Hello everybody,
I thought someone would already opened a new thread.
Jean Paul left this morning, he presently is at the airport, his plane is leaving 12.25, means, when the day is beaking on Bonaire. 22 hours flying... I think he won't be able to seat down for a week :o)
I feel sad, it's the first time we separate in 5 years, but I don't worry, everything will be OK with him and with me. Have a nice day, I am staying around... ;o)

Good Morning Martine and to everyone. Martine, here is a hug for you this morning.

Good morning Eileen. Thanks for the hug, it makes me warm. Can't stop crying, but I think it is the accumulated stress of these past weeks I have to evacuate. My niece arrived safely from China this morning, thanks God, she looks fine. Have a nice day, I promice to post the sunrise pics for you.

I have some things to do this morning, so I am off too, I'll look forward to seeing the sunrises this evening, Thank-you!

I am sure everything will be fine, it is easier said than done. My thoughts are with you today!

Have a wonderful day everyone!

(Message edited by Eileenbkimmett on April 10, 2003)

Martine,
The time will go fast and then you will have a great reunion ........It's good that you will be able to spend some time with your friend.....also no meals you "have" to cook, you can watch what you want to on TV, no snoring LOL...it can be a mini-vacation for you too!

Morning Carol,
You're right, this is the positive side of the story. This remembers me a very famous french song performed by Juliette Greco ( years 60, perhaps you know about her ) which is called "18 days" and she says she's desperate cause her hubby left for 18 days and she feels she won't bare it. But she had so much fun during the time he left the song ends saying : "my God, you are already returning tomorrow, 18 days are too short". That's precisely the time Jean Paul will be travelling. LOL
This also gives me the opportunity for dieting before we go to Bonaire. Then I will look like a James Bond girl in my diving suit :o)
I wish you a nice day.

And it started for a new day on Bonaire. 57 days left till we are there :o)

Martine,
Your English is wonderful and my French is almost non-existent (I know food terms ), but I had to laugh (and I hope you will too) at your use of the word "bare". "Bare" means to take off clothing .....you meant "bear" which means to carry a burden or cope with something difficult. They are pronounced exactly the same way - just different spellings and meanings. "Bear" also means the animal (like a polar bear).......our English language is very confusing, but I think you do a great job. I just had to tell you this...so I hope the lady in your song was able to "bear" her husband being gone and didn't "bare" it instead!

LOL Carol,
Of course the song means bear, but I wonder how the singer would have written it after her hubby's return...Oh, shame on me, perhaps I shouldn't have said that and Jake is able to censure me !!!

Good morning, Martine and Carol and Eileen.
Coffee klatch for the ladies this morning, I see.
Fish flurries below, which beats snow flurries here.

Hello Holly, good morning.
Quite early to have some action on the reef cam. I think I'll have a nap, catch you later.

Parrot fish?

morning ladies Martine, Michael was gone for 2 weeks recently, the longest we had been separated in over 10 years! The first week was the hardest, then i got used to sleeping in the whole bed! LOL!

Holly, is this the same fish?

nope, different caudal tail!

Hi Cynde, morning gal,
I know it will be shorter than I imagine :o)
Thanks to you too for helping. I am OK, just a little bluezzy ( don't know if it's the right writing ).
Regarding the fish, I wonder if it's not a four banded butterfly seen from a very strange angle...
or maybe a trunk or file fish ( because of the tail shape). It truly looks like a spanish dancer, but impossible to meet in the caribbeans.
The sun is back shining here but we had a short hailstorm ( ice drops big as rice grains ).

Seems Satch has got a new friend, but I really do not understand what this man means telling about frozen pipes. Please, explain me.

martine, sometimes when it is really really cold (well below freezing) the pipes in the house will freeze...can create quite havoc! I think he is talking to all those folks on the North East Coast and Canada who are having snowstorms in April! LOL!

Holly. Looks like a juvenile princess parrotfish to me. Annie B.

So, he can count us in the lot. Thanks Cynde, and hello Annie. Nearly five o'clock tea here, ugh ?

Hi Martine, and everyone else. Yep 3.30 here, late for me to pop in, but I have to rest up.

caught the sailboat

4.30 here, sorry, I forgot you are running one hour earlier in UK.
I can't tell if the sail boat is Woodwind or Sea...something. I can't recall her name.

You know what ? IT IS SNOWING !

Raining heavily here. Where's the divers. Annie B.

Whoops wrong Pic. LOL

Shame we can't edit the pix.

Good morning all!
Great early morning pics....ahhhh Bonaire!
I don't think I like the joke about the snowstorms in April!! :-(.... :-) Frozen pipes?! I hope thoughts of tht is behind us as well!!
Enjoy your little break, Martine, Jean Paul will be home soon and you can have a joyous reunion!! We will have to have a webcam party on Jakes beach one day for fun and to get you ready for your trip!!!
Annie, are you feeling better? I hope so!! My daughter has a cold/fever and feels yukky.
Hi Holly, I am originally from NJ, where do you live?
Cynde, any sign of Georgie?
ML

Hi, everyone, peeking in for a minute...looks like you already posted what I just picked up in the archives....Have a great day, see you all later!

Someone check the archives there were divers!
ML

Mary Lou. A little better today thanks. Not 100% though. I was just about to ask how Laura was. Hope she feels better soon. Annie B.

Snow in Paris? Oh Martine!
Yes, Cynde, has the cat turned up?
Hi, Mary Lou. I'm in Camden County now. Grew up in Mercer.
Glad you caught the divers, Annette--I turned my back at the wrong time.

Don'tcha just hate it when that happens Holly. Annie B.

Hey Martine, How much snow you got falling. I don't want it over here you know. LOL

Annie, Mary Lou, Cynde, please forgive me, I forgot to ask about you, but my thoughts are with you.
Yes we had a snow/hailstorm shower, but it is melting when on the ground. I remind, around 25 years ago, it snowed in Paris First of May. They said it will turn warmer for the week end.
I missed the divers too... I was on the phone with my mother in law. But I got this one

Annie, are we "snow quarantined" ? LOL

Good morning, all. Just popped in to say, "HI!" before heading off to work.

I see I missed the divers, but the fish and the boat and the trucks are still around



Will check in later. A big hug to you, Martine.

Annie, glad to hear you are a little better! Keep heading in that direction! I think Laura will fel better in a few days. She isn't going to class tonight so she can rest. Thanks for getting the divers!
Holly, I was born in Lakewood and lived in Toms River until I was 7. I still have an uncle in Forked River but I don't get that way often.
Martine, ugh snow! Ours will hopefully be gone today, finally sunny and warm here (50F). Amazing how the sun and a little warmth can make things seem so much better!!
Dan, have a good day at work!
ML

Made it to work. Its currently high thin clouds in Juneau with a temp of 36F/2C.

Let us see--the boat is gone , the fish are gone , and all but one of the trucks are gone . Since now one posted between my last and this post (unless someone has while composing this one) its a goner.

And I'm gone to get some work done.

Ah, Mary Lou, I see you snuck one in on me!
Good morning to you

And, seriously, now, I put my nose to the grindstone and get at it.

Hi all,
I feel exhausted so I gonna go to bed, watch a DVD and sleep. My 17 bachelor days life has started, no cooking to do, just doing what I want. Dieting tonight ( do not feel hungry, that's great). Tomorrow is another day, a good night of sleep, and I'll wake up fresh and rest. Thanks all for all your warm thoughts, you are wonderful. Catch you tomorrow and I'll have a look to the sunset pics you posted while having my morning coffee. Bye, bye. I all.

hi all, quick peek in...thanks for asking about georgie, but he still has not shown up...saco has now taken up walking around the house with dog toys in her mouth meowing...all through the night too...then she finally will come and lay on the bed with us and the dogs i think she misses him...michael says that she is now "free"

blubeard or parrot in waiting...

Hi, sorry to hear about Georgie, Cynde... :-(

Good afternoon Barbara!
Everything sunny in CA? Finally sunny in Maine :-)!
ML

Oh, and Dan, don't put your nose to the grindstone to hard! That would hurt!
ML

Hi, Mary Lou! Nice here, enjoying the 70's...we have a brief spell of mild weather between wet winters and HOT summers. Glad the sun is coming out in Maine!

Well, here are a few late visitors, don't know where they went but looks like they left their car...UB

A bit of gate action...

Hey, topkick, howzit going? GMTA...did your pics appear...I just see the image here signs?

Now there they are!

Hi Barb, How about sending some of that Sac sun back here to the east coast...We are about ready to start another ocean with all this rain...
At least you had one pic that I missed... I am fine...UB

Another passerby....

First Sunset

I do believe that's Charlotte going back and forth

Lots of visitors and another sunset

Dad blamed thing said my pic was to large..trying again.

Martine, "that man" at 10.08 was me, and I put up that sign for my mom because it's rather cold at night in Holland right now . I'm here at Jake's today helping to fix up old computers...

Hi , had a stunning day at the beach today, nicole encountered a barracuda while snorkeling !!!They decided it was a tie (draw) , couldnt make up who was scared the most ;-))))
Today Amber, (our daughter) went on her first solo swim , that is "solo" ofcourse. After that she couldnt stop running straight into the surf !!!!Ya gotta love them beach babes .

Anyway, still no luck on finding cheaper deal.
Marc , overleg eens met Jake , Inside is inside . maybe the two of you can give me some advice ???
Have a balllllllllll !!!
Greetings sjoske.
Eileen , here's some sunshine just for you (************)

Nice pictures everyone. I fell asleep again. I think I am getting too used to not working. LOL I thought that was Marc at the gate earlier, but the sign he was holding threw me off track. Annie B.

Anyway. Nice sunset.

Another one.