Monday, August 27, 2012

New Digs

If you have ever been to Florida you know it's hot, spread out and humid (mind out of gutter).  Luckily we live on the water here.  Check out Jen's early-morning-before-work-view:


At this hour I am asleep.  When I do wake up I usually take an hour run on the beach or do yoga on our dock.  Then I spend a good portion of the day looking for work and writing stuff.  We have some neighbors:


This is Henry (above).  He is weird.  He eats the fish out of a pond maintained by the landlord.  He likes to walk up to our deck and stare at us for hours.  If you look in his eyes you can almost tell what he's thinking.


This is Leo.  One of our neighbors (human) rescued him.  He is very affectionate and makes us think of Zoey.  He also wants to eat the fish.

It is pretty quite here.  Soon I should be valeting cars for a casino cruise ship in port.  I expect an interesting crowd, who knows what the tips will be like but the hourly is a whopping $4.75.  Yea, people in Florida live on that.  Teachers make squat here.

More pictures of our backyard:

On a Sunny Day

On a Rainy Day

We are trying to stay busy with free activities.  Here are some pics from a recent nature walk:




We've seen more wildlife here than Colorado!
Jen isn't working today because of Tropical Storm / Hurricane Isaac.  The media hyped it up like it was going to be a huge disaster but in the end, it turned out to be not much more than scattered showers and some above average wind gusts.  We got sand bags and everything!  Even went to the grocery store to get supplies.

We are still working on finding a friend with a boat.  It would be nice to do some fishing while we are here.

We had lunch with Ron Thompson in St Pete the other day.  He was really nice and we had a great time, we plan to see him again soon.  

All in all Florida ain't so bad but personally, I can't wait till we are back in California.

Counting....the....days.





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