Over the River

Okay, so more like over the Bay. I've been given a new county at work, across the Chesapeake Bay. And something happens when you cross that water, and its weird. The first time my supervisor and I ventured into the wilds of the county, we were in a gas station getting some hot chocolate to warm up, and saw a portly caucasian man in a long fur coat. No hat, no boots, just regular shoes and the fur coat. It was almost like when you go to the Renaissance Festival and people think it means "dress-in-whatever-you-want-Festival." Not sure if the fur was real or not. It would be even weirder if it weren't real, because where would you find a fake fur coat that huge?



This past Wednesday, yesterday, we went to a few older sites. And found a fishbait dispenser outside one of them. It's kind of like a soda dispenser, only it dispenses fish bait. This raises all kinds of questions, the first being, Do people actually use this thing? How often do they have to restock it? Do the baits get dizzy on their way down and then have to recalibrate themselves? Does it get too cold for them in the winter and freeze them? We didn't have time to test it out and see if it was working, but maybe we should have...