Good morning BT-ers.
This time I will serve you some coffee or tea.

Have a great monday to you all!

Morning Diana, Tea for me please and then I will put the toaster on.
I've started the packing, Bonaire on Saturday! It is making the start of the week much better.

Julia... I can imagine that it makes the monday much better, knowing that next week you be on Bonaire... (I'm not jealous, of course )

Good Morning Diana, Julia and all.
I take a cup of tea, please.

Torsten

Thank you for the coffee! Good Morning Diana, Julia (not jealous) and Torsten (I hope you are feeling better). I wish everyone a great morning and day today (Joel leaving early for work).

Barbara, I am sending you my hugs and thoughts to you.

good morning all!

What a beautiful image to start with.
Thanks for the coffee!

could not resist this one:
bonaire on fire, great shot!

Hi everyone. Happy Monday to you all. Fantastic colours this morning Dan. Annie B.





(Message edited by annette on October 18, 2004)

great annie!
well, this girl has seen a great sunrise...
hopefully she brought here camera with her

Good Morning Everyone,

I'll take a cup of tea for openers. Nice pics for a start of a new day. Thanks for the tea.

Debbie

hello Debbie.

well, here is a early visitor at Willy the Wreck....

Good morning everyone. Annie - that shot is GREAT - looks like a person looking back at us - I think I'll call her Morning Beauty though she really should do SOMETHING with those eyebrows. I'll take some decaf please...oh wait, I have some Starbucks decaf already.

Here's to everyone. Even those I am jealous of...going to Bonaire soon...without us... (sniff, sniff)



Mara

Good Morning all, Nice to meet you, I am new here. Looks like some of you are leaving for the island soon. I am leaving Saturday the 23rd for my 2nd trip there .

Hi Stan, Mara. Welcome to BT, Ty. Yes, there are some of us going, some are already there, and of course, there are some of us wishing we were there! The later would be me. I got PBD bad today.

And others wish they still would be on island...

We came back this morning and when I was ready to go to the office, I found out some piece of S#$T found it a good thing to break into my car. So, about 4.5 hours later, all the files are completed, the car is at the garage and my blood pressure is coming down to normal values...

I think I need a vacation BAD!!

And a warm welcome to the new BT-ers off-course.

My friends went for the first time in 2002 and i went with them in 2003 we have decided that this will be an annual trip. we figured we cant possibly see everything there unless we go every year.

Ty - you are a man after my own heart. I am happy to report that this has become an annual trip for myself and for others as well. First trip was in 1998 and I've been every year (sometimes 2 or 3 times in the year) since then.

Martin - I am SO sorry that happened to you. IT SUCKS when people do that AND when we find out about it right after vacation. One year they did a company re-organization while I was on vacation in Bonaire. I got to find out about who was let go when I got back. And that was the trip where we had to over night in MOBAY because AJ were kind of screwed up. Oh well - that's how the cookie crumbles. It just somehow seems to negate our time off - sigh.

Martin, how terrible for you! Here's a couple of hugs to make you feel better!

Ty, glad to hear you enjoyed Bonaire. It is the kind of island that keeps calling you back and back and back. You don't have a pic in your profile, if you post one, we will know who you are when you wave at the web cams at Bongo's or under the sea!

What a beautiful sunrise this morning! Morning, all!
Martin, how awful! Hope it's all straightened out soon.
Ty, welcome - or welcome back!

Goodmorning/afternoon everyone! Another busy day for me today, but I will try to pop in

Martin....so sad about your car!!!! Big hugs to you!

Ghost fish

LaDonna

Kathy....GMTA.....LOL

LaDonna

Martin... What a way to come back! That will surely not decrease your PBD!

Hope you did have a great time on Bonaire, though!

Welcome Ty

It seems as if My pic file is to big and it will not let me add it to my profile. I am trying to crop it. It is pretyy scary anyway

Buenos Dias Everyone!!

I hope you all had a great weekend. Mine was sure busy but good and had lots of fun.

Welcome to those new BTers!!!

Barbara, I thinking of you and what you are going through, I can imagine it must be though but you know that there are a bunch of people who will give you a hand if you need to. Hope al works out for your mom.

Eileen, hope Quinn is doing ok with his teething.

Mara, I went to Tavern Bridge on Medlock Bridge on Friday boy was it fun. Have you been there? Maybe we can meet there sometime. The food was really good and the band was great. Did some dancing too

Another nice day !

A big hello to all coming in later!

That sounds great Elvira. And I believe I have been there. Does it have a little courtyard in front of the front door and it is near an ice cream shop too? If that's the place I've had lunch there but Pete and I (and maybe Boy) would love to meet you there sometime. We'll make a plan...

Now - here's looking at you kid!

AHHH success on the Pic. Thanks you all for the warm greeting and sorry to hear about that Martin.
Well I better get to work I will stop back and check in on you all though out the day. Those web cam pics are making it hard for me to keep focused on work. and with leaving for a week I better get my ducks in a row before I leave

Ty, you are right, it's scary... LOL

Thanks Martin, It is Halloween here in the states. LOL
How were the water temps there? last year I was in Bonaire and the temp at 100ft at the Hilma Hooker was 90 degrees. I used ny shorty all week so should plan in packing my 3 mm long suite or just the shorty?

Looks like we are going to have a breakfast party at Bongo's. They've dragged a bunch of tables together - get ready for the gang!

I think that they might be planning on some table dancing.... Now THIS could be interesting!

Mara, this place is in the same side of Stoney River Restaurant and I think we are talking about the same place. We'll just have to decide when!!

Martin, sorry to hear what happened when you came back from your trip

well, a busy morning at Bongo's!



(Message edited by rainwood on October 18, 2004)

and this time with an image..

Good Morning / Afternoon Everyone!!

Welcome Ty!! Pennsy huh....We're almost neighbours LOL

Jake, Dan ??? Looks like we have 'locked up'

I know, that's what I get for camming instead of painting!!!

Almost done with the paint - Need a second coat on the ceiling and some touch up on the walls.

Martin - sorry to hear about your break in - hope nothing valuable was taken. It's enough of a pain with all the paper work.

Barb, big hug to you - hope everything goes well with your mom in her new digs, and with your dad as well

Have a great day, I'll be peeking in from time to time - once I get everything done

Bill

morning Bill.

we almost missed a perfect center pose from Sarge...


And, lots of smiles back for Bill
He is smiling a lot today!

The WebCams have not locked up, but the connection that the WebCams server uses between Miami, Curacao, and Bonaire appears to be suffering from 80% packet loss (in non-geek speak imagine speaking with someone on the phone and only hearing 2 out of every 10 syllables - not good).

Hopefully it will get fixed soon.

Jake

Hello Everyone!

Jake thanks for the explanation - I hope it will get wells soon!!

Welcome Ty!!

TY - I will be arriving on Bon on the 24th for my 3rd trip in about a year. It is very hard to stay away once you start going! I hope to see you on the island!

Martin - I am so sorry to hear that your welcome home turned sour! I hope your week gets better!

Barbara - big hugs to you! You and your parents are in my thoughts and prayers!!!

Only hearing 2 out of every 10 syllables - that's like talking to my husband because that's all he hears. Maybe he's suffering from an 80% packet loss. Of course if he would go to the ear doctor we MIGHT get that taken care of... GRRR!

Marabeth, I don't think a doctor can help as it's an irreversible condition called MARRIAGE. I can hear 99%+ of friend's conversations, but they only hear 50% of each other (or less). Something about a ring on your finger appears to constrict blood to the brain.....

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, it's off to work I go.

2 weeks from tomorrow and counting

Hey Bill. I have a couple of rooms that could use some paint :-)

Looks like we're back in business

If you're going into business, Bill, our house really needs painting, too!

I get Bill's services first - he's a 20 minute drive away!!!! And I know how to compensate him (something about Hummingbirds eh Bill!) :-)

hmmmm, hummingbirds, eh?

An update to what Jake said.

Traffic between Bonaire and Massachusetts feeds primarily over a network owned by a company called Level(3). They have a very large circuit from Washington DC to Miami that is malfunctioning. That's tossing something like 40% of all traffic on that path.

Friends who work at the company say there's work going on to fix it. As I'm typing this, it appears the Level3 folks have managed to route around their problems.

Separately, there's still some data loss between Curacao and Bonaire.

Dan

divers going in?

Jake and Dan;

Thanks for the esplanation Gotta love long range computing!!

Cindylou and Cheryl - Sorry, but ain't NO way I'd ever go into the house painting biz - That 1 room has driven me nuts!!

But the good news is - it's ALMOST finished!!

Final coat is on the walls - have to let them set up for a couple of hours, and then I can put the final coat on the ceiling!!

And then, maybe I can get everything back in and clean up the rest of the house for Mrs. T!!

Lucky me, she's going to be late coming in - the train she's catching has been delayed by 4 hours.

Oops.... better find a picture....


Don't think they have many worries about sunburn right now LOL

Bill

Oh well Bill. Can't blame a girl for trying. :-(

If a freak shower comes up then maybe we can catch them scattering around and running for cover - LOL!

Ooops - no such luck - look at the beautiful sunshine.



Or not... The shot keeps changing every time I go to look in on it....

But Bill, now that you've done the Room from Hell, you've worked out all the bugs -- and I don't have any wallpaper to take down! Really, you should think about this

Okay, Cheryl - but....
You'd have to cover the cost of the paint....
and airfare from Toronto to Californie return....

That would be a pretty pricey paint job!!
Looks like "school's out"!!...


Bill

Wow Bill. The pressure is building!

Good point, Bill! Guess I'll have to give this some thought, too!
I'll check out Expedia and get back to you ... ;)

Hi, Mom

Ohhhh....Look!!



Someone is "finning" us!! ROFL

Bill

Hi All ,

look at the yelow flipppers hiding in the shade
LOL.
He/she had me look twice , felly vunny.




sjosss

GMTA, Bill.

How's the painting coming along ST???\
sjosss

Wowsa, you can even count the scales !!!!


sjopssss

WOW!!

Great "Catch", Jos!!

Just off now to get the final coat on the ceiling, then, I'll be back!!

Bill

Good morning, everyone.

Looks like its time for a new thread. As I recall, Jake preferred us to restrict ourselves to 50 posts per thread. Jake, is that still "the rule"?

So, here goes...............

Whazzat?

Dan,

No hard & fast rule on numbers of posts per thread, but be considerate of those on dial-up connections who have to wait forever for long pages to download.

Jake

Well well if it ain't sjossskee...and where did your trip take you? I want a trip report!

I was just saying time for a new thread when I found that one had been started More Monday