Miami Tropical Bonsai

I have been coming here for about 10 years. 275 dollars later I have a new pot for Sarah's scheflera, quality soil, and two ficus trees to work on.

The nursery has a nice and simple Japanese influenced garden out front that gave Sarah and I some good ideas for the back yard.

Too late to make it to the gardens but we did get to see a family of 5 racoons.

Day 6

Going back up to the Miami area again today. This time to see Fairchild Tropical Gardens. I have been a few times in my life but Sarah has never been. FTG is a HUGE botanical garden just south of Miami.
Still have yet to ride this week. Normally that would bother me but its not for lack of staying busy.

Walked down the steps to take out the trash this morning a made an interesting discovery. Inside one of the open trashcans was a very rough looking Opossum. I'm guessing he had been in there at least a day or two. He was looking VERY dehydrated and tired enough that he was not interested in hissing and thrashing around. I put down a dish of water and some pretzels in the corner and put the trash can on its side. When we left he was still in there. As soon as I figure out how to upload pictures from my phone I will...

hork

Got food poisoning. Threw up 4 times while snorkling. Turns out fish love barf. I was surrounded by 500 very happy fish. I have not thrown up since I was 5. I'm not saying I enjoyed blowing chunks but it was essentially a new experience for me. Interesting. I actually was instantly surrounded by fish which was pretty cool.

Also saw a 5 foot long barracuda. Much cooler than watching mongoloids stagger around Key West.

Day 1

Left work at about 5:30 Friday and rushed home. Let the dogs out. Parents arrived a short bit later followed by Sarah. After grabbing food, packing, and giving the pet sitter some last minute instructions it was into the van and onto the highway. The drive began at 7:30PM. About 18 hours later we rolled into Marathon Key in south Florida. We did make a stop in a south Florida park which I really don't remember much of. Went to the grocery store, cooked some burgers, passed out with the plan being to get up early Sunday and begin vacation for real.

Late...

I don't pretend to be up on current music. I stopped actively seeking out new stuff a few years ago. I'm not bored with the records I own so why spend money on new ones? I finally got a few new things that actually get me as excited as the old standbys.

Cursed-III: Amazing. The first time I listened to it I hated it. After I and II this is a big change. The production is VERY different. But after a few listens it is really growing on me. Just as brutal (usually an overused adjective but oh so appropriate when talking about this band). One of the select few hardcore bands that I have heard in the last 5 years that is actually putting out groundbreaking material. Alas I hear they called it quits...



Disfear-Live The Storm: It's been a long time since a band gave me the unstoppable urge to circle-pit in my own room. Motorhead meets 90s hardcore meets crust. I would even crawl out of my hole in Northside to catch these guys live. I just wanna get it off! Get it off my back!

Not really sure what is up withe Mountain Dew Images... but this is the first track off the album in question...



And... while looking for clips I discovered that Cursed made a low-budget music video...

Note to self...

Racing back to back cross races the same day is not nearly as fun as racing back to back crits.