Owls, hitchhiker, and Mount Vesuvius

We went down to the courthouse in Venice to transfer the tags over to the new Jeep.  When we got out of the car, we noticed people looking up in the trees behind the parking lot.  We checked it out and it seems a Great Horned Owl and it's mate started a family in a nest way up high on an antenna over the building.  The babies were still in the nest, but dad was up in a tree watching over things.

We had never seen a Great Horned owl before.  Hard to tell, but this guy is about 2 feet tall!  Huge!  He looks quite regal and a bit terrifying as well, especially if you were a mouse trying to make a run for it across the parking lot.  He turned his head back and forth surveying his territory.

We watched for awhile, than headed in to pay the state of Florida vast quantities of sales tax and to become legal with our plate.
Jan came back and was going to take a bike ride, but had to deal with the little guy who was hitching a ride.

We have a device called a Sani-Con for our waste system.  It is a macerator pump that takes the waste from the tanks and pumps it through a small 1" hose into the campgrounds sewer.  This accessory came with our motorhome, an option as compared to the normal system which is gravity flow through a 3" hose.  A completely fool=proof system by the way.  What's nice about the Sani-Con is it is completely sanitary, waste, both black (from the toilet), and gray (from the sinks and shower) are chewed up and pumped under quite a bit of pressure, even uphill to wherever you want to dump.  Well, it was dump day today, so I opened the black tank, turned on the pump, and started the process of dumping the black waste into the campground's sewer.  It takes awhile so I decided to check the oil in the engine in the meantime.  While I was doing that, I thought I caught a whiff of something not so sweet.  Unusual.  So I go back to the hookup side of the coach, and there through a very small leak in the side of the hose is spraying not good stuff about 8 feet through the AIR!  Right toward my neighbor's motorhome!  Thankfully, he wasn't home to witness this exciting event.
Luckily, we have a back up hose, so after donning my hazmat suit, got things cleaned up, bleach poured all over the offending area, ran water everywhere to dilute it, replaced the hose, dumped the tanks, and even ordered a new hose.
Good times.