Well I have been "Taxed" lately by not reading up on these pages...house got me down! Rusty!!!!! you are going to Long Island for Easter!!!! And Cecil is off to Bonaire! Shame on me! I had to read back a week of posts to get that info!
Well it's tax day here in the US..everyone here mail in theirs?....Does Bonaire have income taxes????

Hi Meryl! I was thinking of you this morning. Was telling BoxerBob about your taxing problem with the plumber's helper. Grrr - it's a shame that he had to slow you down. I'm sure you're anxious to get into the new house. With your stuff in storage - where are you staying now? Camping out with the bare necessities?

Yep, my first visit to Long Island. I couldn't have a better tour guide than Freddie, I bet!

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1738 - Bottle opener invented
1800 - James Ross discovers North Magnetic pole
1878 - Harley Procter introduces Ivory Soap
1964 - Chesapeake Bay Bridge opens
1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1452 - Leonardo da Vinci, painter/sculptor/scientist
1812 - Rousseau, painter
1843 - Henry James, writer (Bostonians)
1933 - Elizabeth Montgomery, actress (Samantha-Bewitched)
1959 - Emma Thompson, actress (Howards End)

Morning Meryl. Long time no see. How's the house building coming along, and how are the birdies doing.

Rusty. I bet you are so excited, and I bet Freddie's excited, oh am I am just excited for ya too. Annie B

It's...

Art History Day

What do you call art? There are so many answers, you can't be wrong. Anything visual - starting with the primitive drawings of cavemen. Traditional paintings, decorative arts and crafts, architecture, landscape design, photography, film, commercial design. Find your favorite art form, artist or painting - or just browse around.

http://witcombe.sbc.edu/ARTHLinks.html

'ello Annie! Wouldn't it be cool if you could be here when we turn Long Island upside down?

We're looking at 80 degrees today! Can I get a brothers and sisters?

ugh!!!!!


will be getting on a and going past the Groton base, {that will be on the left hand side when you are leaving the Conn, Harbor..}
If you are willing, we will go to the aquarium and to the Montauk
and I'm sure we will hit a winery or two..
Gosh This was not easy hope I got it all in!!!

Don't forget to peek in occasionally at the pair of falcons in NY! Despite the recent ice and snow - things are progressing as they should.

Peregrines Sitting on Five Eggs!

And that's just the first day, right

Then there's the tour of the all-you-can-eat joints - shrimp one day and Chinese the next!

Looking forward to walking the dogs on the beach in the morning, rain or snow or sleet or sun!

Oh yeah, and we mustn't forget the obligatory visit to the Shinnecock Cam to wave to the folks in the audience at home.

LOL

oops boy that took three times to finally get the .gifs thought i crashed!!!

I made it! It was slow but I managed to get all those animations in. And here we were cussing out Bill Gates and his invention. LOL

It does seem to bog down sometimes - bottleneck on the internet?! Then occasionally I get that LOCKED message and have to go back and re-enter all the files for upload. Maybe because we were both posting?

don't cha hate it when the caps are locked!!!!

Shinnecock

Boy, you think two minutes lasts forever when you're waiting for the cam to catch you waving - this cam is a fifteen minute refresh. We better bring a cooler with us, Freddie.

You know - I don't seem to have a single SHRIMP gif. However can that be? Got lobsters and crabs and even some Cajun crawdaddies - but no shrimp. Unless I filed them in the wrong place. I looked in my Crustaceans and Food folders. Best I can come up with is a shrimp boat.

Don't forget to hold up a sign! We'll be looking for you! Both on the Shinnecock Cam and the BT cam!

Sally might be a bit of a time lag between the two showings!! about a 10 hour difference!!!! However it is DO-ABLE!!!!

Hi We looked at the cam the other day and it looks like we need a bedsheet for a nice HI BT sign.

Freddie - we should be able to give a heads-up here in CHAT before we go down there, right?! LOL

You know, I'm already grinning and bursting out into peals of laughter and I'm not even there yet. And wait til you meet my dive buddy, Wenda - once we get to laughing it's DEPENDS time. Now I know why the internet community coined and for times like this!

So...whaddya waiting for? Get down to your local Dollar General and pick up a bed sheet and some spray paint!

Go on! Git!

Sheesh!

I'm looking into the purple hat inventory tomorrow at our local Salvation Army! (My Dadz kind of looked at me funny when I suggested it.) Sounds like the perfect place to find a couple. Who'd actually BUY them, except us?

Heads or tails?

Rusty I just solved the problem of what to put the letters on!! Just confiscated a BIG white BOX...

Well I bin out digging the garden again and moving stuff into pots. I can't throw anything away, so I made two hanging baskets out of some bits and pieces that I dug up. Chives in the middle, columbine round the edge and some trailing alpine plant that I don't recognise at the moment. LOL If they don't survive, then i haven't lost anything have I. It's a lovely warm sunny day.

Gonna leave you girlies to chit chat while I go back into the sunshine again.

Whoops I nearly forgot.

Rusty, Freddie, I wish I was coming too.

Darn Annie a couple of weeks ago the fares were only about 279 US round trip from Heathrow

morning gang...gee, i wish rusty and freddie were just a TAD more excited! LOL! i'ts gonna be a ball...just remember to take lots of pics so we can virtually be there with you

rained all day yesterday, hard...still cloudy this morning so I don't know what today will be like, but i got to open my blinds in my office windows yesterday, was nice

hey gang, carol eddy just checked in on the webcam thread, she is at michael gaynor's cyber cafe just down from jake and linda's...here is what she said:

"I forgot my sign so look for me - fish T-shirt, pink shorts and hat, Bruno has on yellow T-shirt and blue shorts."

i gotta start getting ready for the work gig...someone keep an eye out for her and bruno!

Carol and Bruno! Good to see you!

Good morning, ladies. Nice here today, but the wind isn't going to let it get as warm as at Rusty's. Daffodils are almost ready to open--maybe this afternoon. Sounds like quite a weekend R&F. Hope Long Island can recover.

Carol Eddy visits the door cam:





PS-- Amercan Airlines Net Savers has Boston to Lonon RT at $269 for travel April 23 - 30.

Guess I shouldn't take so much time typing. Rusty beat me to it.

Diver!



Hey John, sorry about that - I was just walking away and they showed up!

Boy, the fares are cheap right now. That's less than I've paid for RT to Florida some years!

Have a gorgeous day here in the Baystate, huh John?

See you later on - I have to go out back and enjoy the sunshine! I don't want to get to Freddie's looking like white bread.

Ah, yes. Sun tans. My younger daughter leaves for Costa Rica a week from tomorrow with her AP Environmental Science class. Given our recent weather (today excluded), she has been doing 10 minute sessions at the local tanning parlor in preparation for the trip.

Wrasse attack.

Hi guys


What's the weather like over there then?

As Annie says we have hot hot hot weather here - 23 degrees today. Very unusual, and very very nice.

hi jenni!

just talked to my mom, and she is home from the hospital...i hate to admit it, but i am checking into the ADT Alert systems (the "i've fallen and can't get up) so that next time all she has to do is push a button and help will come...only 35 bucks a month, not bad.

this is how i feel today

Hi cynde

Those 'get help' things are wonderful when folks still want to be independent, but are occasionally vulnerable and need help.

I think getting your name off the IRS must be similar as trying to get your name off an unsolicited eg Penis Enlargement email address list.
Seemingly impossible!!!!

rotflmao jenni, i must get at least 15 to 20 of those spams a day at work!

I know. I block and block and block, and still they find a way to get through. What an absolute drag!!

Here's what I'M talking about today...

Rusty this is supposed to be a shrimp..
and shrimp on the barbi.....

Shrimp

Nice sunset Margarite. Here's one from Raymond tonight where's it's only a little cooler than Bonaire today.

Internal Revenue Service Theme Song

Tax his cow, Tax his goat;
Tax his pants, Tax his coat;
Tax his crop, Tax his work;
Tax his ties, Tax his shirt;
Tax his chew, Tax his smoke
Teach him taxing is no joke.
Tax his tractor, Tax his mule;
Tell him, Taxing is the rule.
Tax his oil, Tax his gas
Tax his notes, Tax his cash
Tax him good and let him know,
That after taxes, he has no dough.
If he hollers, Tax him more;
Tax him till he's good and sore.
Tax his coffin, Tax his grave,
Tax his sod in which he's laid.
Put these words upon his tomb,
"Taxes drove him to his doom."
After he's gone, we won't relax.
We'll still collect inheritance tax.

ROTFLMAO, but too true Tom!