Life In Cougar Town: July 2010

So where exactly IS the "Real Cougartown"...???

Where IS the "Real Cougartown"?? To answer that question, you have to watch the Title Sequence of ABC's "Cougartown", the part where they do a flyover of the map of Florida's West Coast (see video clip on gadget bar to the right). I wouldn't recommend watching much more of the show past that however... more than a little crude. However, in the Title Sequence the Words COUGARTOWN are bordered on the south by a large inlet of water - Charlotte Harbor- and to the north by a performing elephant - presumably Venice Florida, the home of the Ringling Brothers Circus. That would put the words COUGARTOWN right on top of..... North Port Florida. And oddly enough, the cougar is the mascot of the High School! Of course, controversy has erupted over this issue, and Sarasota has tried to claim the title of the "Real" Cougartown. I mean... have you ever BEEN to Sarasota???

After all we even have cougars here in North Port... real ones! And bobcats, and wild boar... although I've never seen any sign of them on the TV show. In fact, the idyllic suburb depicted in ABC's COUGARTOWN is nothing at all like the reality we live here day to day. And so, it is our pleasure to bring you a glimpse of what life is like in the REAL Cougartown...North Port Florida!

We normally have a LOT of Monarch butterflies around the garden. They all but disappeared after the severe cold in January...looks like they're coming back!