SCORPION....YIKES

My sister lives in a remote corner of Florida, down a dirt road to a dirt path to a dirt driveway and once there, you are greeted by this intimidating site.  Turns out he has a pleasant personality, as do the other two dogs.

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Here is an image of the guineas (spl?) with that peacock.

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My sister had to drive to Gainesville for a seminar so I was left alone with all the beasts.  My job today was to dispose of the remnants of the structure I tore down in the llama pen.  I approached the herd warily. 

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They are supposed to be gentle but those teeth and that really dumb look they perpetually carry with them makes me doubt they can distinguish me from a hay bale.  Plus the hoofs appear to be able to deliver a sharp kick.  Anyway, I entered the pen and began dragging stuff to a burn pile.

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As I pulled shingled from a piece of sheet metal, movement caught my eye and there was a small chameleon and then saw some other movement,,,

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...and a scorpion skittered under a piece of wood. Cool, my first encounter with a scorpion.

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  Cleaned up and drove to Winter Garden where I jumped on the bike and rode a very hilly West Orange bike path towards Clermont, Todd Lee's favorite place to ride in FL.  A giant sand dune crosses the state here and produces an "Ohio-like" terrain kind of like what we have around the foothills of Hocking Hills maybe.  An approaching line of severe weather forced me to cut short the ride but I can see that if Todd were able to train here every day for a year, he might be able to crawl back up with the A group (on flat rides).

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