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Just Testing Something

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Since my previous post had the photo insert upside down, I wanted to check and see if it happened to all photos or just that one. Dexter, my brother's dog, while we were out for a walk on Dead River Park, Hillsborough County, FL. 

Wells Fargo and the Phone Caper

Like most of us I have a place where I throw errant change when emptying my pockets. Some of us use jars or cans, bowls or a tabletop -- I, I use a vodka bottle. Why? Because the bottle was cool looking, the mouth is wide enough to get all sizes of coins in and out, but narrow enough that nothing is going to fall out too easily.  This bottle is used for "silver" change only. You know, quarters, nickles, dimes and the occasional dollar coin. Pennies have their own specific box I toss them in. Namely, a cigar box someone was going to throw out so I commandeered it for pennies. Since I'm getting ready to leave Florida for Denver I decided to cash in the abundant amount of "silver" change I had lying around and hopefully get enough to put some gas in my truck or food in my belly. I (currently) bank at Wells Fargo. In Denver when I wanted to turn pennies into cash I called up a branch and asked if they had a coin machine. They didn't but the one a litt...

By the Water

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So, I took a random turn today and found this little area without a lot of people and a surprisingly small amount of garbage everywhere. I say that to point out how much garbage I've been seeing everywhere I've been since I arrived here in Florida. It's almost like the locals just don't care about their community and toss garbage everywhere, even going to far as to dumb garbage in empty lots just to be rid of it. Maybe one day I'll take pictures with garbage in the frame instead of trying hard to get pictures without trash and litter's abundance. But I digress. Here's a small one minute clip of just sitting my the water and listening to it lap at the rocks on the shoreline. And here is a small video clip of Rufus actually playing in the water. Well, I guess playing  isn't the right word since he actually jumped in there to chase a fish he saw, but this is the deepest I've ever seen him get int the water. I mean, aside from the one time I...

Peek-a-Boo in the Shell

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Here's a gopher tortoise Rufus and I ran across last week. As you can tell, Rufus is very uninterested. The tortoise however was very uninterested. 

Indian River in Brevard County

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Just a little something from last week. This is from Indiatlantic, FL looking west over the Indian River in Brevard County, FL.

Dolphin Watching

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So, this morning I took Rufus with me to the beach to watch the sunrise. Truth be told, I don't think I'm going to take him again as he was more interested in watching the kitty that was running loose than he was in watching the Sun crest the horizon. Anywho, after the sunrise we pulled over at the Indian River Lagoon and walked for a while. Once we were under the Melbourne Causeway I noticed the water moving and soon saw a dolphin (or porpoise, I really don't know. But for the sake of this story I'm going to go with "dolphin.") Since I am like a trained special forces soldier in my reflexes I grabbed my Android and took some video. If you have 5min take a look. If you don't... well, you're not missing much. Please Note: I  will be playing the role of the narrator and Rufus will be playing the role of dog .