Ok, i know, it is really still Monday, but most of you are across the pond, or across the country and are all tucked in! boo hoo...quitin' time for me...here is LAST nights sunset!

Very sneaky way to start the next days thread, Cynde! :-) Great sunset...they've been exceptionally nice the past 2 nights. Time to head out for the evening here in Sac-town.

Cynde...thats what I do..I start em the night before.... Thanks for the sunset its beautiful

Hi everybody,
Tuesday started for true here. It looks like an autumn tuesday and we need to wear a long sleeves jumper and raincoat. Time to go out for work. Have a nice day.

Good Morning Everyone, another work day, I would love to be on a beach right now. Have a great day! Eileen

Hi there all you Guys and Gals...
Beaaaaaaaaaaautiful capture of the sunset..glad i popped in :-)

Hi everyone, Just taking a quick break from the housework. Annie B.

fishy.
nice day brewin'

I'll try that again.
Nice day brewin'

Hotlips says morning too. Oh well it's back to the cleaning for me. Annie B.

YIKES!!!

Sounds like a domestic lot today! I think I'll go clean a toilet!!

Dreams folks. Just so long as you are vacuuming with dreams of Bonaire sun, breezes, and reefs - you'll maintain your sanity, or what is left of it. Or maybe, you are really just crazy anyway. no matter!

Unfortunately I am in the "doing stuff" mode today as well, and can't zone-out in the Bonaire internet universe all day.

I like Maggie's style. Now she knows what that street cam is about. More posers!!!

Have a great day. Bundle up Martine. Don't what the chills.

Bill

Good morning everyone!

It looks like Annie is going out to do some windsurfing!

Bill, Is that what is known as domestic bliss, cleaning a loo, whilst dreaming of Bonaire lol. Annie B.

Annie B,

My shrink would probably call it nuts!!

How did Annie P. get that great job. Next year it should be put out for bids!!

Cheers,

Bill

Morning all!
I'm doing homework - just popping in when I need a break. I could probably get more done if I just stuck with it!

Carol

Hi, everyone...we're off to a much cooler day in Sac-town...high 80's-YAY! Here's a few fish from the archives. Happy Tuesday!

Here's a visit from Bluebeard..

Activity above water, and below...

Hey Bill i know i'm crazy..lol
and isnt a pity toilets dont clean themselves aye..just about have everything else except cleaning function..lol

It's been busy at the underwater cam and Bluebeard is liking the limelight today...

Hi Janeece - Well we are all probably a little, or a lot, nutty! Just need to hang out with nutties of the same stripe I guess. Hey - Bonaire Talk!!

Common ground - us all wanting to live in the same place. Just saw an inteview with Deepak Choopra. He was saying some guy did a study observing people in restaurants and how often they touched in one hour during their conversations.

Latin America - 180, Italy - 75, America - 2, Britain - he sat observing for an hour and nothing happened!! Direct correlation in the population with cardio vascular problems and lack of touch. So get out there and get physical!! (I just gave the cat a hug. HA!

So no matter which way the water swirls in your toilet, keep on cleaning.

Cheers,

Bill

Still activity underwater...

End above...

Hi, Garrett, that was a busy group...this looks like a follow up to yesterday's dance routine...

Oh, an Bill, does doing physical exams on patients count or does it depend on what you're examing? :-)

Hi Barbara, yes it looks like...!
but where is your image?

Ok, its OKIDOKI now!!

Wow! they have painted the sea!!!

Sorry about the mispelling of your name Gerrit...didn't notice I used the American spelling until I sent the post off... :-)

Barbara,

Excellent question. Hmmm? With regard to specific "locations", GOOD question!

Strictly a personal observation, but I have experienced medical professionals who relate empathetically and probably personally benefit from, and help others, in the way in which they "touch" with caring and compassion. So I think they probably benefit themselves as well as giving benefit.

However, I have also experienced many others who might as well have been checking the radiator cap in a car engine!! Doubt if they got anything from it, and they certainly didn't send any positive vibes out!!

So in conclusion - "connection" would have to accompany the "touch"?

Now about that massage.............

Bill

Wel never mind! al doos lenkwitschus...!

Bill, I'm old enough to have been taught massage in nursing school...don't think they teach and definitely know no one in a hospital has time to do one anymore...you're right about the connection part. And, Gerrit....HUH? My Dutch is missing!

Hello Barbara, I think my dutch is missing to, but reading it out loud, I think I understand what Gerrit wanted to say...

Gerrit, is it something like "Al die talen??"


Martin
(as Dutch as Gerrit....)

ohkay, DUH, noh I geht hit....

Ja Martin, aai em djooking!

barbara, great capture of bluebeard!! looks like he is eating that other fish..."finger food!"

GERRIT!!!!! hoW are you???? are you going back to see Sandra anytime soon??? I still have the tin (minus the great holland cookies) that you gave to me on my birthday...full of coins now

Yes, yes I snep...

It looks like I need a major part of Bonaire really fast...... I'm suffering MAJOR PBD!!!!!

martin, where have you been????

someone left a tire on the beach...

Cynde, I have been working a lot, I'm trying to find a nice location for a small party somewhere next year for family and friends and I have re:installed my computernetwork... It has been kind of busy around here...

ok martin, only reason i am here today is that our publishing engine is EXTREMELY slow today, and i am peeking in while i am waiting for my documents to load into the system!

Looks like it's a yellow wrasse convention...Hi, Cynde...I'm having a long lunch and long waits between consults today....

When my cliënt complain about the speed of their system, I allways tell them that our software is verry advanced, it even adapts to the speed of the user... Are you working with our software????

martin, just be...i think i remember you selling us our current publishing engine (actually we had a software developer write it:-)

Cynde...Maggie and I used the tire today..it is SO hot and light winds..not too comfy today..I am spent. Wil go get it soon. Jake told me the doggies like to go to the beach but once there they would NOT come in to the gate..in fact they wandered WAY down the beach. I was so scared they would run away. Finally both kids are in. Now if I can find the cat...

Snorkeling in front of the house is great. Maggie had a blast. She is now eating popcorn reading one of the MANY fish ID books J and L own.

Ok, back to work.

Annie

Sometimes you just wanna trow those machines from h.ll out of the nearest window. Bot on the other hand, we couldn't have had such a great community of Bonaire lovers...

Sometimes we cann't find the time for reading all the posts but that is a big mistake. I think I have to get my priorities set right... I'll try to tell my boss I have to watch the cams more often during working hours...

That's the closest I ever saw Bluebeard! Wonderful!

More tire time

hello I am back I wanna be in bonaire I wanna look out my sliding glass door and see the same view that I had outside of the sliding glassdoor that i had at the belmar.

hubby saw this post and told me he will find a shower curtian that has a beach scene get several of them the length of the sliding glass door and hang them up so I would have the view I told him thanks but no thanks would not be the same but appreciated the efforts so now my co-workers are asking what great adventures are you off to now. Well I want to go to bonaire again but hubby says no no to many other places in the world to go and I said fine I have one extra week a year than you do and the girls and i will go to bonaire. But when I told one of my customers about my vacation told me about thier trip to south africa and how they went on safarai and how cheap it really was because you get 11 south african dollars for 1 us dollars hummmmmmmmmmm could that be our next adventure.

Hi folks, Just popped in to catch up on the events of the day. It's been a hot sticky one today. Enjoyed looking at all today's pics. I gotta talk to Annie cc about this new job of hers. Hope you found the cat Annie. Annie B.

I'm sure this one is smiling.

Divers

And more


I am sure I have seen this toy before! hmmm

Not sure what happened there.

Okay, I got it out of the archives Annie B...hope this works...

GMTA Annie...That dog seems to be as busy as the others on the island!

Hi Barbara, I loved your close up of Bluebeard. He sure is handsome. Annie B.

Good night everybody,
Hoe gaan det Martin en Gerrit ?
It seems you have a lot of fun tonight. What's that about people touching eachother in one hour conversation ? Bill, it seems you forgot the french in you statistics...We are very clever. Wow, it is hard for me to understand you tonight, please, tell me what LOL means at the end of some of your sentences ? You often use it, but I really wonder what it means. Christine, happy to see you're back and enjoyed, sure you'll soon get a BPD. South Africa is great too, we were there last year in june to witness a total solar eclipse and will return in december to witness another total solar eclipse. Kruger park is fabulous !

Martine, I think that LOL means lots of laughs. Annie B.

It seems one of the two tugs is back home.

It seems one of the two tugs is back home.

Thanks Annie,
Here we say MDR (mort de rire - dead cause laughs)
Won't stay too long, tomorrow is another day of work.

it was wonderful at our place at the belmar we had an end unit and because of that our patio had a spectacular view of the water and we got to see dolphins that came swimming by everyother day it was so wonderful I wanted to jump in and swim with them but hubby wouldlnt let me said are you crazy and I said you let me swim with maneating baracuda but sweet little dolphins just because they are huge you wont let me near them sometimes men think so strangly.

Martine, Yeh! i'm getting tired too, but will stay a little longer. I hate work, love the moneeeeeeey though. Annie B.

Who's this fella?

I quite agree with you Christine !
But most of dolphins are not "flipper" and don't let divers/snorkelers approach too close.

Annie ?
£££££ $$$$$ me too....

I was so glad thought I got one of those reefcombers guide that was plastic that I could take underwater so instead of saying aw that black fish with the blue spots (yellowtail damselfish) is beautiful I could know what it was really called. I will never look at the underwater world with the same eyes again when we were flying over a land mass with hardly any development along certian coast line of the country not sure if it was hati or cuba I saw all that beautiful water and thought oh how would I like to be down thier checking out what is underwater.

Martine and Christine, i thought that dolphins were gentle inquisitive creatures, and would not hurt anyone. Does the TV paint a wrong picture of them. Annie B.

Annie cc, You certainly know how to make a gal go green with envy. Annie B.

No no Annie,
I had the chance to swimm with wild dolphins in Reunion island, they were around 20, hard to say. We were returning from a dive, and they headed the boat. We stopped the boat and we returned all in the water, just snorkeling, but the dolphins were a bit shy and didn't let us approach, I mean they were flying away, but not too far...They were curious and shy at the same time. This experience remains one of my best dive memories.

well i have heard different things from different people once on the local news they talked about that dolphins in the wild have hurt some people but it could be just wanting to keep people from trying to get from jumping in and trying to interact in the water with them as it was while thier was alot of dolphins off the coast. My boss said they went to a swim with a dolphin encounter with another couple and that while her and her husband had never had any kind of surgery thier dolphins let them pet them but the other couple the husband or the wife cant remember exatcly which one had some kind of surgery and the male dolphin kept rubbing against that persons body and the female dolphin wass upset and got aggressive so it was not a good experience and I also heard if it is around your monthly cycle time is not a good time to get in the water with them

Martine and Christine, Very interesting behaviour. Christine you rang a bell their with the montly cycle, I remember seeing on Discovery, a woman diver encountered a dolphin during that time of the month, and he did get quite amourous with her, did not attempt to hurt her though. The thing is, I suppose you just have to be very careful at all times. It just goes to show, also, that all species suffer from jealousy too. Annie B.

I see that Annie has got Grendal under control, now where's that Kitty. Annie B.

Annie,
I think I saw this program too. Well, I can't be a good test next time I meet dolfins to proof this theory, cause...well... you know what I mean looking at my profile...The only dolphins I was able to pat were in Marineland california. Scrubby skin to touch, but nice, marvelous, tender, friendly, amusing, teasing, wonderful dolfins. I truly love them and dream to approach them closer.

Time to go to bed now. Have a nice night all, and see you tomorrow.

Martine, I too would not be a good test, same age group as you, now that's given something away, ha ha! I think everyone dreams of swimming with dolphins, but I think the message is just be a bit aware, if you know what I mean. I think it is time for bed now. More cleaning to do tomorrow whilst dreaming of Bonaire. Love talking to you. Annie B.

Nice sunsets as usual.

To me LOL means Laughing out loud.

ROTFL: rolling on the floor, laughing

There are many other internet abbrieviations
such as IMO, IMHO, IMNSHO, IIRC, etc.

Bob

Bob Ilove that,ROTFL, Guess we'll just learn as we go along. Annie B.

Now where have you been blikje.

Martine,

One site with internet abbreviations at:

http://www.netlingo.com/emailsh.cfm

Also, the brief interview I saw didn't talk about the number of touches each hour by the French, but my bet would be one-big-long-one-hour-touch!!

Bill

nice sunset...5 more minutes and I get to go home and have a nice glass of wogga wogga

Kitty is home..we had dinner at Garden Cafe with Dara..YUMMY..and when I got home Blinkje was outside..the little devil..and Grendel struck again...so far today she has eaten one of Maggie's reef shoe and somehow got my paperback OFF the top of the grill and ate it up..LOL..she is something..got to pick the clothes before she has dessert..LOL

NITE

annie cc...i can't even count how many shoes, books, papers, rugs, blankets, couches, chairs, toys, dishes...the list goes on...that our dogs chewed up when they were under 2 years! i would swear that i had EVERYTHING out of reach, and walk in the room and they would have something! better put those jeans in a a safe place!