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May 20, 2005
A Lazy Day
We woke up this morning to gray skies and quite a bit of rain. It's been raining on and off all morning. Every one is out of the house and I have the rare opportunity of having the house to myself today.
I love these types of days once in a while. I can't get outdoors so I don't feel guilt over things that need to be done. However it also means I don't have an excuse for not catching up on things indoors that need to be done. OK, so I've got a load of laundry started and I made myself sit down this morning and see what shape the checking account is in. It's not pretty and I know I have to go find a job soon. I've taken off the last 5 weeks.
I got tired of commuting into the city. I was on the road 3 hours a day. I signed up with a temp agency out here...we're growing so fast the jobs are getting better....however it seems the health insurance benefits at this place were just a passing after thought...so I quit. I'm on COBRA now and have time, but I will have to get my insurance settled before long.
What I'd love to do is find something at home on the computer with benefits. Wouldn't we all :)
Anyway, that's all to deal with next week. Today, I'm just puttering and figured it was high time to clean out my computer picture files and do a little organizing. The one thing I've found out about digitals....you end up with a LOT of pictures. I thought I'd share some of my favorite pictures with you.
This was one of the first ones I took with my first digital. I didn't realize it had two settings when I turned it on...regular and the zoom. I had put the camera on zoom. Lucky mistake.
We travel when we can. Mostly road trips, but a few years ago we took a cruise over Thanksgiving. One of the ports was Grand Cayman. Not ones to do the 'cruise tours' we rented a Tracker and set off on our own. I think it's a lot more fun...and certainly more adventurous. We came across these carvings. Someone is certainly very talented. I think these are such fun! I smile every time I see them.
A couple of summers ago, we went over to a friend's house. He has a bit of property and in the evenings the deer show up in his lower field. We sat out there one evening waiting for them to show up so I could take some pictures. I took this shot while killing time...waiting. The deer never showed, funny how they only seem to appear when you least expect them, jumping out in front of vehicles...causing adrenalin rushes.
This one was also from the cruise. Just down this old sand road from Costa Maya. Costa Maya was created just for the crusie ship business and we skipped out of there as fast as we could. No Trackers here...but we found some bikes to rent. The very first thing we noticed after leaving Costa Maya was the abject poverty that was all around.
A short way down the road we came upon this HUGE mound of dirt across the road. Upon further inspection we found that on the other side of the mound was a deep ditch about 3 feet wide ...we were standing there scratching our heads trying to figure out how to get across when a woman leaned out the window of her shack speaking rapid fire Spanish. It took a little while for my brain to kick in and remember a little bit of my high school Spanish almost 30 years ago, but I got the message she was telling us to cut through her yard and cross on the other side of her house.
Yard might not be the best term...more dirt and sand. However we walked our bikes around....pass the pig that was sleeping under a tree and got to the crossing. There were several men there, they were the ones hand digging this ditch. They were very nice and help me and my bike across..and continued to walk with me down the road. Me smiling at them, they smiling at me. We were all having a fine time. About then I heard my husband yell....'Hey, what about me?' We'd forgotton all about him and left him behind. He did manage to get across....by himself.
We came across this house a little ways down the road. It just said something to me with it’s mismatched colors joyfully proclaiming it’s existence.
This next picture isn't so great as pictures go, but I like the memories it brings. We had taken the kids on vacation to the West Coast of Florida last summer. We took them canoeing on the Swannee and ventured up in to the swamp at this point. I'm not big on creepy crawlies, gators or snakes. So I was pretty proud of myself for going up there. I was just sure we'd encounter something. My husband took advantage of my weakness and would slap the paddle on the water from time to time, making me jump....Nice guy.
I really don't know what it is about this one, but I like it. There's this junk yard a few miles from us. Everywhere you look you see old junked vehicles.
I hear the dryer buzzing so I'll just show this last one for now.
It's not often you can see a double rainbow. There's one just to the right of the main one.
Well I hope you enjoyed the pictures...and I hope you enjoy the day.
Posted by aster1961 at May 20, 2005 12:35 PM
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