Sun is up in Bonaire. Today is THINKING Day. Good thing, too, because I'm taking the MTEL exams today. So, aside from starting the thread, probably won't get back here. Take over, Rusty.

John, no looking at anybody else's test for the answers! Good luck!

Thinking Day

I'm thinking I sure wish I was on Bonaire - beautiful sunny morning there!

Thinking about getting into that warm water. Very raw cold day here (and there Rusty), I swear the coldest temperature is 32 degrees, wind and 100% humidity. Sucks the heat right out of you.

Cecil - it's yucky out, chilly and grey and just waiting to storm. I got a firsthand look at the weather a couple minutes ago.

Our resident Great Blue Heron was at BoxerBob's pond, right outside his *office* window downstairs, and he was just standing there *shopping* for fresh fish. He lunged! He scored! And he sucked down one of our Shubunkin goldfish. That &*$@^&(@(^$!!



It's funny when he misses and he's soaked and has to go preen and dry out up in the spruces but I'm never seen him actually catch one of our fish. I rapped on the window - I was laughing and incensed at the same time - and chased him off.

He'll be BACK but he'll have to contend with a quarter inch mesh square I laid over the open water around the pond heater. Grr. He can visit but I don't want him using the ponds as an all-you-can-eat buffet.



I'm a lousy biologist that way - I love the predators for their beauty and necessary place in the world - but NOT IN MY NEIGHBORHOOD!

I checked out the archives for reefer shots and came up with a couple interesting pictures - the first one is Cecil's Pudgies or whatever they're called:



Bouillabaise - ooh la la!



And our main man, Satchmo, swimming in the murk:

To funny about the Blue Heron, manificent birds thou. Near my friends house in Goffstown there's a Blue Heron nesting pond. In the spring it's unbelievable the noise and confusion so many chicks can cause. There must be 50 nests with at least two chicks in each. I've got some pictures somewhere but I'm sure they have not been scanned.

Cecil - do they stand around UP the trees? It is so odd to see these long-legged birds standing on a branch twenty feet up a tree!? I've only heard of one rookery around here and haven't ever seen it - guess it's in the middle of a swampy area and they make huge stick nests in the dead trees.

Hi all,

Raining, dull, slightly above freezing. Could end up being a barely tolerable day or a real bummer!!

Hunker down and wait it out.

Daughter Alison (univ. student) returns from a week in Cancun today. Went with 8 friends. I wonder if we'll ever here the whole story? (HA!)

Questions for Martin and technos. - I downloaded MS IE version 6 last week. Noticed recently that links on web pages involving "javascript" don't work. I assume this is the boring pain in the..... issue between Sun and MS. How do I enable javascript on the browser?

From the Windoze PC that likes to be restarted several times a day!

Cheers,

Bill

Damn,

English and brain dead. I constantly put "here" and "hear" in the wrong place!! And, of course, the spell checker doesn't spot it. Better compose these things in the WP first!

IQ falling.................

Bill

Hi everyone. We have heron that visits us every year for a free meal. Last year it even brought it's baby. They sit on the fooftops and wait to see when you aren't looking. Crafty, crafty bird. Annie B.

This looks enjoyable.

Rusty, the nests are very large and at the top of dead pine trees. Alot like the Eagle/Osprey nests. I don't see those feet working very well on branches.

when the fog freezes...



girlfriend had a "cute" name for this stuff but i'm going to let someone else mention it ;)

yeah cecil, that cold damp stuff justs goes right thru a body...warm after it burns off though...

Wow Bob, that's an amazing picture.
Are you still sending that storm up to Ontario?
(Feel free to direct it elsewhere.....)
Jill

morning buddies! i know i am going to get the cybersnowalls for this, but sunny and a fairly warm day today on the left coast have another field trip outing today down at the harbor for our celestial navigation class to do a noon sighting, but this time timed so we can calculate both the latitude and longitude...

rusty, i would be hacked too if the heron took one of my babies! bob, cool picture...my brain ain't awake yet, but what was the "cute" name she had for it? i think it looks pretty from here (in the warm part of the world!)

bill, you will get "the whole story" when she is an adult with kids, that's the safest time to tell your parents exactly all the things you did that they wouldn’t have approved of! LOL! have to admit, there are some things i still haven't told mom shall we have a confessional? anyone game?

1. snuck into the san diego zoo at NIGHT, when i was 16 (first date and didn't want to appear to be a woos, but i was scared to death we were going to get caught)...
2. ran into the freezer in the garage with my mom's big cadillac trying to park it after a night out with my friends (somewhere in the 16 age range again)...

have to think of some others...didn't do too much after 18 cause i moved out of the house the day i turned 18, so i was legal at that point!

Actually, I don't think I have ever done anything bad in my whole life. But then again my standards are mighty low!! :-)

Yikes! Snow Storm is here!
Hi Charlotte!

WooHoo! 700 posts!

700 posts Eileen! Break open the champagne! (Any excuse eh?)
Stay warm!
Jill

Eileen,

No snow here just drizzle, cold and yuck! No amount of heat makes the house feel warm. You just look outside and get a chill.

Feel the heat!!!


Bill

It's stopped snowing for now here, we'll see what happens next! Yes champagne for the cold too! I feel the heat!

hey cynde,

i had to look up the term...it's french;)

"hoar frost"

;)

lol bob

Bob, it's called

hoar·frost (hôr“frôst”) n. Frozen dew that forms a white coating on a surface. Also called white frost.

It is so VERY pretty.