Jasonisms

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...

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...

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.