Leaving soon for vacation....
 

I just edited my avatar, but I am still here for a short while.

I have alot to do before we leave, but will be here for a few days yet.

you can see my vacation place if you haven't already at:



I'll be having these links closed before I go, just for privacy sake.
I am just posting them for those who are curious as to where I go.

Loved them
 

I love them and your web art but some of the links would not open. Still it is a beautiful place. It looks a lot like our property but we're missing the water (under normal situations :p ) I love the water and really wanted to live in Seattle. I've never seen the East Coast.

Mrs. D, I'm looking forward to your pictures of this year. Thanks for sharing your vacation with us.

Billye

Mrs. D
 

Oh how lovely,thank you for sharing. and may you have a wonderfull
vacation...Enjoy but we will miss you. Hmmm i know next year if we
are very quiet can we all come. Oh pleaseee :eek: oh Mrs. D get up
i was only kidding.911 :) Sue

Roll on September:wink:

Have a great vacation.

Tony :)

Does your island have any 'spare room' for a Moose?? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v9...h-suitcase.jpg I'd fit right in with all the other animals :p

That place looks wonderful. It reminds me of the cottage that my sister-in-law used to own up-country.

I knew you were very smart -- didn't know you were talented too. Love your graphics.

You got any tomatoes growing up there?? I could bring my salt shaker :o OK, I'll stop begging now.

I know you're gonna have a fantastic time. Beautiful scenery. Handsome son. CATS. And swimming. What more do you need on a vacation.

Make sure to take your sunscreen with you. BIG HUGS (and love).

Barb

Very nice photo's!!
 

We will miss you Mrs. D.

What a nice long break. I wish I had a nice long break like that! Have a great time.:)

The pictures are just wonderful. I like that bear... He was sooo cute... I couldn't get the second link to open though.

Please post more when you get back...

Cathie
P.S. If you have time before you leave, would you please read my posting about the biopsy?
Thanks...

I will have to be content with missing you and enjoying the doe who has taken up residence in my back yard. She's been there about a couple of months now, right in the middle of town in my "rural holdout."

Happy vacationing to you, Dear MrsD.

rose

fixed the link...
 

Sorry, I didn't pay attention...this time I copy/pasted it correctly....duh?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrs_doubtfyre

Mrs. D.

The picture your son took with his digital camera. The one that's all red and everything. That is the most beautiful thing I ever saw.

It is now the background on my computer monitor.

How cool is that!!!!

Melody

Thanks Mel... I'll Pm you
 

his flickr account tomorrow...

There are OTHER sunset pics also on his site...along with some (many)
other artsy things. He has been consumed by the shutter bug since we bought him a camera last June for his birthday. There are better pics on his site, but I don't want to publish it here, for privacy reasons....

Look in your PMs tomorrow, okay?

He'll be flattered...some people have asked him for his pics already, some of the food ones he is doing are also excellent!

He won't mind, I'm sure. I will be talking to him tomorrow anyway so I'll ask.

Mrs D, reminds my of a
 

relative's cabin on one of those little lakes....nothing like watching the sun rise and seeing a loon 50 feet away on a dock! Recharges the soul! - j

Have a nice holiday holiday Mrs D, that sunset picture looks similar to were i live, but the sun is a big red glowing ball that when it gets to sea level it takes about 5 minutes to what appears to drop into the bay, its really beautiful.
ENJOY the break :)

I loved the sunset and the deer especially. I did not realize that deer swam. How far do they have to swim to get from one island to another? Do they stay on the islands year round?

Cathie

They are so lovely. I love the Aug sunset. It should be on a card. It looks so peaceful there. I hope you relax and have fun.

Those pictures are gorgeous.
 

And now I'm torn--I was going to have you kidnapped and tied to a computer terminal in an undisclosed location, as we really can't spare you for a couple of months, but that would mean you couldn't take any more pictures of the island . . .decisions, decisions. :p

Have a wonderful time.

Yeah!!! Peaceful!!!
 

That's exactly it!!!! That pic of the red sunset, absolutely blew me away. I must have stared at it for a few minutes. This morning, when I turned on my computer, there it was. What a nice feeling. To be able to look at a sunset and appreciate it's beauty.

The other pictures were very detailed and very nicely done.

Now I'm not a nature lover. I don't like frogs, deer, whatever. I'm a city person, who doesn't have little critters walking up to the back door (like many of my friends do).

There's even a woman around the corner who opens up her back door every morning (she owns the house) and she feeds every animal who comes to her back door. She owns cats, dogs and she treats them like humans.

I have never seen a person who actually has conversations with her pet.

Last night, she put him inside the house and we were sitting on the porch.

All of a sudden I hear this tap tap tapping right behind us. I turn around and sure enough there was Babe, the little Schit-zu (sorry spelling), and he was actually right behind Vivian and tap tap tapping the window.

I said "is he doing what I think he's doing, he's trying to talk to you to let you open the door again". We laughed. I opened her front door and let him out. He ran right over to her, she picked him up and there he sat, on her lap, licking every bit of her face. Everybody goes crazy over this little dog. Even me. EVEN ALAN!!! and he is not a dog person.

I'm not allowed to have any pets. Landlord said so when we moved here. But I did buy a hamster once. Bought all the toys, the tubing, the wheel. My living room looked like Petland.

You have never seen anything so funny, as the first time Alan walked in the house and there's this hamster running around my house in this ball thing. Alan almost had a stroke. He never had a pet when he was younger.

The look on his face was priceless. Some day I'll tell you what happened when Frank brought home a little frog he won at a bazarre. Frogs eat worms, so Frank bought home some worms.

You haven't see anything, till you've seen Alan, in his underwear at midnight, pointing to my front door and screaming "get that thing out of here".

I nearly lost my cookies that night, I laughed so much.

mel

our "family"...
 

You know Mel... that sunset pic was a bit contrived. It was wonderful, and soon you can see other versions of it. My son's camera has a feature called "white balance".. you use this somehow and focus on a color and it changes the picture. So he removed in essence most of the blue. I don't really understand how it works.
here is an explanation, but then I still am a bit fogged about it all.
http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tut...te-balance.htm

His camera also does black and white with one color added...and some of those pics are interesting too.

When I joined this family...the place up north was pretty sterile/bare. The cabin was dank, moldy, no animals. NADA. I love animals and over the years I've had the close trees taken down (we did that ourselves) to get more light in and air so the dank is better. The salt block brought deer, the bear, last year the hares, and we have more mink etc. I put up hummingbird feeders and now we have many hummers. 2 yrs ago one nested outside our bedroom window and we were able to watch that with pleasure. I put in flowers where rocks used to be. And fertilized the front and back of the house and so now we have ferns there, and wildflowers. There is no way to have GRASS however since it is rocky and poor soil. My son has over the years removed rocks so I can have paths to walk safely...so it is a bit more civilized.;)
I've changed the interior too to be more pleasant. When we use the place for longer periods I could not stand the bare ascetic feel. I needed a more colorful homey environment.

I'll get that PM to you later... gotta call the kid first.;)

The deer swim all the time, from island to island. Locals have seen them swim over a mile. We see them typically do maybe 1/2 mile from a point of land opposite us to our shore. What is really interesting is when the fawns come over too. Only the head and ears show and the little ones often fall behind the mom. I worry sometimes when boats are speeding by on the way to the deep water to fish for salmon...that they will HIT them. So I stand out there and wave my arms and yell if I think it might happen.

One summer we watched a BEAR swim over...that was interesting. The gulls really gave him a hard time..swooping on him attacking.
The mink swim back and forth all the time. We watched a family of 4 being brought to our old dock area (they use this as a nursery)
and it was fascinating..all the little babies protesting and squeaking, and Mom hustling them along. 3 made it well, but a fourth decided to stop at an exposed rock and be stubborn. She promptly went over to him/her and yanked him/her by the neck and dragged him/her to where the rest had settled..right below our FEET. We used binos for much of that event, until they got right up to us.
We heard this "commotion" but couldn't see it ..with the binos it was very clear.

we are officially leaving tomorrow...early in the morning.
 

We were going to leave today, but the weather is not conducive!

We will try the laptop, but that will not be an instant thing. We have to boat in and drive 13 miles to a wifi. We don't know if the wifi is still even where it was last year. Usually the first week is tough, getting things started, set up.
Then I will be alone for a week, as my husband has to come back for a mandatory meeting all week in Chicago. My son is coming on the 28th for a week, and that will be the first opportunity for a wifi attempt. Ugh..so complex with all this techno stuff! :o

I wish everyone here a painfree, or less painful summer. Bob, you take care of yourself well, ya here?

The rest of you try to "behave"? LOL :grouphug:

Please
 

don't forget to bring some sunflower seeds so we can become good friends

L O L...
 

we are taking 50lb of sunflower oilers, 50 lbs of corn (yes we had to shell out big bucks for corn) and two salt blocks --one white and one brown with minerals.

We did have a squirrel invasion 2 yrs ago...they were coming in the house thru the cat door, all day long and making a huge mess.

So we trapped with a Havahart trap 17 of them and boated them over to the mainland. Last season it was more normal...only a couple of the pesky things.
(the little red squirrels). But we did have many bunnies!

here is one eating a soy chip! Our cat caught many bunnies(actually called hares) last season, so I don't know if there will be so many this year (it is an island you know) or not.

I find your postings absoutely fascinating. I have never been around squirrels, bunny rabbits, hares, islands, whatever. It is absolutely mind blowing that you go to an island, that you have squirrel invasions, etc. etc. And you handle all this with such humor and it's just a normal day for you.

Why am I amazed?? Because last night, as I was sitting at my computer, a 5 inch long centipede (we call them "thousand leggers" in Brooklyn) appeared on the wall behind my computer and I thought I would die. You should have seen me running to get the bug spray and killing him.

And here you are, talking about squirrel invasions and bunnies, and here I am killing one stupid bug.


MAN, I HAVE TO GET OUT MORE!!!! THERE'S LOTS OF THINGS GOING ON OUT THERE. There's squirrels, and bunnies, lol

Alan, came home this morning from his nighttime security guard gig. We met for breakfast at Dunkin Donuts and I asked him "anything happen last night"? and he goes, "oh, just the usual". "There were a thousand people in Union Square park, people rollerblading, skateboarding, bongo playing and trumpets blasting, at 4 AM, and the police came". It seems someone called in a noise disturbance. I WONDER WHY?????? And Alan is having a staring contest with a little mouse. It seems he likes Alan and the little guy appears under the floor boards on the construction site where Alan is the security guard. The mouse, comes out, they have a staring contest and then the mouse goes back under the floorboards. I just looked at Alan as he is telling me this story. I am imagining me and a mouse. Oh my god.

I am pathetic, I know.

lol

Melody

Dan:

Did you ever see the movie "Somebody Up There Likes Me? with Paul Newman?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049778/

Saw it years ago.

Mel

Mrs D? I am going to do lots
 

of 'pretending' that I am at a similar wonderful place! Who knows? Sometime soon....Mentally I should go on one great 'retreat' in a way, somewhere.

Have fun! Get Sun! and recharge! - I'll miss you tho - j