Another glorious sunrise but this one was special. Nick and I had a hard week in dispatch together and we were both aching to be gone. We had no overtime scheduled for either of us so we had the prospect of four scheduled days off and we both rocketed out of dispatch the second we were relieved. "See you Tuesday!" he called from the driver's seat of his Volkswagen CC and that was the last of work for a long weekend off. That next weekend is all work is a subject for another day. 
I took Cheyenne to the Pool on Ramrod Key not least because I was tired, Friday night was busy in Key West and I wanted to let her run while I stood still and read the paper. The Pool is actually a failed development that started with planned roads and a canal cut that never went any further happily. Now it's a county park as undeveloped as only a park in the Keys can be. It is perfect when no one is there. 
We were not alone. John was out walking his foundling. The story goes that the puppy held up a coconut in his mouth most appealingly as John walked past the pound and he had to have the dog. My Yellow Lab doesn't mind him at all. 
We are different creatures he and I. He's an entrepreneur in electronics who has run his business all his adult life after he learned the trade. Yet we have an outlook in common which surprises me.
We share a belief in the decency of single payer, not least he with his bad back (he blames excessive motorcycling as a youth) and we prefer the value of small business over the monopoly of corporate America.
It's an opportunity to meet and share news once every couple of weeks walking our dogs by the shores of the Ramrod Pool.
And no matter how grim the news on the financial front there's always a palm on the horizon to help keep things in perspective. We could be freezing our asses off!
I took Cheyenne to the Pool on Ramrod Key not least because I was tired, Friday night was busy in Key West and I wanted to let her run while I stood still and read the paper. The Pool is actually a failed development that started with planned roads and a canal cut that never went any further happily. Now it's a county park as undeveloped as only a park in the Keys can be. It is perfect when no one is there. 
We were not alone. John was out walking his foundling. The story goes that the puppy held up a coconut in his mouth most appealingly as John walked past the pound and he had to have the dog. My Yellow Lab doesn't mind him at all. We are different creatures he and I. He's an entrepreneur in electronics who has run his business all his adult life after he learned the trade. Yet we have an outlook in common which surprises me. 
We share a belief in the decency of single payer, not least he with his bad back (he blames excessive motorcycling as a youth) and we prefer the value of small business over the monopoly of corporate America.
It's an opportunity to meet and share news once every couple of weeks walking our dogs by the shores of the Ramrod Pool.And no matter how grim the news on the financial front there's always a palm on the horizon to help keep things in perspective. We could be freezing our asses off! 
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Really stellar pics!
They came out well didn't they?
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