Good Morning - Rise and Shine

And today is Birth of the Sun Day


The Incas always celebrated the Birth Of The Sun on September 20th. The sun is the largest object in our solar system and is about 4.6 billion years old. Cultures that practiced sun worship down through history were usually agrarian societies. When men became farmers, they were dependent on daily and seasonal changes in the weather. The sun was the great force that regulated these changes — the light and heat they needed for their crops.

Wonder what time the sun will birth itself on Bonaire today? I'll see if I can capture it.

I guess to some extent here on this site we workship the sun in that we post piccies of it in the morning, the jewels it creates in the afternoon, and definitely of the stunning sunsets we get, and, of course, the famous green flash.

Good morning Jenni, you're up early.

Have a great Birth of the Sun day!

Good Morning, Martin.

Hope the sun shines for you today


Just been writing posters for the workshop I am running tomorrow. Nearly finished them. Goody!!! I do them on my knees, so after I while I just have to get up and walk around. Well that's my excuse for coming on BT, and I'm sticking to it. LOL

Good Morning Jenni and Martin! I have a little time before work! Next week we have our O/W written exam! Then our open water dives! No more late nights...

It is also Wizard of OZ Festival Day today!

Good Morning Eileen. What time is where you are? It is almost 11am here in the UK. We are 5 hours after Bonaire Time.

Wizard of Oz eh?

I've just wizarded my posters all done. Now I have to stick that transparent stuff in the corners and along the edges to strenghthen them and also to stop the corners getting ripped when taking them off and on walls. Boring job!!!

You are doing so well, Eileen, with your learning to dive. I am quite envious.

Whoops - my gif for poster making was not there. Hmmmmm???? gremlins

so here I am making posters

Jenni, it is the same time here in Ontario as it is in Bonaire until Daylight Savings time when we be one hour behind.

Diving is not as easy at it looks to start! But we are getting there and pretty soon it will be a piece of cake! I have met some great people already too.

I can not believe that it is Autumn soon!

Early Morning Boat

Have a wonderful day Jenni and Martin and to everyone else signing on! Time to go to work!

So you are up early then, Eileen. Or is that a usual time for Canadians to get up? It would be considered 'early' here. Well, by me anyway.

I know we already are noticing the difference in light both in the mornings - got to put the light on to get dressed, and in the evenings - got to put the car lights on much earlier, and last night when I brought in the washing from the line, the automatic lights come on, cos it thought it was dark!!!!

We in the north of England have hardly had any sunshine this summer, and I wearily go into Autumn not feeling refreshed this year as I usually do. Buying the flats and moving offices I know didn;t help.

Here's the sunrise

and the one I like the best


Bye, Eileen, have a nice day at work. Hope the traffic is not too bad

And Good Morning Blickje

this is beautiful

Oh what a beautiful morning [Rusty, where's the wavfor this?]
and even the fishes now have light straming through

Hi Jenni, Martin, and Eileen,
All up nice and early today.
I too feel like you Jenni that somehow we missed out on Summer this year, and now we have the winter to look forward to. (not) bit of sun peeping through down here, but Autumn has definitely arrived.
You are very clever making posters Jenni.(very artistic)
Have a nice day all.

Did someone mention sunshine. I can't remember what it looks like. Annie B.

I'm at my wits end trying to get my dog to take a tablet. everytime I think Ive done it. she spits it out.


On This Day, Fri, September 20th
John Dankworth, jazz musician,born 1927;Sophia Loren, Italien siren, born 1934;Jane Manning, soprano, born 1938;Sir Jeremy Child, actor, born 1944;Jose Rivero, golfer, born 1955;Simon Mayo, DJ, born 1958;Maggie Cheung, actress from In The Mood For Love, born 1964; Nuno Bettencourt, former Extreme guitarist, born 1966; Philippa Forrester, tv presenter, born 1968; Julian Joachim, Aston Villa footballer, born 1974.

I forgot this.

Maria, If I have to give tablets to Ben, then I always hide it in a piece of cheese. Try hiding it in a piece of her favorite food. Annie B.

Good Morning ALL,

Happy Birth of the Sun Day!

Grendel sees someone lurking about.


Blickje what are you doing on the wrong side of the wall.


I was just inspecting the neighborhood. All's well.


Have a great day all!

Debbie

Hi Annie B,
Yes I tried that, yesterday she took it in a peice of ham, she even had a bit of chicken, but today she just refuses, just as well I have to go back to the vets tonight.

Hi Maria, Hi Annie, Hi Deborah

just look at this fish!!!!!!!


Took ages to put plastic protective bits on the posters - only done half [and I'm exaggerating to make myself feel good about it!] Gotta go to work, back for wogga wogga.

Bye guys

Nice fishy Jenni. See ya later. Byeeeee. Annie B.

La la la la la la

Happy birthday Mr. Sun!! Only 4.6 billion years old and still on fire!

Time for what goes around comes around and for us industrialized countries to start worshipping the sun again and get more of our energy from "solar" sources.

No sun here today. More much needed rain last night and cloudy-steamy this morning.


Nice fish poses this morning. Maybe they are auditioning?

Have a nice Friday,

Bill

Maria,
I know this might sound a little harsh. But I have to do this to my dog. Hold his mouth open and put the tablet way way back in his throat and then hold his mouth closed and then rub his neck downward. It works for me. The vet told me to do it this way.
Ida

Hi Ida and Bill.
Ida. I was going to do that as a last resort, but luckily with a bit of persuading she did take it wrapped in a bit of ham.( but these tablets are so big,) ive had to cut them up. but in the past Ive just put a bit of butter on the tablet and no problem. Its so much easier when they co-operate.

morning gang (still morning here on the left coast!)...here is a link to the 3 pictures that came out from our dive last weekend. i am just happy that my eel pic came out after all the trouble we had with the camera!

Cynde's dive pics

oh, and eileen, the more diving you do, the more comfortable you get and the more fun it gets!

Cynde, great pictures. You could make them bigger, my poor old eyes could barely see them. D2D does not have the 50k file size limitation, so you could post bigger pictures.

I voluntered today for a California trip we'll see if it happens. If it does I'm sure I can swing a weekend, it'll be tough getting the 7mm in the luggage but it's doable. Dive the kelp beds would be so kewl, I could check out your babies.

Very cOoOol Cynde, but I wanted to see a picture of you AND your new fins!

14 daze!

cecil, let me know, that would be great! we have another bt left coast boat dive going for oct 5th, also, give me a heads up and we could have a special bt bbq... to date, we have 47 new kelp plants at the planting site that have survived the uruchins, and the storm waves from the last couple of weeks!!!!

glenn, i think i asked michael about a zillion times "did i tell you how much i love my new fins?" did you get the one's you were thinking of getting? if not, seriously consider the apollo pro splits...

Hi everyone, back home at last after boring work.

Nice pictures Cynde, but can I ask a silly question. What are the rusty chains for? Annie B.

Hi Cynde, I went with the Scuba Pro Twin Jets. Hard to decide between the two since the reviews were neck and neck for both fins. I liked the fact that the Twin Jets were positively bouyant-in case a fin slipped off in a mucky lake (a dive buddy of mine lost a fin that way) they'd be easier to find on the surface. I'll let you know what I think of them after I submerge next time. Have a great weekend!

Grendel just looking for anyone to play with.

And time for some sunsets methinks. Annie B.



Hi Glenn, Where'd everyone go.

annie b...no such thing as a dumb question, only an interest for more knowledge! ha! walt (who runs a tech dive operation on bonaire) has been posting deep dive (300 ft plus) pics on the anchors at red slave, and chains of red slave, etc. i took this pic just for him to show him that we have rusty chains out west too! i also put this pic under diving bonaire (i know jake, broke the rule, sorry so that i could try to bribe him into posting more cool pics from the bowels of bonaire worked too

Gonna post all the sunsets in one fell swoop.

Cynde, Thank you for being so understanding. Being a non diver, but interested, I sometimes have loads of questions, but don't ask all the time. Gonna go look around other threads. See ya. Annie B.