less rain than New York City, and 90% of our time is between 40F and 70%.

Oldkarl, I envy you your climate! Heat, humidity, and I do NOT get along. I've lived in Florida for 25 years now (the longest I've ever lived anywhere), and I thought it'd get easier to live with the climate. Nope. Actually, the climate here has changed radically in the past 25 years. When we first moved here, in the summer it never got over 92 degrees. Every afternoon in the summer, we had a late afternoon thunderstorm, which cooled everything down. The roads steamed! Now, the temperatures go up into the three digits, and that late afternoon storm has disappeared. Winters have gotten warmer. Fall and spring, which were lovely, have gotten so much shorter that they're barely noticeable.

My husband's applying for a job in Indianapolis that just came open and that interests him. I would love to be back in the Midwest again! My only regret would be the distance to the beach. Even though I don't know how to swim, I do love being by the water and wading in it and hearing the wonderful sound of it.

Hazel

We love New England. We took our motor home up into Main and back across NH and VT. Beautiful in the fall.