Every other weekend I get Saturday Sunday and Monday off and every other weekend it has started raining to welcome summer. The end of a long drought is a good thing but why does it have to end on my days off? I am taking it personally.
A work day for me ends with an exercise tape at home, a swim in the canal behind my house and then I walk Rusty while my wife relaxes by cooking. I wash up not least because I am compulsive about stuff like that and let's face it a great cook isn't necessarily a great dish washer. Not in my home. Rusty licks a clean bowl when he feels like it but he's perfect no matter what.
I have mixed feelings about people coming back to visit the Keys, though the good part for me will be, I hope seeing better pictures. Months of looking for still life worth recording is starting to wear on me and I never expected that it would. Empty streets are only interesting when you juxtapose the emptyness of after hours with the busyness of regular hours! Everything is empty these days all the time...
I am not looking forward to the traffic, the increase inevitably of 911 calls, the undifferentiated impact of people not thinking or not caring about the pandemic they think they have left in their rearview mirrors.
The Sheriff has held the line with the roadblocks against all requests and demands that he take them down. From what I've heard they have refused entry to more than 13,000 vehicles and made several arrests related to the road blocks. It blows m mind that people are thinking its worth trying their luck even though it's clear the road is closed! I cannot imagine they will bring much social awareness when they arrive next week.
That is a problem for next week. And even then I doubt any of the hordes arriving in the keys will be looking for long empty roads lined by mangroves, dull uninteresting and not worth stopping on. These places will continue I have no doubt to be my refuge even as they were before everything went weirdly wrong. You have to find your quiet place where you can.
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I spy an elephant in the rock on the third picture. If you were to keep score.
I hadn't noticed but yes.
Illinois is opening up some things yet I don't really think we are ready. Gotta do it sometime I guess but the virus cases are still too high for my liking. If people are following the rules, things should be better than they are reporting.
I actually feel bad that your piece of paradise has to reopen. I know it’s been devastating to businesses, but it sure looks beautiful when it’s empty of people. Hope that the residents can reopen safely and profitability.
Always forget to ask, but is swimming in the canals safe? Any predatory sea life? Seems relaxing and convenient. Just wondering.
Most people worry about being eaten when swimming in the canals. I like to leave them to think that. Barracuda will look for dead fish if people clean their fish in the canals but otherwise I've been swimming in them for years. A no maintenance swimming poll. My style and I have a hot shower upstairs. In summer jellyfish might sting but nothing worse than mosquito bites.
On the subject there are said to be poisonous snakes in the back country but I have never come across anything worse than horseflies. Everything else is fear. Please don't spread the word as I like to walk alone.
You can encounter dangerous sea-life in any bit of ocean water. There are no fences. Better it happen 10 feet from your dock than a mile out to sea in open water.
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