While most of you where sleeping, the UFO returned....

But Blikje sent them away....

Good Morning Martin

Nice picture in your profile Linda!

Hey Martin and Linda, thanks for getting donuts!

Good Morning all... Nasty day here on the Northeastern Island...

Poured all night here in western MA - the dogs were SOAKED when they came back in at 5:30! Then they jumped on the bed when I wasn't looking. Grrr. LOL

I miss our wet pets!

I don't know about you Rusty. You miss wet pets, but get mad at wet dogs on the bed.
(didn't have a bouncing dog)

Cindy, I think it's because Rusty doesn't like waterbeds???

Morning Martin, Linda, Freddie and Rusty.

I'm surprised Rusty doesn't have a clear waterbed with fish inside. Think I saw one of those on a movie once.

LOL Cindy! I like wet pets but I don't want to SLEEP with them! That is exactly what the (50 lb) puppy looks like, tho, on the waterbed - she trampolines around with a big grin on her face!

(Sounds like The Sopranos - you'll be sleepin' wit' da fishes!)

We're supposed to get some rain today, but right now it's dry and 75. Has to start raining since spring training started this week. We have the Detroit Tigers here and they play Cleveland today.

Hey, how'd you KNOW I have a waterbed!?! Can you see me thru my monitor? (I am a little afraid that the dog is going to go right thru one of these days!)

I used to have a waterbed and even though the dogs never jumped up there, the cats loved the warmth. Had to teach them not to knead, I always had visions of little pinpoint pools of water from the claws.

I am enjoying a balmy -4 degrees here in the Twin Cities, wind chill -16. I am leaving this lovely weather on Thursday to enjoy Bonaire for two weeks - I can't wait.

Cindy and Rusty here is a WET PET for you..
I hate when that happens!!!

Only 180 more days!! Ahhh....



I can barely wait!

Freddie, he should have trimmed his claws before jumping on the bed.

Lisa, that's why I live in Florida. I can take the 95 in the summer, but would have a hard time with anything below freezing in the winter. My blood's too thin.

Hey - a VW!

oh, a cute yellow bug.

I knew we'd double post on that. Just a little action and we all get excited.

she's right, but does she have to rub it in?

I think she was driving the bug.

Thats not fair! I'am freezing and this girl is under Bonaire's lovely sun !!! Snifffff

hey, is that diver debbie? sure miss her. she is a hoot!!!

jake, any news on the t shirts?

We have a two page article on Bonaire by Rick and Susan Sammon in the Sunday Travel section this morning. Nice pix of a parrotfish at night and a seahorse. Says that Bonaire is a *Fish Watchers* Paradise! We knew that! Says ya gotta watch out for goats and donkeys on the road... LOL

Speaking of articles.. If anyone gets Southern Living, there's a good article about my little town, Wake Forest, in there. Page 6NC.

Just a little something to warm your heart on this chilly morning!

45 days and counting. Whooo-Hooo!! 8-)

We just took a walk around the koi ponds and there are tulips coming up an inch or more - before the crocuses! It's almost 60 today - it was 13 two mornings ago when I got up! We lost a redbud tree a couple years ago when it budded and then froze up.

Visitors!

Scuba John and Tom and lots of other names on the other sign:

Ok everyone just another reminder that at 14:00 today there should be a crowd at the street cam!!!

Cool gif!!



Freddie - the article in the paper says that there are lots of orange-pink flamingos on the *desert-like* island. Did you see them?

Yes we did. We saw them doen by the salt flats.There were hundreds of them. It looked like a pink sea from a distance..

How about we start a new thread for the afternoon gathering??

rusty, they are flamingo breeding grounds down by the salt flats. they are all over, as are wild iguanas of all sizes. there was an iguana that was hanging around the bench to gear up by the dive shop, beautful and wonderful colors. it is amazing that such a small island has so much wildlife diversity....pink flamingos, iguanas, donkeys, goats, pigs....

these two got missed, wish we could have read their signs better ;-(

I'll take a stab at these signs:

Scuba John and Tom - We're in sunny Bonaire and you're not! (Can't read the rest.)

Hi Mom and Dad - ?all the Millers - ? and Ed - Gail and Dick - Carl, Jeff & ?Charlie - Kampy?

Freddie, neat wet cat pic ! And for those who saw my pictures of Oscar as a puppy, just a few months later and he isn't so little anymore!

Rusty, notice the little curl to his ears! Oh well, just makes him cuter.

geez denise...how fast they grow! he is beautiful!

And, Rusty, I can't nelieve you have tulips coming up already. As you can see we still have ice/snow on the ground and nothing coming up yet. But I do beleive Spring is around the corner. Wishful thinking ....

Denise - he's gorgeous. Don't they just steal your heart? I can tell your son loves that dog! That's a great shot. Thanks for sharing it with us. BoxerBob had to look, too!

Oh - and the tulips are grwoing around a raised upper pond so I wonder if the water is keeping the soil warmer there?

Re: The above...

Yes - that appears to be Diver Debbi.

As far as T-shirts go, we sold some at the Boston Sea Rovers show which ended yesterday (Sunday). Still working on the Web shopping cart though so we can sell them on-line... Soon! (I'm at Dan's house in Mass. right now, and it's one of the many things we're working on addressing.)

Jake

haha it would be good if you could add new zealand as a sending destination..for the t-shirt, otherwise i'll be over too buy one..:-),
hey i'll swap ya a newZealand kiwi t-shirt

I'm ScubaJohn, that message was for me. I'll find out the rest after they get back later today. I was just down there with them and they were mocking me. We had some great dives together.

Scuba John! Did you get on cam while you were there?

Yes, I was on the camera, Rusty and Cyndi caught me. I was the one in the camo hat, some one said "I'm too sexy...." Well that was me! I was half in my wet suit. BTW the ScubaJohn sign said "ScubaJohn and Tom we are in Sunny Bonaire and you aren't" Those are my freinds that I was diving with. Thanks for the captures!

Okay - I remember you... You must be in the early stages of PBD, huh?! And they were rubbing it in. Tsk-tsk!