It's a beautiful morning - a misty moisty morning on Bonaire!

I kinna believe it - it's snowing out there! I don't think they mentioned it yesterday in my email weather. I get the feeling that they guess at the long-range forecast at the Weather Channel - don't you? What a job.

Hi Rusty,
maybe u're in 4 a white xmas!
I know I would like to have one. We almost never have snow with xmas

This is what it looks like this morning at my Dad's place - let it snow - as long as I'm inside where it's warm and dry!

Wow.....
Love the sight Rusty. Can I come over 4 xmas?
Please let it snow over here in a week! I love 2 walk in the forest when there's fresh snow. The sound of fresh snow under your feet...

Ahhh Rusty, nothing like the sight of fresh fallen snow in the US of A, when there is none up here in the great white north!!

We're entertaining Cheryl's work buddies tonight so I get to do the housework today. I'll peek in at spontaneous goof-off times!!!

Have a good one,

Bill

Hi Bill! Don't rub it in (massage joke) about the snow. We had such an easy winter last year, I'm afraid we're making up for it this year. We already have had more snow than the whole of last winter. Phht.

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1653 - Oliver Cromwell sworn in as English Lord Protector
1773 - Big tea party in Boston harbor (Boston Tea Party)
1809 - Napoleon Bonaparte divorces Empress Josephine
1897 - 1st submarine with an internal combustion engine demonstrated
1905 - "Variety," covering all phases of show business, 1st published
1915 - Albert Einstein publishes his "General Theory of Relativity"

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1485 - Catherine of Aragon, Spanish princess/1st wife of Henry VIII
1775 - Jane Austin, novelist (Pride & Prejudice)
1899 - Noel Coward, playwright (In Which We Serve-1942 Acadamy Award)
1939 - Liv Ullman, actress (Cries & Whispers, 40 Carats)
1947 - Ben Cross, actor (Chariots of Fire, Far Pavilions)

Fishy flurries from the archives!

Just poped in to say Hello. Rusty the snow looks realy pretty. We just got darkness and rain for a change, so I am just gonna put my feet up and

I didn't pope, I popped. LOL

Hi Annie! It's a great day to go back to bed and read under the covers. The dogs have already deserted me and done exactly that. Well, except for the reading. They're watching a video actually. LOL They love Snoopy and Charlie Brown's Christmas.



Going to make soup today - beef, tomatoes, onions and celery and lots of macaroni! Simmering soup always makes a cold snowy day seem cozier.

Morning Gals.. well today I start to decorate the tree..ugh..my tree not George's!!! Don't know how he is going to do that??? he'll have to hire a crane..
the snow at Dadz house is beautiful Rusty, I'm glad it's not here though!!!

mornin' annie b., rusty, igor, kay and billbot...hey billbot, i don't have company coming over but you can come straighten up our house there is a storm moving in, supposed to hit this afternoon and waves are supposed to be 16 feet! KAWABUNGA!! Keep good thoughts for our baby kelp, that they don't get washed away...if they can holdout for the winter, they will be growin' tall by next summer

rusty, love the pics. reminds me of when i lived in dc and used to drive up to "homer" new york to visit the mother in law (ex now)...i loved arriving and having the snow on the ground and then leaving it! LOL!

GMTA Rusty. I made soup today as well, except I just used some left over pork chopped up into small pieces, then added every single vegetable you can think of. Annie B.

Nice tree Freddie, you gotta show us what it looks like when decorated.

Cynde, Hope the storm don't hit too hard. Finders crossed for the baby kelp.

That us fingers crossed, and mine ain't working today by the looks of it. LOL

thanks gang...freddie, how tall is that tree?

the ceiling is 18 feet and in the stand it reachs!!

Hey gang, BBQ party at Jakes house, Jan 1st 3.00pm. Jakes gonna replace the cam so we can all join in. Who's coming? Annie B.

Flippin big tree Freddie, I would have to cut a whole in my ceiling to fit it in the house.LOL

It's...

Sleep Comfort Day

How important is sleep? It's essential to our total well-being. Sleep helps us feel healthier, think sharper, enjoy life more fully. Unfortunately, for millions of people, poor sleep and daytime weariness are facts of life

-Hi Everyone,
Hello, Rusty, Igor, Bill, Annie, Freddie and Cynde.

Freddie, Wow!! that is a monster of a tree, How long will it take you to decorate that one? Love to see it when its all decorated.

Rusty, lovely pics of the snow scene, would make a nice Chrismas card. the soup sounds good, ideal winter fuel.

Cynde. Hope the storm dont last too long.

Annie, I think that sleep pattern applies to me, I stay up too late.

Hello Maria, I keep saying that I will have an early night. It always turns out to be early morning though. LOL Annie B.

Hey Freddie!

You're gonna need a "Bumble" (if you know 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer') to put a star on the top of your tree!

To the uninitiated, that's an Abominable Snowman.

Hi Everyone. Jake just posted some Sea Turtle hatchings. etc. Under Bonaire Nature & Nature Organizations, under STCB (Sea Turtle Conservation Bonaire) Check it out.

Ho Ho Ho, Freddie made a funny! Hire a *crane*! LOL

A nitediver - but too far away to see anyone when I tried to brighten it. Darn!



Charlotte, Satchmo and one of the Spike Brothers:





Jo Coney:



Sunset for my friends!

I was fixun to post a sunset also, Rusty, you beat me to it. Here's another winter shot to chill out the WWW's (warm water wusses, Oh to be one).

Cynde, if the baby kelp is below 20 feet it should survive. The stuff that gets torn lose is in shallower water or the fronds have grown close to or up to the surface. The weather here seems like it is coming from the south-east, but all of the news channels have been showing the surf at west facing beaches.

My office cube smells like a florist shop today, I picked a couple of paper narcissius from my front yard on the way to my car this morning.

linnea, the kelp that we have planted is in a depth between about 20-35 feet. so far it has hung in there, but some of the plants are still pretty small (2 feet or less) and those are the ones that we are worried about. the small ones survived the reminents of the hurricane that came up from mexico a couple of months ago. depends on how strong the surge, swells, and sets get....bet the wedge is kickin' it up! we got quite a bit of wind down in san clemente/dana point way. went by to check on the boat and there were quite a few people checking on theirs as well. half the cover was blown off! boy do we need this rain though!