live. work. dream.

OK, it wasn’t the Space Shuttle.

I wasn’t even close enough to hear it.

It was over much faster than expected.

And René had the camera while out weeding the fields so I have no nifty pictures of my own to show.

But it was exciting nonetheless.

Thanks to Florida Today’s Flame Trench Blog, it was almost like I was right at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station launch pad SLC-17.

Almost.

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The morning we left Jetty Park for Vero Beach after discovering the shuttle launch was not going to happen, we decided to pack up quick and beat the crowds to the dump station.

It was early but we still weren’t first in line. Everyone was heading out, except for those just waking to make breakfast.

As we dumped our tanks using our new clear hose adapter, René glanced at the nearby rigs, smelled the air and said, “Yum, Bacon and Turds!”

Why did we get one of those clear dump hose adapters, you ask?

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