Good Morning And a very early good morning it has been for me. Woke at 4ish, and when wide awake at 5, decided to get up and start packing my house up. I feel positive about it, and want boxes taped, and marked, and then stored in the loft. Which will give me space and a sense of I am getting somewhere with this packing the house up jobby

So I've just made myself a pot of tea, and for the coffee lovers out there I'm making coffee too

Packed up and labeled 3 boxes. Body is aching but I am feeling good Just popped downstairs to have another cuppa and see if anyone hereabouts

Godd Morning, Jenni, I am here :o)
Thanks for the coffee,(I already had one Jean Paul prepared for me), and I truly enjoy yours.
You are packing and I am wringing the kitchen floor out. The washing machine must have a leak and of course, Jean paul is out :o(
It a beautiful day here. We are going to our astronomy club tonight, trying to see the Comet ( Neat C/2001) at sunset, and then assist a conference about the next transit of Venus on june 8th. Have a nice day :o)

Good morning Jenni and Martine,
Over here it is also a beautiful day. We have our annual party for the dive club this afternoon and evening. With a BBQ, so I'm glad that the weather is co-oparetive
Jenni- that was a really early rise this morning!

Enjoy the saturday!

Good Morning Martine What will the transit of Venus look like? In uk? And what will you see in Egypt?

Good Morning Diana Sounds like you are going to have a great afternoon/evening with your dive club

Tonight Kev and I are going to a Cheese 'n Wine Evening with the Foresters [an organisation we are part of]. It is a great evening, free, with wine flowing all evening, and cheese and pate and the like. We have a speaker, and this year it is The Cheese Man - a man who lives near here and sells really unusual cheeses, eg nettle cheese. He is very interesting and talks and tells us about cheeses, and the shop he used to run.

Weather is cloudy here but with the promise of clearing. It is not cold, and I have already seen some sun earlier.

2 more boxes assembled and ready for packing and off I go again. I am loving emptying the wardrobe and drawers

Jenni- sounds like a very nice evening as well... don't try to get 'tipsy', lol.

Hi Diana,
Sounds nice evening to all of us :o)
Transit of venus is like an eclipse. Venus will cross the sun from east to west in the south part of the sun on june 8th from 05.20 AM till 11.15 AM UTC. Datas are also available for Holland. Just refer to this url : http://ds.dial.pipex.com/eclipse99page/venus.htm
The problem in UK is it may be cloudy, that's why we are going to Egypt ( and for diving too :o) )
Do you still have coffee, mine is over :o)

first light


Diana, I think when the 'do' is free, and the wine is flowing the idea is to get a bit tipsy LOL

Martine, I'm just making more coffee, so I'll put enough on for you too and some more in case anyone else is popping in for coffee

Thanks for the info re Venus crossing. I understand. If we have a cloudless day we might see it, and if not, then not. Bit like the eclipse a few years ago. We went to France to make sure we saw it. Absolutely fabulous experience that was

It's dawn on Bonaire and lunch time here :o)

I've made a big cafetiere of coffee, so there is plenty for all who come And am just heating and frothing the milk

Martine, thanks for the link for explaining the venus transit, now it's clear. I'll try to get a glimpse of it when it's not cloudy on the 8th of june
Thanks for the coffee, Jenni. I'll go and pack my diving gear for the club dive before the BBQ.

Have a good day all, if we do make nice pictures this evening, I will post some on cc tomorrow.
Enjoy the wine and cheese, Jenni.
And have fun with the astronomy club Martine.
Bye for now!

Wowee !

Good Morning Jenni, Diana and Martine and to everyone. I was thinking of you Martine when I heard about the Venus transit on TV. Jenni, I hope the packing is going OK, I started really early 2 years ago when we moved into our home. My sister is packing now for her June move, a lot of her stuff is stored downstairs of our home. Diana, your day sounds great!!

I hope to pop in from time to time today, until then.

Don't you see "Crush" ( Nemo's seaturtle ) ?

Martine, so you watched "Finding Nemo" last night. So Howdy Dude.

Starbucks coffee is on.

Last night we went to the Greek Festival at the local Greek Church. It is a new church and really nice. Great Greek music, dancers and a great place to have dinner.

Today a grandson is playing his last soccer match of the spring season. A must see event.

Finding Nemo is a great movie! I see Crush Martine. Sounds like you had a great night John and even better day ahead.

Hi John Thanks for the Starbucks. Very timely. I'm just on a visit downstairs, having a rest from packing up. A lad in the street, who often helps me, came by and put the boxes in the loft for me - except one of books which was very heavy. I was much appreciative.

John, I was at a Greek restaurant last night and had Greek dinner too! Really good food yum yum Enjoy the football match!

I haven't seen Finding Nemo yet. Got to get round to it by the sounds of it.

Whoops, missed off the last bit..... it read...
And certainly sounds like you enjoyed it, Martine

Hi Eileen and Bye Eileen

Hi everyone. Jenni. The answer to yesterday's question is, we are going to Santa Ponsa (hope I spelled it right). Have been to Alcudia years ago, and loved it, never been to this place though, so I don't know what it will be like. Just got back from shopping. All I got was a pair of toe post sandals. Annie B.

did you want to go on a shopping spree, Annie? I hate it when I go out to buy a lot of things and then can't find anything, and when I don't want anything I see loads of things I want [and have to buy, of course] LOL



Santa Ponsa is in the south of the island of Mallorca, and not that far from Palma, the capital. I'm sure you'll have a great time. When you going, Annie?

Good Morning all,
I like visiting this site: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/
where, if you check the archives, there are some wonderful shots of comet Neat and other great stuff.
mary W

Cool site Mary!

Couple from the archives.


My sister is over - diaper change person ! We are going to go out later and get our haircut. I am going to get mine very very short, I am fed up with growing it out LOL!!

Nice links and great posts today everyone! I'm so glad it is Saturday...I got to sleep for almost 11 hours last night (to make up for the 6 or so I got each night the rest of the week) Found some fish in the archives

Barbara, all I have to say is, I am not JEALOUS! LOL!

Your day will come Eileen, in a few years that is... not so LOL?

Come closer Chubby!

Morning all! Martine, have fun tonight, hope you are feeling better

Jenni, too much packing! ugh!

Eileen, I won't even mention how many hours of sleep I got last night I take it our BT Baby Quinn is NOT sleeping through the night?

Annie, looked up where you are going...looks nice! What are "toe post sandals?" flip flops? thongs?

Cynde, every 3 - 4 hours isn't bad for us, but he is an early riser!!! And late to bed too...LOL!

Janice and I (and Quinn too) are leaving for our haircut. Our hairstylists can't wait to see him. I am looking forward to getting my hair really short again.

Bye for now!

Eileen, early riser and late to bed...oops! Have fun at the hair dressers! I imagine you want it short so it's easy to take care of!

splish splash...


someone's nose peeking in...

Looks like a lightbulb at the top Am I the only one here today? Michael has CG duty, so I'm cleaning and then going to tackle all of the thank you notes to send to everyone that helped me in PR later today and tomorrow

Lots of chubs again!
I'm just peeking in periodically Cynde

Scanned the archives...looks like a log going by

Look at this!

Barbara, that second one is surely a ghost fish

Cynde. Not sure, but I think you call them thongs. I bought white leather ones to wear with my combats in the evenings. Annie B.

Annie, yes, flip flops or thongs...now what in the heck are combats???

Lookey, the diamonds are sparkling.

Hello, my hair is short again! I do not think I will try to grow my hair out again. My sister had a chunk taken off too! She looks great.

Some from the archives.

Igor and Cinthie's sign says, Come over for a Brights.

Time for dinner!!

Sarge at dusk.

I returned well in time for sunset :o)

Well, it's a bit late, but it is better than NO sunset, hmmm ?
I saw the comet tonight through my binocular and Jean Paul filmed Jupiter through a 14 inches telescope :o)

The Genious of the night is arriving on Bonaire to wish a Good Night to eveybody...

The Genious of the night spreads his wings and flyies away to further westward countries, lighting stars in the darkblue sky. Hush !
Good Night...