Monday, August 04, 2008

Is Florida the Sunset State?

Our County Manager sent around this eye-opening article about the State of Florida published in Time Magazine in July. It paints a pretty grim picture of our future, but I must say it makes me proud to be a North Floridian and not a South Floridian. Still, it does suggest that we all need to be more responsible with our resources and pay attention to what the legislature is doing with our taxes, regardless of what part of the state we're in. One of my favorite quotes from the article is from Carl Hiassen: "You don't have to be a wacko enviro to want your kids to be able to swim in a lake or maybe see an animal that isn't in a cage or a seaquarium. And even people who don't give a rat's a-- about the panther will care when saltwater comes out of their faucets."

Friday, August 01, 2008

Family Beach Pics

I didn't get many pictures on our beach trip because I didn't take my camera with us much. I'll have to get some of the pictures off of Mom's camera and post those later. We had a great time. It was the closest thing to a real vacation we've had since our honeymoon!





Beach Scenes





2008 Pepsi 400

Cody and I were able to go to the Pepsi 400 again this year in Daytona. We had a blast!




GO JR!!!!!!