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During our trip to the coast the other day…. I saw this.
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But to be fair, it was rather hard to miss.
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A more magnificent mailbox you’re not apt to see. Tacky? Yes. But if I lived at the beach?
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I would totally have one.
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Subtle? No. Fabulous? Yes…
I love America’s whimsy and quirks. ❤️
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We do embrace our weirdos.
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Well, there is a tradition of planting flamingos in the Florida yards for birthdays. One woman awoke in our area to find 54 flamingos (plastic) in her yard. For awhile, there was a shortage of these flamingos and they were bought up when the company producing them went out of business. As you know, we live in Florida and I kept a few around, a few in storage for our garden until they just wore out!
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Up here we call it “flocking”…. as in, you’ve been flocked…. and we do it for all kinds of reasons. Birthdays, retirements, graduations, or just as a gag.
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Well, my husband just told me an interesting story he heard on our local radio station that evidently one flamingo indicates a swinger in the yard which is why the Villages have one flamingo in many yards. Now that is tacky. Besides we get the real egrets, so we are good.
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Ugh. I didn’t know that, but agree. I’d much rather have egrets.
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Yeah, it is amazing what they retired military guys hear!! I think I would just hang out to listen to the conversation.
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Ha! My grandparents had those, believe it or not. They must have been the only Hispanics in the state with pink plastic flamingos in their front yard!!
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Tacky crosses all ethnic barriers…
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That would be a homerun in mailbox baseball!
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A definite grand slam.
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I think that’s fun, not tacky. But I also think it should be motorized so that the beak drops down to open the mailbox, and maybe the wings could flap. Now, that would be awesome!
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Ha! That’s the spirit.
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I don’t live anywhere near the beach and I want one. Every neighborhood could use a flamingo.
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Agreed. It totally wouldn’t fit in my rural area…. but I’m still tempted.
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Not tacky enough for South Florida–we use LIVE ones!!!
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Ohhhhh…. if only “Flamingo Dancer” still blogged here!!
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A wrought-iron flamingo is pretty cool.
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I love it.
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If you’re ever looking for a gift for Swinged Cat, he’d love this. He loves pink flamingo lawn ornaments.
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He’s not getting one behind I do. Uh uh. Nope.
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Suddenly, I wish we had curbside mailboxes in my ‘hood instead of ones mounted next to the front door…’cause I’d be tickled pink to have that mailbox.
The neighbors have no idea what kind of bullet they’ve dodged…
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I was so tempted to knock on their door and ask where they got it…. but the husband wouldn’t stop.
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Wanna do a midnight raid sis? I want it…..
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But so do I and there in lies the rub….
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hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
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