Signs Of A Fine Establishment, Pt. 50

Southern Living Edition

(Walterboro, SC / 07 June 2008)

(Jax, FL / 06 May 2008)

Mildly Interesting Photos Of The Week

(21 Sept 2008 /near Suwanee, FL / Casio EX-Z750)

Mildly Interesting Photos Of (Last) Week

(both: Aug 2008 / Milwaukee, WI / Casio EX-Z750)

Mildly Interesting Photos Of (Last Last) Week

(both: Aug 2008 / Milwaukee, WI / Casio EX-Z750)

Fay, Part Two

(image: firstcoastnews.com)

Thought you needed to see exactly what we're dealing with here.

Incidentally (if you and your retinas are still with us), this photo came from a story quoting the National Guard in Melbourne - which got 22 inches of rain on the first day - as remarking that there are now alligators and large snakes cruising the flooded streets.

No alligators here, but we only got about half a foot of rain overnight. Plus, the power's back on now, at least for a while, so we won't have to go out with spears to hunt squirrels in the park just yet. And some of the bridges are open at the moment, which means I still have to make my soggy way in to work again today. Not that yesterday was a day off.

Fay

(image: noaa.gov)

Fay!
I just like saying the word, really.
Excuse me while I go park my car underneath a big dead tree limb. Back in a few.

(Jax, FL / 04 Apr 2008 / Casio EX-Z750)

(09 July 2008 / St Marys, GA)

Signs Of A Fine Establishment, Pt. 47

(15 Oct 2007 / The Georgia Pig)

Signs of a Fine Establishment. Pt. 46

Cutting-Edge-Technology Edition

(both: 17 May 2008 / somewhere in KY)

Mildly Interesting Photos Of The Week

Large-Prehistoric-Looking-Animals-With-Beady-Eyes Edition

(both: 21 March 2008 / Casio EX-Z750 / Jax, FL)

Signs Of A Fine Establishment, Pt. 45

(Jax, FL / 21 Mar 2008 / Casio EX-Z750)

Mildly Interesting Photos Of The Week

(both: 31 Dec 2007 / Saratoga Springs, NY / Casio EX-Z750)

Wayfarers Update

As we say in the South (i think) - Bless their hearts. These poor lost souls have clicked, thumped, and pressed repeatedly on their mouse buttons as hard as they could until - somehow - they wound up here. According to StatCounter, this week's Google visitors arrived by entering actual phrases such as

• cyanid koolaid roatan
• photos of welders at bender shipyard in mobile, alabama
  
• blogger walking defuniak
• warrie blackburn

and, of course

• dehart's bible and tire

Welcome, one and all twelve of you. And stay away from the Kool-Aid. It's MINE.

Mildly Interesting Photos Of The Week

Actually-Very-Little-In-Common Edition

(15 & 17 Aug 2007 / Rocky Mtn Nat'l Park, CO / Casio EX-Z750)

Travelzoo Temptation Of The Week

(25 Aug 2002 / Livingston, Guatemala / Casio S110)

Do you like Ft. Lauderdale? No? Of course you don't! But you do have a reason to go there:

Spirit Airlines: Ft. Lauderdale to Central America For $0.01 Plus Tax

Don't worry. South Florida's not that bad. You won't even have to leave the airport.

Large Purchase Alert

Excluding our subsidized mattress (which may be the best thing we own in my opinion), we just bought the most expensive item of furniture ever in our entire married life.

I had been looking for a coffee table for a long time at the thrift stores, but apparently no one gives up coffee tables until they're (a) so ugly even a tablecloth won't help, or (b) no longer able to support their own weight.

I looked in other places, too, most notably our usual furniture source, which is the side of the road on Sunday nights. We have friends in other parts of town who come here to our neighborhood on Sunday nights because it's so highly regarded in the field of discard redemption. You have to be quick, though. And smart, or else the professional muscle, cruising in their Chevy Astros and converted landscaping trailers, will beat you to the really good stuff. K. had to physically sit on a particularly nice bookshelf once to fend off her fellow circling wolves while she dialed my number.

But enough about what we do for fun on the weekends. To be concise about it, there were no coffee tables worth having to be had. So i mustered up my financial courage Tuesday night and marched out to spend the money. Now we have a coffee table. It was $30 at Wal-Mart.

Signs Of A Fine Establishment, Pt. 44

(12 Apr 2007 / Fernandina Beach, FL / Casio EX-Z750)

Mildly Interesting Photos Of The Week

Small-Thoughtful-Critter Edition

(all three: 14-17 Aug '07 / Rocky Mtn NP, CO / Casio EX-Z750)

Signs Of A Fine Establishment, Pt. 43

(20 Oct 2007 / Jax, FL / Casio EX-Z750)