The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: traffic light

  • An Osprey Update

    Last year I wrote a few blog entries about a pair of ospreys that had built a nest on the traffic light of one of the drawbridges where I work. In the first entry, Battle of the Birds, I talked about how this couple would build their nest, and then the Department of Transportation would…

  • Government Conspiracy: The Great Oxymoron

    I have a basic philosophical difference with someone I love very much. He thinks that large scale governmental, or even global, conspiracies are possible. I on the other hand, think that’s doolally with a capital doo. I suppose it boils down to which you think is more powerful: government evil or government stupidity. Having worked…

  • Battle of the Birds

    It seems you can’t sling a dead cat without hitting an osprey nest here in Northeast Florida these days, which I happen to think is a wonderful thing. Just a few short years ago, they were a rare occurrence indeed. From where I sit on the drawbridge where I work, I can see 4 nests.…

  • A Really Bad Day in the Life of a Bridgetender

    1:00 – 5:00 am: Dog periodically wakes up, dry heaving, causing me to periodically wake up. He has gotten into the landlady’s compost heap again. 6:15 am: Alarm goes off. I sit up in a fog. Room spins. I feed dogs, one of whom is predictably not hungry. Let the dogs out, watch them head…