Good Morning BT! Not sure why my mind is singing....Good Morning Starshine...the earth says hello...you twinkle above us...we twinkle below....

Hope all is well in your part of the world today... Hugs to all...yesterday a few nice surprises...a friend invited me to join her with a free ticket to a Blue's Festival at Big Boulder Ski Resort (which is 5 min from here) and two of my bestest friends who don't live nearby unexpectedly showed up on facebook...hooray....fun surprises all around!!



Happy Monday Hugs

and some friends I met on my Saturday walk....


obviously not the clearest photo...that's my next challenge...to get close enough to get a good deer photo...but I LOVE seeing them anyway!

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Wonderful Donna!

Good Morning everyone!

I'm off to my parents today!!! Just need to get Mr. Quinn up and running - not a morning person! Keddle is into the Cheerios box, too afraid to know what Riker is up too...

Have a great morning!

good morning all -

kinda overcast and yuckie here on the cape - but its still good!!!!

Donna love the pics -

Eileen... safe travel today - hows the "bites" on Keddle?

well off to get coffee - will be chekin in later..

K and R - Great captcha on the DT Cam!!!! 8 weeks for us!

Enjoy your dives today!!!!!!

hey Ken!!!!

good luck on your OW dives this morning!!!!! have fun!

Good morning all. Thank you Linda for answering the Duck Boat question. If I get a few minutes I'll post a picture of one. Pretty fun stuff.

Like duh, great shots Donna love the flower. The deer photo problem is a tough one, distance is your enemy and their skiddish nature makes it almost impossible.

The deer I photographed in the Keys are very tame and live around humans and are not hunted. None of these are true in your case. Maybe a very long lens and a tripod might work.

Hi friends..and to Ken and Ruth enjoy Bon today!! I had a FABULOUS week-end with many positives...YEA. Now I am ready to tackle another week........

Hailey and Brianna's birthday was a HUGE success...

Good morning everyone and all to follow.
Donna, thanks for the photos. I love Bambi!! What camera do you have?

Eileen, have you found Riker yet? It's scary when they are quiet.

Carl, an overcast day on the Cape is MUCH better than a day at work. We would sometimes go running down the dunes while on the Cape, and go to Provence town. Boy, that was way back when I was a kid to my teens.

Cecil, you're welcome. I was curious about them, too.

Michelle, good to hear you had a fab weekend.

Good luck with your OW dives today Ken. Ruth keep an eye on him.

Tom & Pam, more hugs!!

drat all pics are tooooo big. Will work on that later.

Gotta feed ezels and off to work...make it a good one!!

Shaking head, I look at this web site and keep asking is this real or a joke or a really bad translation or do they really talk like that. I mean pure bloodline WTH does that mean?

Cecil, I'll have to check this out when I get home, but at first glance my reaction is WTH?

morning friends..my Daughter returns tomorrow..BON on Saturday...
What a wonderful week this will be!

Morning Krispi! I bet you missed her like crazy!! Take the day off.

Good morning all!!!

Donna, thanks for the pics!!!

Mee-Chelle, get back here and post pics, work can wait

Katie was among the campers mentioned in this story:
http://www.wptz.com/news/20183456/detail.html

She and the other girls are all doing fine and are back working towards their shared goals in a great environment.

Sometimes you just have to ask "Why?" http://sports.yahoo.com/box/news?slug=ap-forrestkilled&prov=ap&type=lgns

Hugs to you all.

Good morning BT.

I sure missed you guys this weekend. Comp will be back in a few days.

Linda..I have wednesday off..YAY..got to get her in the water make sure all her gear is in order!

I am so excited!

Morning Tom & Jerry!

Good morning all!

It's all fun and games until someone drowns.

Good morning everyone. Looks like we are late today. Got another pot of coffee ready !
Everyone have a great day from hot and humid Chicago

Good Morning To All!!!!!

Hope you have a great week.

How about a little Stevie Ray to start the day

Good Morning BT!!!
Donna - GREAT pics
Krispi - GREAT NEWS!!!! The next two days are going to go by so slow for you!!

Tom - true story, Rasta did that too! I left her and my purse in the car while I ran into the Post Office one winter day (just so's no one worries about heat exhaustion). When I returned I noticed a weird smell and immediately thought the vets had missed something at her last 'expression' or that someone had sprayed something into the car.... then I noticed my pepper spray on the seat. She had jumped up to the front seat, stepping on my purse and setting off the pepper spray!!! Long story, short... Rasta pepper sprayed herself
So glad to hear that Katie is doing well.

Okay... gotta get my arse on the treadmill and burn a few calories to start the day

Good morning

Cecil, but-but-but, he just wanted to play.

HEY JERRY, WANNA BORROW MINE?

Tara, now you know why I prefer a mortar and pestle or good ol pepper grinder

Good morning everyone...hard to see the keyboard, I think I have pink eye! I am just waiting for the eye doctor to open his office and then I'll be off.

From Donna's beautiful photo's to Krispi's good news it sounds like the week will start off in a good way.

Tom, you and the family are still in my thoughts.

I am, however; a little miffed at your eyeglass comment from the previous thread! progressive shmogressive...no one will ever know...at least that is what they tell me! They did warn me, the first week or two can be very discouraging. It may seem as if you are walking around inebriated until you get use to them...ah hell...I've done that before! LOL

Good Morning Everyone!!!

Donna, once again your morning photos brought a smile to my heart!!! Thank you!!

Okay, did some major thinking and rethinking overnight, and made the call to the boss this morning. I'll be working all this week, and we'll be able to enjoy the boat next week!!!

Mrs. T. and I sat down this morning, with a calendar, and pinpointed exactly when and for how long we could be on the boat. It's going to be a great August and September!!!!!

Tom - Big Hugs to you, Pam and the rest of the family

Jerry and Louise - Special Hugs for the two of you.

Ken and Ruth - glad you are having a great time!!! Keep on having fun!!

BH - What can I say..... Hugs, Big Guy!!!

Eileen - Enjoy your trip today!!

Everyone else - You're ALL getting HUGS, whether you like it or not!!!

Bill

Tara...SSSSLLLLLLOOOOOOOWWWWW

at least this week is finally here!!

Roseanne!!! You sneaked in on me there!!

Figured I better make this a LITTLE bigger so you could read it without hurting your nose!!!

Hey - Progressives beat the alternative - OLD FART GLASSES!!! The ones with that special window carved into the bottom!!!!!

Just watch out for trying to go down dimly lit stairs, either inside, or out!!! Very ... VERY easy to completely miss a step - or three!!

Wonder how I know that?????

Okay - Had a major Holle Panic Attack this morning!! Mrs. T. took Holle out into the backyard, and then - horror of horrors - Mrs. T. started hanging laundry on the clothesline to dry!!!

Holle couldn't get far enough away from the laundry monster She even cowered in the furthest flower garden - and she's NOT allowed in flower gardens!!!

Don't know what we will do to get her over her fear of drying clothes - using the dryer on such a gorgeous day is not an option!!!

Well, better get some emails done, and then see what we can create for lunch!!

Have a great day!!! That's an ORDER!!!



Bill

Super T, thanks you are so thoughtful! LOL!!! I got tired of stretching my arms out as far as I could or taking my glasses off to read things! AHHH, the joys of getting old, but as Boom always says...it beats the alternative!

Morning, almost afternoon everyone!

Krispi, got your message, I was out most of the morning. Soon, very soon we will enjoying Bonaire and all Mother Ocean has to offer!

I had a wonderful time with my son, laura and lydia yesterday! Enjoyed the time we shared so very much.

Bill, sounds like a good plan. Now, don't work too hard this week.

Ken, good luck with your o/w dives today.

Donna, love your morning pics! Our deer population around here is getting huge.

RA, I got the invisible ones, no one knows they are there but me. It did take me a year to get used to them, I actually scratched my first pair just to go back and get them normal till I was ready to accept the fact that I had to really have them to see better. Took about two weeks and a couple trips up and down the stairs, but I am all good now, I only trip up stairs! Ha...joking,

MMMMMMMMMMMMM..... the smell of laundry dried in the breeze. Poor puppy, I hope Holle gets over her Laundry Monster issue.

"I only trip up stairs!"

Some things just don't change Debbie

HEY R.A., CAN YOU SEE THIS?


I remember my first pair of progressives. Yup, I remember saying "OH S**T, I'M GONNA NEED REHAB." then it got better and i said "Not yet."

Rehab is good, it makes the voices stop, stop, stop!


Ever have clear Jello?

Make some and put it in water glasses, when someone asks for a glass of water, pull it out and sit back and smile.

You guys are NOT helping!!! LMAO!! The eye glass lady ( I know the correct term but I don't particularly care for her) said "WOW, You made it until you were pretty old before you needed these! I think she meant it as a compliment but I didn't take it that way!

RA, slap her. I saw my eye doctor last weekend and think I have her talked into getting OW certified.

Tom - about rehab - "I said NO, NO, NO." Amy W

Speaking of glasses, I saw Lydia yesterday and we were sitting there playing and I took my glasses off for something, it freaked her out as her grandmom looks scary without them to her. Had to put them back on STAT! to make her smile again. Funny how little ones relate things to a person. While we were outside, they changed color and she kept poking my glasses up to see if I was still there! LOL!

RA, have to confess, I still do trip up the stairs, BUT, have been doing that since I was a kid, darn feet move faster than the rest of me at times. Tom, yup, some things never change. There, feel better now I got that out. You know, most folks fall down stairs, my falling upstairs makes me unique, right. Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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Linda - Debbie,

R.A., how's this? You had to move wayyyyyyyyyy back from the monitorDIDN'T YOU

Jerry, rehab is for quitters!!! Smile, hell I'd be wetting myself laughing

Thanks for the smiles all. Boss is here..."Clipboard, where are you?"

POOF

JERRY, THAT ONE CAUSED AN OVERLOAD!!!

R.WOW., can I borrow your glasses please?

CYA

Debbie, when I put ON my glasses in front of the mirror I scream - scary indeed.

Good thing THAT is out of focus!!!!!!

I'm not even going to enter the eyeball conversation.... it's a sad subject here!

SuperT!!! Love your plan, work today and play for weeks Much better than play today and work for weeks!!!

Had a nice workout - starting that darn 100 pushup challenge again... day two down, only 5 weeks and 2 days to go. Debbie, how's the gym?

Work from home day for me, so I'd better get at my list.

It's a grand day... simply a Grand Day!

Debbie..I told Annemarie about your son...hehe
I reminded her that it will just be nice to have a PERSON her age to hang with and dive with. Someone who has similar interests...she calmed back down, haha

Annemarie isn't interested in boys yet...I am OK with that!! TOTALLY!! haha

Debbie...did you actually HEAR my message?
I think I was trying to do too many things at once. Didn't expect to have a voicemail prompt pop up..I panicked,I think???

I'll be back in two hours.

Krispi, Ya, it goes to voicemail if I don't pick up. hee hee. Told Brandon too, he says he is not into girls either, he's such a jock, but I see him looking and them looking at him, so who knows? I told him the same thing, wouldn't it be cool to have someone other than us old folks to talk to? Oh, yeah, well, maybe... Can't wait for Sunday to be here already. Sorry, Ruth and Ken, I know you aren't, but I'm so ready to go!

RA, on my way to the gym now, had to wait for the gal who's doing my business to wake up and show up here, ah, those young girls can really sleep in. I'm all set to go on vaca now! Oops, forgot I need to pack too. Whoops, that's o.k., will do that tomorrow. Today is more weight training. going to try to do the amount of weights he wanted me to start with, but I didn't, was too heavy. Got an appt. with the personal trainer again tomorrow to go over other stuff that need fixing too. I am just a work in progress here.

Debbie, if we're lucky.... we're always a work in progress

Man, there seems to be such a steady flow of BTrs coming and going from our island paradise My time will come around again someday - till then I love hearing all of your stories and being a part of your journeys!

Tara, so true, so true.

No gym right now, going to have to wait till after I take Brandon to drum lessons tonight. Making a really nice dinner, thanks to our Jerry, tonight and want to not be all rushed doing it. More cute guys at the gym at night anyway.

Trainer has some explaining to do though, a week at the gym and no weight loss, he's going to have to do some sweet talking to keep me interested, cute guys only go so far ya know... I want to see results like yesterday. know it doesn't work that way, but when? The magic question is when? That is my one and only question when I see him tomorrow. Plus, one machine he wants me to do will so not be my friend. I just hit that one with my towel when I walk by.

Lookey Here!!! Just got this on my cell phone from Catalina Island

OH NO! ER BELOW

Debbie, Keep hitting that machine with your towel and you'll build up those wrist muscles. Hee hee.

Debbie You know that muscle weighs more than fat!! It's about being Fit!
oh and usually it's the machine or maneuver that we despise most that we need the most ---- hang in there and bust a move girl... you'll be the Gym Bomb!!

Gregg will watch you coming and going!!!

Linda and Boom, You done made me smile, Thanks!
Needed that. oh, that machine and I will NEVER be friends, it has lots of sister and brother machines, the trainer will just have to pick another one that works for me. That one actually hurts my body even BEFORE I use it, so it is not gonna happen. Bad machine.

Hi Kids!!!

I love all this working out talk!! I SOOOOOOOOOO need to do something like that. I can join the Y for free...I'm thinking about it...It's the thought that counts, Right????

All this talk about glasses...hmmm....I HAVE to wear mine or I can't see. I have contacts, but can't see well enough to paint w/ them. They are great for diving though... I may need a new Rx. Mine are progressive...I enjoyed the first few days, saved money on beer and wine!!LOL

Hi all.. talk about glasses I got new ones this past week and we will not EVER discuss how much they cost.... this will never be spoken to MrF.. ya'll hear!!!!! I hae progressive trifocals that are transitional with a non reflective coating to cut the glare at night... the glass frames themselves have a designer initial on them but I have know idea who the heck it is... RC.. My eyesite change quite a bit this past 2 years.. they had to add another prism to my prescription the next step is DOG..I am NOT a candidate for surgery or for contacts I had those and they changed the shape of my cornea for the worse..and I had the ones that you needed to take out every day.semi soft.. I am not a candidate for the accu lenses either..Oh well a PL meeting tonight have to get back into that one of these days I miss my road trips

PS how's that painting coming???? It's going to be another amazing piece of art!!!

Okay.... time for me to really get to work.
I HAVE to tape off the bathroom and prime it... we're going to have a fresh new bathroom soon!

With all this talk of glasses and progressive glasses has me thinking of my dive mask.

Currently I have a mask with gauge readers and during our last trip I found this not to be strong enough. Plus it is getting more difficult to take photos craning my neck looking thru these gauge readers located in the bottom of my mask lenses. That's my excuse for taking bad uw photos!

My question to you photographers in the same situation is where do you like the "reading" portion on your mask lens - bottom middle or higher? I know this sounds funny, but there are reasons some photographers prefer the middle or top of the lens.

Hi Linda I have actually given that some though.... I am thinking about diving with two masks one for the photography of little stuff and one just to see the whale sharks with... I think I will have a mask made up with my bifocal script for when I take photos.. and that is about all the time and then have one for just touring.. I find I cannot focus my camera with my gauge readers where they are, but I can read my gauges..

Freddie, I know a woman in our situation who is married to a retired eye dr. She always has a camera when she dives and has tried putting the "reading" portion in three different places.

First at the bottom but much higher than our gauge readers, then she had it in the middle for shooting straight ahead, then at the top because of all the pictures she takes upside down. I don't think she was happy with any set up.

I'll just buy new eyes. Check out this photo of Terry and I.

Everyone thought Terry was carrying an extra mask in case something happened, but he found it at the bottom of the mooring line. It belonged to someone on our skiff on that dive.

Do you smell that Jim? It's not Tom's feet!

Can you feel your feet yet Jerry?

Jerry, made the shrimp and scallop provencal. Delish!

Can't smell anything over here, guys, but lots of garlic!

It takes a few try's Debbie to fine tune to your taste.

What, my feetsisis, they smell like a spring morning.

Say click.



Click!

It's dead, Jim.... Off to take Brandon to drum lessons, then to the gym. See you all tomorrow!

Hi BT! Just a quick pop-in before dinner. Think we are heading to La Guernica for tapas tonight...some pix posted over on that trip report thread...having a GREAT time and I'M DIVING!!!! YAY!!!!!

Hugs and love to all...

Jerry, it's not nice to play games with my eyes...they are just getting better

Hey everyone!! Linda, camera is a Sony cybershot...easy to use...I love digital photography. I'll never be a pro, but taking pics is fun..and sharing them is, too!

Ruth I'm sooooo jealous!! Glad you are having a good time!! and are well!!

yummm LaGuernica was one of my most favorite
So glad that you're able to dive Ruth.

It's been a productive day here and now.....

it's time to concoct a cocktail

Evening, ALL!!

Just checking in one last time tonight.

Need a favour from one or two of you.....
Could somebody help babysit the Webcam thread tomorrow??? I'll be heading off for work before 8AM, and with Train Club, won't be home until about midnight. I don't want it getting too lonely over there

Please...........

Tuck ins are in their usual spot!!

Nytol!!!!!!! Or Rum and Coke!!!!

Bill

Thanks Donna, I loved my Sony CyberShot, too. I had the W10 I think. It fit the bill of a nice camera that was small enough to take on my second 3-Day walk. I also love my older (2003)Sony TRV80 video cam. It's SWEET!!!

ruth
that nis fab
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Bill - hope that you're feeling 100% tomorrow

I can't volunteer for the webcam duty but will try to check in here and there.

Time to get the grill going... hubby should be heading home soon. Nothing fancy tonight - especially since he said his pilot and he were chowing down on chips, guacamole and ckn wings at 5pm.... silly men!

Bill!!! Webcam buddy!!
Rum and coke sounds like a good choice!


Goodnight all!

Hey Ruth! Glad you are diving...Don't forget the reservations for sat!
have fun!

Krispi

reservations 8pm sat made and done

under name ken & ruth

can't wait

well yes we can lol