TDW 1756 - The Reminders Of Old Florida
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just cruising the back roads of St Cloud
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Florida the last weekend I'll be around
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here I'm going to turn left where that
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truck's pulling out cuz there's
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something I want
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to document welcome everyone Adam the
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man that sun is super super bright it's
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my second channel daily Vlog channel
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it's a and the daily woo good thing I'm
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wearing these stylish Shades I'm always
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looking at concrete and the names that
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people inscribe in it this looks like it
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was carved out of leaves or maybe the
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maybe the bottom feet regions of a
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bird did you write your name in the
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concrete listen there's a bird up
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there I hear birds chirping I hear
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children laughing today I'm going to
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check out Peg Horn Nature Park and TR
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whoa what are these are those nah they
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couldn't be as you arrive at the trail
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head Center there's a chalkboard and
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they have written enjoy a walk through
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our historical Village and walking trail
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through the woods and it looks like
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ferns have taken their place here along
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the sidewalk you know what this is for
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right this is for cleaning your shoes
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off mostly for like mud off your boots
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I'm not wearing boots I'm wearing tennis
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shoes but that's what that's for you
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want to have clean shoes when you go
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inside I'm not going inside however I'm
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going to wander around the premises next
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to this ouse is a piece of Old Farm
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Equipment and even though this is from
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way back in the day reminds me out of
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something from the future like out of
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Star Wars doesn't this look like some
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sort of pod racing thing from Star Wars
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I've heard stories from a few of my
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friends whose parents and grandparents
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that used to have an ouse whenever they
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would get indoor
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PLO this door doesn't open this door is
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like I don't think that's meant to be
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opened wa a
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second no they have it they have it
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screwed in there so you can't open it
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which has to make you wonder did someone
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actually go inside there but I've heard
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stories back when indoor plumbing became
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a popular thing that those that heard
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about the news would say why would
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anyone want to stink up the inside of
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their home and it looks like they have
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transplanted some orange trees and back
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in the day Mr orange bird here was the
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mascot of the Citrus industry such a
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cute little
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guy oh yeah these these are a little bit
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more developed but then again they might
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be tangerin these are all part of the
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citrus
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family I don't have a green thumb I I
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just enjoy eating them I don't I don't I
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don't I don't know what they look like
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this property is 3 or 4 miles from the
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downtown area of St Cloud and back in
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the 90s I can remember this canery being
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located on the other side of town near
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the downtown area and now they moved it
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here to save it for posterity very
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reminiscent of an old barn one out of
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Friday the 13th Part three the one where
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Jason Vorhees originally got his mask
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and he was like inside
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something sh I'm going in I'm going
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in these old mason jars of course used
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for canning that's where the building
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got its name and check this out Mountain
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Valley mineral water I guess bottle
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water has been around for a heck of a
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lot longer than a lot of us realize
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there's an old newspaper article there
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on the wall from the sa Cloud Tribune
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Community Canon kitchen began operation
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today wow that was a long long time ago
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and it does seem pretty safe in here
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however if you were to climb this ladder
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and if that lock was busted right
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there he would come out to meet
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us he's up there in the
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attic at least at least that's my
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interpretation and way before GPS you
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had to rely on these these wooden planks
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designating the mileage to the the towns
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and cities in this neck of the woods
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Okala Tampa Miami CMI
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okobi nit the next town over CMI has a
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Pioneer Village very reminiscent to this
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property here this Schoolhouse however
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here in St Cloud I think is a little
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more rustic and old school than the
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counterpart just down the road and look
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at this owl he's protecting these
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flowers from the bird there's no bird
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birs out here you have thwarted the
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birds
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Hitchcock would not be proud there's
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just something to be said about these
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old timey log
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cabins man that is what an era to be
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living in back then how cool would that
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have been
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1890 you would have gone to
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class
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inside this little building
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oh imagine staring at that what if you
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had that seat what if you had that seat
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next to that cow's
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skull oh my gosh look what they have
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no way I've talked about these in the
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past when I was homeschooled oh my gosh
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this one from 1964 I was homeschooled
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for a few years and we would read out of
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these McGuffy readers and I went to a
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Christian School when I was very young
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and they also used the McGuffy readers
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this brings back a lot of memories you
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don't see these too much
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anymore how I ever fit Behind These
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desks it's beyond me and just to give
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you an idea of where in Florida I am
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right now you can see someone with a
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sharpy has written St Cloud
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CMI right in the middle of the state I
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like the theming of this
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too this light looks like a lantern if
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you walk close and back up to it it
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turns off there goes it turns off and
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on it's just a light bulb up in there
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but it looks like a little a little lit
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flame I like that did you ever do any
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learning inside there did you get your
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learning on what' you learn lizard it's
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probably been about 4 years since I've
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been out here I don't remember this
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blacksmith shot being here before I got
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to check this out DOC The
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Horseshoe above the door as we
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enter
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oh
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wow look at this this is I think for
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oxen or maybe a horse would spin this
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mechanism around I could be wrong cuz I
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don't know if you'd bring large farm
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animals inside here but what else would
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this be used for it's hanging from this
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rope into a
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long stick or a
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log and then it goes down into this sort
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of
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Contraption there's a metal tube which
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runs into
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here okay this is probably heated up
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this is like a fire of some sort you can
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see the charred
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ashes but how does this work okay this
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looks like this goes up and
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down exomes air through there and keeps
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the flame lit to mold the Horseshoes I
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think that's it and you'd lay the steel
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or iron right here
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and you smash it into the design you so
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choose rusted out old
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saw along the wall and look at this like
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ice
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pick little bit of tetanus floating
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around in here like oh my goodness you
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could do some Ser oh is this an Altoid
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box look at this Altoid box if you push
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up and down on this see how the air goes
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in and out of that that's pretty
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cool that's how you got things done
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around these parts if you look very
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closely you can see bubbles protruding
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up through the algae right around in
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this area you see that there's little
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pockets of air coming to the surface A
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good rule of thumb to have when you're
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in Florida it's pretty much any body of
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water no matter what size especially
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low-lying there is a possib ility of
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alligators sometimes when you're driving
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down the roads around here you'll see
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palm trees lining the streets but rarely
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do you see them where there's like a big
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conglomeration of them with no order
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whatsoever there's just a ton of palm
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trees just growing randomly here not in
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a single file line that's normally how
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you see them here in Florida or maybe in
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movies California where they're lining
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the
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roads this is just like a huge mish mash
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of palm trees on the back path behind
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the buildings that were relocated here
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but this was not relocated this was
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probably here from way back in the day
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what year was this what was it used for
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who really knows but this is the kind of
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stuff I really enjoy finding and seeing
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there is a deck that has been built
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leading normally to what is the swamp
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but hasn't been a lot of rain around
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these parts lately so it's kind of dried
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up what fascin Ates me are these things
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which I always refer to as corn dog
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plants that's not the specific
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scientific term but that's what I call
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them eating one of those probably is not
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tasty and probably not wise you'd
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probably have an into the wild moment
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the stick hanging here reminds me of
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something out of the Blair Witch Project
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and I'm going to give you a little
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disclaimer a pathetic joke is about to
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happen so close your ears if you don't
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want to hear hey what what are all these
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pieces of wood doing out here
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randomly I'm
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stomped one thing that's interesting to
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me is there's a main road right over
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there but there's all this Wildlife here
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nature and
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progress working together as one the
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whole time I've been out here the entire
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time I've been out here I haven't ran
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into another human being
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yet what if the swamp things out there
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there is something in the Shrubbery
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there hear
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there oh my gosh that's startling me a
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little bit now I could be
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incorrect I probably am incorrect but
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are these used for storing bees you know
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what no they're not they look like them
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but I think they're just stair steps so
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when it rains heavily and this whole
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area gets flooded but these look very
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similar to The Bee boxes that beekeepers
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use I don't know where my mind was
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definitely no Bees
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thankfully I don't want to have a mcau
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caulin moment out here but now the real
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issue at hand is there's a fork in the
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road do I go this way or do I go that
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way this could prove every
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Theory Bigfoot does
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exist he crushed that like a twig one
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interesting thing to think about look at
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the elevation of this bridge but then
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the sign says no trespassing Trail is
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temporar closed due to high water of
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course the sign is taken down so I'm
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allowed to walk across here but think
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about that the water could get so
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incredibly high in the Rainy times that
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it comes up here and floods
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this entire
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Bridge The Creeks The Creeks all along
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here are not instilling me with a great
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vote of
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confidence one thing you'll notice
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around these parts below trees like this
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are something called Cypress knees which
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are just little teeny tiny project
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tiles protruding up from the ground
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Cypress knees pretty cool cool right I'm
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assuming they were given the name
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because they look like a
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knee right there for some reason this
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looks like an animal to me see the hind
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legs and then the body stretching along
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parallel to the ground and then a neck
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almost like a giraffe neck that is a
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tree right
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there I've never seen anything like that
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it's like the animal
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tree wonder if it has a
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name
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it's very beautiful out here that's for
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sure well if you can get past the fact
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that we're being
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watched we're being watched there's eyes
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there's eyes watching
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us what the heck that was a pretty long
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walk we went completely around to the
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opposite side of the complex started way
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over there went way that way looped all
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the way around through the wilderness
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and popped out back on this
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side nice as best I can tell this used
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to be a butterfly garden and I'm getting
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that idea from this metal sign that has
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eroded away and if you look over here
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there are some butterfly designs some of
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them have been removed but a few still
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exist and let's be completely honest is
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there a more Majestic bug or a creature
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than a butter wait is a butterfly a bug
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either way it's very beautiful there's
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also a section out here called education
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Gardens and it looks like they are
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constantly growing plants in fact you
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can see they're watering some as we
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speak I really enjoy looking at plants
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and vegetables things that are being
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grown but me per se I do not have talent
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in that area so it always fascinates me
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when others do it very well there is
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just a cornucopia of goodness up here in
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Oh My Gosh Look they're not ripe but
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those are bananas up there this will be
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my final weekend here in Florida and I'm
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kind of thankful for that because it is
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starting to get very warm I'm looking
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forward to it I've been in Florida a
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while I have family here I have friends
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here I have a lot of things I enjoy but
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it's always good to keep moving and
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that's what I'm going to
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remember the canery I showed earlier and
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how I said they moved it from one spot
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to where it is now well that spot is
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right here see where this tree is and
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that dumpster in this other house it was
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on this side of that that house next to
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that tree but the tree Still Remains
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it's a pretty epic
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tree I was a child climb oh I think I
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just saw a blue jay yeah check it out
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there's a blue jay right there flying
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through the air I have a very
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interesting mindset when it comes to
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hometowns and what I consider to be a
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HomeTown now I lived here the longest of
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any place my parents moved here in
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1991 but before that we lived in a lot
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of different places I was born in
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Mississippi I lived in Alabama for a
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very short while lived in the panhandle
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of Florida I lived in
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Oklahoma so it's really hard for me to
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go back to places and really have one
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particular
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Hometown I would say probably this one
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as far as my adult life goes I would say
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this one would be my
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hometown but there's a lot of hometowns
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for me not just here there's childhood
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hometowns and there's young adult adult
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life Hometown I I don't know if I'm
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making any