It's a vewy vewy wainy Monday in New England. All those BBQs will have to head indoors and under cover! Suddenly everything is green and growing like weeds - even the weeds! Summer is on its way.



Happy Memorial Day!

Mandy and some early reef cam visitors:

TODAY'S TRIVIA:

1805 - Lewis & Clark 1st see Rocky Mountains
1864 - Territory of Montana formed
1896 - Last Czar of Russia, Nicholas II, crowned

1937 - San Francisco Bay's Golden Gate Bridge opens

1977 - Movie "Star Wars" debuts

TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS:

1877 - Isadora Duncan, interpretative dancer
1886 - Al Jolson, jazz singer/silent actor (Swanee)
1907 - John Wayne, actor (True Grit)

1920 - Peggy Lee, singer (Thats All There Is?)
1923 - James Arness, actor (Matt Dillon-Gunsmoke)

Heh, anyone doing an outdoor BBQ today is going to get their food charcoal boiled...

Thankfully the rain slowed down enough yesterday for us to finish planting the garden. 11 tomato plants, 8 eggplants, 8 hot pepper plants, a whole row of sunflowers, 6 or 8 zucchini plants, several packages of soybeans (edamame!), a package of green chard seeds, and a pack of mustard greens of some sort. Oh, and 5 basil plants into the herb garden, too. If all this stuff takes root and thrives, along with the rest of what was already there, we're going to eat well (and cheap!) this summer!

Had our first radish out of the garden the other night. First fresh produce of the season! We've been using thyme and oregano out of the herb garden already, too, plus rosemary out of the big pot out front. We actually got a rosemary plant to survive the winter, for once! Did you know that rosemary can flower? We sure didn't! Lovely little tiny blue flowers, very pretty...

Time to go clean house -- company coming later...

Faith

So much for mowing the grass or should I think about draining the swamp instead. It was so sucking this weekend we even blew off diving, normally rain is not a problem when diving. Not true this weekend, it's also been windy which closes out all the salt water and with the volume of rain and the cold water even a fresh water dive would be bogus.

We did make it up to Art's cottage on the lake yesterday. We put in his dock and then spent the rest of time drinking, fishing, eating, playing dominoes and drinking. I caught the only fish which was the same fish I caught last year, this guy.



Nice to know he doing fine and does not hold last years catch against me. Lucky on fishing almost lucky on dominoes, I was winning till the last game which I lost big (stinking double 0's).

Cecil - that is so cool! Do you do a weigh-in on him every year? I was able to raise a couple lm bass from fingerlings we caught in a seine in the Connecticut River, in the big tanks at the museum.

Those guys would eat anything, any time. They'd cruise back and forth when I was near the tank - they'd make believe they weren't paying any attention to me - then POW! they'd hit minnows, mice, frogs - anything that had passed on to greener pastures. That's recycling. LOL

Sailing and diving, ahhhh, the good life:

Faith's getting the same weather we are. LOL Our ponds have gorgeous tall green sword-like leaves from a sweet flag plant we were given five years ago. The stuff grows like kudzu. We now have four pots-full and it already needs repotting AGAIN! Until yesterday they were standing straight up like cat-tails. Today? Phhhhht. Flattened by the heavy rain. Isn't that always the way?

Sounds like Faith will have a little Farmer's Market soon. All we have right now is rhubarb, chives and lots of mint. Coming soon though are blueberries and strawberries. Both are in flower and covered with blossoms.

Dad went to a Memorial Day gathering this morning - check out the bumbershoots.

Hi All. Boy is it WET outside!!! I think we should all start to build a boat or two.. This stuff doesn't look as if it is going to stop anytime soon..
Everyone be careful if you have to go out on the roads..

These folks don't mind the weather:



A school of strange rubber fish swimming thru:

Monday, Monday, I do love that day............

Well, when its a holiday, I love that day; otherwise, you can have it.

Raining here as well. Seems like Martine is the only one having decent weather. I saw one of the national weather reports on TV last night. Looked like almost the entire US was covered with clouds.

Sitting here having a cup of coffee, before I go back to bed. Couldn't sleep. Of course, now that I've had a cup of coffee, I probably won't sleep anyway. Guess I'll just stay up.

Hmmm, just looked outside for the first time this morning. Guess I need to revise my prior comment. Its not raining here, and, although its thin, there is some blue sky up there. Maybe we will get our planting done today.

Did you see Goldmember yet?

Trying some shots here

hey rusty, yep, saw it when it came out...we were laughing last night about it because dylon got his back sunburned very bad, and is peeling big time...we told him to go outside and slough it off! were reminded of what goldmember did with his....YUCK!

unbelievable, all 4 kids still asleep (teenagers will sleep till noon every day if you let them!) and michael is still asleep too..i actually have quiet time AND the puter! woohoo! cynde's goin' wild!

seb, nice pic...did you take that on bon?

oh, forgot to say hi to dan, cecil and faith...faith, your garden sounds wonderful! i have some flowers i need to pot today...i had a garden a few years ago, but haven't planted one i n a while...maybe i out to think about planting a tomatoe plant in a pot...michael loves tomatoes

Another rainy day shot from Dad:

With all this rain, I've started a small home project. Can anyone tell me how long a cubit is??

rusty, did you fix that up, or is that just a noreaster downpour???

bob, a cubit is from the tip of a finger to the tip of your elbow...or, one and a half feet...or 18 inches...or...roughly from the tip of your elbow to the tip of your finger...(i'm about to measure mine now)....so you want to let us in on your secret project???? or are you going to ask us how much a hen weighs???

It was a whale I tell you. Had to fight it for hours to land him.

Would you believe ...

On another note, I love high tech. I just finished getting together all of our music for Bonaire. Which basically consists of every song we love to hear over and over again. It's about 150 songs, 620 megs, one CD (I'll probably cut a spare), two headphones, two portable speakers and one player. Talk about packing light.

It's quite a eclectic mix that we've been gathering over the last few months. Everything from Beatles, to classic, to the Dixie Chicks, lots of Jimmy Buffet, Neil Diamond, Anne Murphy, Momas and the Pappas, Carol King and John Denver.

cecil, sounds like my kind of music! btw, did you ever get all that dirt moved in your back yard????

All moved grated, leveled and seeded. No grass babies yet, but with all this rain they may not be able to breath underwater.

Hi there my BT buddies and friends

I like the sound of your music, Cecil. I am of course not at all bothered by your talk of getting ready for you holidays. And not all bothered that you'll be seeing this for real soon and I won't. Not at all you understand. LOL



We have not had lots of rain today, and for a Bank Holiday quite a nice sunny weekend. Depends on where in the country you were though.

It still seems like forever although it's all of 11 days, 23 hours 31 minutes and 37 seconds.

Cecil, I can see you're not counting then.....

Night Night

I am off to my bed

PS Rusty, I love that photo your Dadz took in the rain. It is super.

Hi guys and gals. We had a nice sunny warm day here. We went to my brother's house for a bbq. Plenty of food, and more important, plenty of wogga. Shall try and post some pics tomorrow. Cecil is that a carp you caught in the lake? Annie B.

The sailboat

Annie the common name is a Small Mouth Bass. Bass fishing is a cult in the US and has a huge following with a professional tour and massively overpaid pro's. Imagine getting buckets of money to go fishing. One of the funny rules by the way is a dead bass loses points. In fact they even go out so far as to release the fish where they were caught.

Seb - you must have been in heaven diving with a ray! Whew - stunning shot.