Cheaper Than Dirt?

If you look at the PREMIUM PRICE, you'll see it isn't cheap. I seem to be the 1st to have noticed or told them of their mistake & they we're happy with me having been on their property & had taken the picture. The manager immediately went & changed the price. Gee, maybe I could have gotten a sandwich & drink if I had offered to delete it off my camera, LOL.
This dozer work isn't cheaper than dirt either. But the junkyard is getting cleaned up some. I took this picture & another that has to go to the judge as a progress report Tuesday. Thinking of the junkyard & the 3 drunks. The terrible looking trailer is no longer there. One drunk stole another's beer & ended up beating the one he stole the beer from with a 2 X 4. The beaten guy spent the night at the hospital. The other who did the beating & has the mean junkyard dog is in JAIL. He has called 20 or more times thinking the junkyard owner would bail him out, but it's not happening.
This was my dinner today, toasted cheese, with thick slices of Velvetta cheese. Delicious.
Here are 2 of the friendly German Shepherds at the junkyard. They are inside a fence though, as they would roam the neighborhood. There is also 1 more friendly one in the back who is chained because he won't stay on the property also. The closest one her in the picture will hardly let me get past him when I get inside the gate. He will come & lean on me & STEP ON MY TOE TO HOLD ME IN PLACE, LOL, until he is satisfied I have petted him enough. Then she get her turn, but then if I give her too much attention, he comes back & pushes his way in again. He is the biggest German Shepherd I have ever seen in height.

I've been helping at the junkyard hooking up the chain to move steel & vehicles. Got to get back before dark to help again as I HAVE THE LIGHT!!! Have a good week,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Ron

Pig in a poke?

Well, not yet a Pig In A Poke, but is gonna be part of a HOG ROAST. The guy who owns the cage said the next one he catches we can have. Bob, who works here asked if he could buy one, but found out we'd get it free. The wild pig, maybe sow, as it looks like she has had baby pigs or is expecting, is small, skinny, to what we raise on farms. She has what appears to be a MOHAWK running up her back, maybe just the hair standing up as I was there, I'm not sure, but she did charge me as I got closer to the cage.
I'm sure glad she was inside. I did notice at the end of the cage though that there was a place that needed repaired. If she had seen that, she could have forced her snout through it & gotten out. I had a farmer friend I worked for who when he was in the lot with his domestic hogs that something happened & the pigs ate him. I got bit once by an unhappy pig as we were trying to load them to go to market. (MAYBE THAT ONE UNDERSTOOD WHEN HE GOT LOADED INTO THE TRUCK HIS LIFE WAS NEAR THE END, LOL). On the good side of hogs though, I raised pigs in 4-H & had pigs who were pets. Scratch them everywhere just like a dog & they end up being pets. I even slept with my guilt the night she had her pigs. Dad came out the next morning & I was still asleep in the hog house when he raised the lid.

I enlarged this wild pig's picture, using Picasa2, which the computer geeks taught me, http://geeksontour.com/ & saw she has brown eyes & a bloody snout, probably from ramming the cage, trying to get out. She rammed the cage several times when I was there taking her picture. Domestic hogs I know are nearsighted.

All for now. Got to get checked out. Have a good weekend,,,,,,,,,,,,,Ron

Squirrel

This morning I went looking to see if any of the wild pigs had been caught in the trap cages, but no luck.

So then I was checking to see about walking the pup named Roscoe, so had to go to Richard's trailer. As we were there talking, this squirrel walked right up to us on the sidewalk. But when I moved to bring the camera up to take it's picture, it went onto the tree. Just as I took the 1st picture it moved, so I got a TREE PICTURE!!! Then we noticed it stopped on a small branch. Besides me taking it's picture, Richard said it was checking us out. Probably thinking maybe we'd feed it. So many campers here feed them that they are pretty brave & come right up to people. In the bad respect, they are a nuisance & I have a friend who had a squirrel who was thirsty & chewed a water line into under their trailer.

Got to move out of the campgrounds tomorrow for a week. Going to the junkyard, so not sure when you'll hear from me again. Maybe tomorrow, maybe in a week. Just hope to find something to photograph.

Weather pattern is staying the same here. Lower 90's & 50% chance of rain everyday. Yesterday, I heard 1 clap of thunder, but no rain.

Have a good week,,,,,Ron

Butterfly

I went for a walk on the nature trail a few days ago. I saw a red & black what appeared to be a bumble bee, but I've been told it is poisonous & could be deadly, but I wanted a picture of it, so I went for a walk, which was good for me anyway. Need to do it everyday. My doctor wants me to walk 2 miles a day. So anyway I got to see these pretty butterflies close to the river.
Walking along the Peace River, also looking for an alligator, I did find this "RED BELLIED TURTLE". Did I say say "RED BELLIED"? Looks like a yellow bellied to me, but that's it's name.
At the end of the trail, I saw this heron, I think Blue Heron. A small stream he was sitting beside, maybe waiting for something to eat. Anyway this small stream feeds into the Peace River in the foreground of the picture.
This is one of the numerous lizards around the clubhouse. They eat insects I hear. Wish they'd eat mosquito's or love bugs or roaches. I saw one roach down here at least 2" long. Last time I pulled up my sewer hose, he came out of the sewer. Hope they don't get into the bus.
Last time after sending the chainsaw carvings, I saw these. A Armadillo in the foreground & 2 bears.

Last blog, I used a term, that I seemed familiar with, even though I didn't know the spelling or exact meaning. Well, a friend of mine, Steve, who is into veggie oil & living off the grid, looked it up for me. See the link: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/lackadaisical

I also was happy to hear on the news that Drew Carey, not Rosie O'Donnell is going to be the new host of "THE PRICE IS RIGHT", come fall. Maybe all of us voting in that e-mail to NOT HAVE ROSIE O'DONNELL did have some input to CBS.

Been cloudy all day & comfortable. I heard 1 clap of thunder & unplugged the computer for awhile, but haven't heard any since. Tomorrow is HUMP DAY, so hope you are having a good week. Ron

You Might Be A Redneck If...............

You haul fence on your fishing boat, LOL. I met this guy at the veggie stand today, but I didn't have my camera with me, so I talked him into stopping by the campground so I could get this picture. He used to be a mechanical contractor. So now that he is retired, he doesn't own a truck. He said he hauled 6-7 pieces to his job site & had this one left over to take back. Guess I'm getting lacidasial, (IS THAT A WORD?-seems like I've heard that term-meaning not to care), attitude about carrying my camera, not thinking there is anything to take pictures of staying right here in this campground. Yesterday as I walked the nature trail, I didn't take the camera with me either & I saw what looked like a red & black bumble bee, not yellow & black. I was told it was a poisonous bee.

I took this picture the other day, but couldn't fit it on the blog. About 7-8 people in the pool. It has cooled off some because of the rain thank goodness. The temperature of the pool was up over 95 degrees. Then we have had rain cooling it off. This evening we had a thunderstorm with 1.1" of rain, so I'm sure the pool will be a much more comfortable temperature. I talked to a friend in NY & she said the pool is chilly there, but the daytime heat is hot.

Hope you all have a good week,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Ron

Peeping Tom

Not much going on, so finally getting around to taking pictures I've been aiming to take for a long time. There is a guy who camps here in the winter who does chainsaw carving. These are some he left behind. This 1st picture is a lizard looking into the laundry room.

I took another picture of a small alligator, but not as glorious nor space to put it in here.

This is the alligator out beside the shuffleboard courts. It got some green paint on it's top, plus there are some weeds growing out of it's back, LOL, so you know it hasn't moved for awhile.
This is a wild boar. See it's tusk? It also has short stubby feet & grisly hair. A year ago this last winter there were some wild hogs here by the campgrounds. They were making messes rooting the ground, so traps were set, pigs were caught, & THEY WERE SERVED IN THE RESTAURANT AS GROUND PORK PATTIES.

I think these are bears. What appears to be a cigarette in the top picture turns out to be one of the many lizards around here, as you can see in the lower picture. These 2 bears are carved out of tree stumps.

I checked the water temperature in the swimming pool & it feels a little cooler, so think I'll go swimming today. The pool has just been too hot.

I heard this week that my picture of me singing Karaoke at the July 4th day festivities was published in the paper, but I haven't seen it yet.

Hope you are enjoying your weekend.......................................................Ron

Museum 3

I had heard of the Buster Brown Camera, but never saw one. There are many antique cameras here & they'd sell some of them to have money for other projects. At the moment they are ready to add onto the museum. I haven't taken pictures in the machinery bldg. yet. So if you are interested in owning an antique camera, let me know. In sending the picture of the old wood stove, I got a reply with pictures from my friend Steve Spence who uses veggie oil for vehicles & generates his own electricity also. He has a wood stove for cooking & baking. He sent me pictures of his. Here is what he said:
It was sitting in a warehouse for 7 years. Customer ordered for y2k and never picked up. It was built in china in '98. I got it half price last year.
\Steve Spence Director, Green-Trust http://www.green-trust.org/ http://www.green-trust.org/bookshop/
Here is an old wood burning steam engine. Where now is the northbound lanes of SR 17, there used to be railroad tracks that ran through Wauchula. This engine never ran on these tracks, but a local man who owned it, as well as the Revell Crate Co., donated it to the museum. So they loaded it on a truck. The DOT police caught them right after they went over a bridge & told them they had to have a permit to cross the bridge as it was overweight. So they asked them, "What do you want us to do? Take it back onto the other side of the bridge?" Well, they let them go. There is a big power show here every March at this park.
1914 was the year. Sort of surprised it is wood burning, not coal. I'm sure it took a lot of wood to produce the power. One nice thing about Florida though is MOST of it is flat land.

Sign is self explanatory.


Have a nice day,,,,,,,,,,,,,Ron