Odds And Ends

Just a collection of pictures and videos I have taken of various things, people and activities.

Photo Not Mine (Duh, obviously)

This is the HMS Bounty sinking off the Carolinas in Hurricane Sandy.  All were saved except a ship hand and her Captain.  She was on her way to St. Petersburg for winter docking.  I would have liked to have seen her.  Its like when I went up to see Cary Grant in his one man show in the late 80's only to discover he was a no-show.  Later found out he died.

She was a replica of the original and was used in the 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty starring Marlon Brando and Trevor Howard.  To assuage my regret, the Titanic Exhibit is in St. Pete and going to see it next week.





A few weeks ago I mentioned here on EIBFE that there are trucks that simply ply the main streets down here with billboards.  Here is a video I took of one of them.  Ingenious?  Silly?  Yeah, both.

I was stuck at the Mall children's play area.  That's a particular circle of Hell that needs its own commentary one day, but suffice to say, Dante was a piker compared to this.  Little creatures rolling around, scratching their asses, flying, leaping.  Well, it's like a trip to the dentist only with more pain.






While at the Vinoy with Norah I couldn't help notice a mommy and new baby exercise class.  You may have to turn up the sound for this one.  The instructor, who must have got her training at Birkenau,  was forcefully directing her new mothers into various twists and stretches.  Hard to see from this distance was the carriages/strollers.

July 4th Tournament 

  

Memorial Day Tournament

The above pictures are from the Oak View Country Club website where it appears Mark and Holly won their respective classes for the 4th of July and Memorial day tournaments.  The Wombie and Holly are good golfers and as I have mentioned on this blog before, they are both members of the Hole-In-One club.  I have never seen Holly play, but I can tell you Mark's style, which looks a lot like one of those one-man motorized post-hole diggers getting hung up on a tree root.  But he is tricky good.  A fast swing gives way to stunning accuracy, amazingly good distance, great chipping abilities and dead-on putting.    If there is any weakness its his taste in shirts.  (Just joking Wombie)

Turn up your sound again for this one to get the full effect.  After kissing the garbage can Norah decides to give herself a couple of good ones, too.


 

At the park I spotted this squirrel with a string.  Dangling out its ass.  I don't know what's going to happen with this little tree rat, but it probably won't be good.

It was nice seeing Judy Clayton from Galesburg during Thanksgiving week.  Judy is a friend not only from my days at Blick, but from the old car circuit, too.  She owns a Pontiac Fiero that doesn't get out and shown near enough.  She was down visiting her 2 daughters who live in the state.  It was nice to hear the news from G-Burg, Blick and her adventures in deep sea fishing and area hospitals.

This gecko hopped up onto the hood of Kenzie's car and hung on for the longest time...

My daycare charge insists on walks everyday.  Yes, it's like herding a cat, but I have discovered that if you go long enough, far enough and with some speed, it get here in the mood for a nap.  (In the interest of honesty, the above video is not a child desperately wore out.  Norah found something interesting on the driveway and bent down to investigate, then found another item to look at. )

Kenzie is an office manager type person at Piper Fire in Largo, Florida.  This week she got a surprise when she received a little note from a disgruntled customer.  Seems they were upset with the charges on the bill after they called for an emergency dispatch to see what was going on with his smoke detector.  The thing was squawking so the technician took the battery out.  Since it was a weekend emergency run, the bill was expensive.  Looks like a $267.00 tab to take a battery out of the smoke alarm.  I suppose it would be no different than if you had a plumber out at 3:00 am to unplug a toilet.  But, man, what an expensive battery remover, and the guy let Piper know what he thought.  It's enough to give me the vapors!