The wife and I got out early this morning and drove west on I-75 to the Indian rest stop, exited and drove north on Snake Road. We gathered the following pictures.

This is a Crested Cara Cara flying about.

Below, a beautiful butterfly…..

A Hawk

A yellow butted bee of some kind…

It was nice to get away from concrete for a spell.

SCG

I was just thinking . . .I wonder how many days it will be before Michael Jackson shows up in someone’s toast and they try to sell it on ebay?

I say within the week…..

SCG

I think people need to apply for a license before they are allowed to own a cell phone. And there should be a test involved too. Irresponsible cell phone ownership is rampart, and driving me straight into Crankytown.

Part of the licensing would be training in common sense civilized behavior. In other words:

• Don’t argue with your girlfriend, husband, mortgage company or Argentinian mistress on your cell phone at a play, movie, supermarket or yard sale. You screaming into your cell phone pollutes the air for people within earshot.
• Engaging in intimate conversations with your main squeeze isn’t appreciated either. We really don’t want to hear you make kissing and sucking noises into the cellphone.
• Business deals are double worse!
• How about this – don’t talk on the freaking cell phone for more than 56 seconds if you are in a public place where your personal conversation can easily be heard by others.

Here is the comparison. Cigarette smoking. Generally, no one on the planet would give a rat’s ass about you smoking, if you didn’t pollute the air around you with the stinking cancer causing smoke! Not to mention the bad breath, the stink on your clothes, in your car, in your home, in your office and on your beagle. But mostly the smoke. If you want to smoke, fine, but don’t force others to smoke with you! It is the same with cell phone use. If you want to jabber for 45 minutes fine, but don’t force everyone in the bread aisle of the supermarket to suffer along!  Eventually, cell phone use is going to be regulated like cigarette smoking.  Restaurants, grocery stores and Olympian Weasel Training Facilities will be cellphone free zones. Enforced by heavy fines or forced root beer enemas.

Now, there is another issue involving irresponsible cell phone ownership. NOT answering your cell phone! If you give everyone your cell phone number, then you have an obligation to answer your phone! Granted, if you are in a public place, limit your call to 56 seconds and don’t talk so freaking loud that you shatter Tupperware!

I have a close person in my life who has an expensive IPhone with the special wireless service. She has blue-tooth, wi-fi, text messaging, instant message, email, telepathy service and even phone service! Yet, trying to contact her is an exercise in futility most times. I have a better chance of contacting aliens on Mars by rigging seventeen Direct TV dishes together wired into my microwave.

Why can’t I contact my close friend?

40% of the time the ringer is deactivated

20 % of the time the phone is home in the bathroom.

15% of the time it is in the car.

10% of the time it is burried in the extreme deepest part of her purse where a 78 piece band couldn’t be heard

10% of the time the phone just won’t ring and she hasn’t a clue why.

5% of the time she actually has the phone with her, in reach, ringer on and she can hear the phone.

Some people just shouldn’t be allowed to own cell phones!

SCG