Tent Life

Despite my best efforts, I have still been unable to find a decent place to live in Okeechobee for less than a small fortune for rent. As far as paying big bucks to live in Okeechobee, I simply will not do it-I refuse.

So I'm still in this old trailer park for super-cheap rent. At least I'm banking some cash, but it sure is depressing. Here is a picture of the outside:

I recently returned from a trip up north to check on my real house, which I am apparently never going to get a chance to live in, to find mouse turds on my bed and God only knows what else is living in here. It looks like the place is infested after all.

Here is a picture of an Arizona Wolf Spider I found dead in the kitchen, so at least I know the pesticide I sprayed all around is working:

Regardless, after my latest attempt at finding decent housing failed today, I decided to go to Wal-Mart and buy a small tent to at least sleep in at night inside this trailer, so I can feel comfortable knowing that nothing will be coming out to suck my blood while I sleep....

Crazy Bitch

Moving Down in the World....

I recently moved from the Pier II Resort into this trailer park...........

Current View from My Porch

 .....in order to save up enough money to buy this $3,500 camera, not including the lens:

 

Canon EOS 5D Mark III

Goals: Live here, pay cash for this camera, then move back out to a nicer place.

I'll keep you posted as to whether I can pull this off...........

Pix of the week......

Not much going on this week. Here's some recent pictures.....

Pier II Resort

Pier II Pier

Swamp Egret

Green Heron

Little Blue Heron

Welcome to the Pier II

Okeechobee Nature Park

Kill the News

I must say that since I quit watching the liberal news shows, life has been a much more positive experience.I think this may have to be a permanent thing. Like I said before it doesn't really matter if I know what's going on anyway. Here's a little illustration I created regarding the news media:

March 10

New Watch

I got this unique-looking Seiko watch for my birthday. I'm at the age where I hate birthdays, but I still like getting gifts! Actually I received a little cash and then I picked this out on Amazon. It has a slight scratch on the crystal, and it was the last one in existence it seems, so I got a discount. I am looking forward to wearing this next time I go somewhere nice. I usually don't buy nice watches because they end up broken-I like G-Shocks- but I couldn't pass this up. Hopefully it's tougher than it looks, but I'll try to save it mainly for weddings and funerals. It's very retro/1950's/Jetsons. Here it is:

Seiko Retro-Kinetic

By the way, the watch arrived with an over-sized band, and I couldn't seem to remove the links to fit it to my wrist properly, so I brought it to Wolfgang's Jewelers in Okeechobee. Let me tell you, Mr. Wolfgang did a great job of removing the links and fitting this watch perfectly to my wrist in under 5 minutes for $5.00.

Wolfgang's Jewelers

These guys are really good. I highly recommend them. That's the weird thing about Okeechobee. You think you're in this hick town, but the local professional people are usually very capable, because if you suck you won't last long in such a small town. That's my theory anyway.