wishing

[plantpirate]

Sitting here in cloudy/chilly PA saying it would be cool to grab a kalik or a goombay smash and hop on the golf cart and go tooling around TC for the fun of it...soooooo cool!!!

[BahamaAngie]

Chilly, damp here too! Anywhere warm would be nice!

[JJ]

Nice and toasty here in central Florida, but it still ain't the same. I would also like to hop in a golf cart and be enjoying the Island Roots Heritage Festival on GTC. :(

[BahamaAngie]

I just want to be warm....hubbie is making a fire now. Even the heat is not getting the damp chill out. There was like a mist coming off the ocean....brrr...

[Rykat]

gotta agree these cold easterlies are getting OLD!

[BahamaAngie]

I know Rykat, or maybe we just are. Even bagged going out to dinner toight. The chill goes right through you. Have a good season!

[Cathy Arizona]

It's nice and warm here in northern Arizona and the desert looks beautiful. Some of our cactii are blooming. And for once the wind is not blowing like crazy. I love the desert. . . second only to Abaco and the sea.

[BahamaAngie]

That's interesting. Never thought of that kind of environment. Does your home back up to the desert??? Gets real hot in the summer though right? Some pictures would be nice.

[Cathy Arizona]

BahamaAngie, I live in a small town so nearly everything backs up to the desert. This is a high plateau desert, not like the deserts of southern AZ (Tucson, Phoenix). We are near the Navajo Nation. We get hot in the summer . . . high 90's or low 100's in the day but nice and cool in the evening. Not like scorching southern AZ where it can still be 100 degrees at midnight in August. Last Saturday we went boating through a local canyon. It was gorgeous. I had never been back in that canyon before and it's just an hour from home. Our house in Tucson is on a beautiful desert with the Tucson mountains out our front door and the desert and city of Tucson sitting down below us. Our daughter and her husband are living in that house and she is always calling to tell us about the fauna visitors. The other day she couldn't drive down the road because a family of havelina were crossing. She said the babies looked all roly-poly with legs that appeared about an inch long. Wish she would have had her camera. Guess they were a comical looking bunch. The week before that she said she was hurrying out the front door and discovered a snake sunbathing on the front steps. She thought it might be a baby rattler but I guess it turned out to be a gopher snake, thank heaven.

[BahamaAngie]

Oh Cathy, it sounds wonderful and especially the boating through the canyon. BUT I am extremely squeamish over snakes and such. What are havelina???? Nice thing about here only pests now are squirrels....with all the building, there aren't even skunks anymore or racoons. I don't like all the wild animal thingy....scares me!

[Cathy Arizona]

Bahama Angie,
Havelina are basically a wild pig. They can get pretty fierce but we just watch them without getting too close. I call my daughter in Tucson my "wilderness" child although she is actually in Tucson (the outskirts) what with all her coyote, hawk, and havelina tales, or should I say tails. She found a nest of quail eggs in a flower pot on her back patio. . . 16 eggs in all. She was so excited. The next day there were only 15 eggs. And the day following that they were all gone. No broken shells or remnants. We've been trying to figure what took them. Maybe a snake. Anyone know what would take eggs without leaving a mess? Or could the mother quail possibly have moved them?

[HALF-A-HAMIAN]

I would guess snake or coon.

[Gail from MA]

Cathy, I enjoyed hearing about life in Arizona. It's so exotic compared to life in New England. I really hope to see that part of the country someday. But first I needed to see the crystal clear waters of the Bahamas!

I live in the coastal area where Mass. meets Rhode Island. We have lots of really beautiful beaches close by ....Newport, Westport, and Little Compton, RI have great beaches with nice thick sand and big waves. Block Island is a great place to go, too. Of course, at all these beaches the water is ALWAYS very cold even in August. I like the cold water on a very hot day, (first you go numb and then you have to move around a lot in the water to warm up) and we go to the beaches every week in the summer. Can't snorkel , though... only place to see anything is in tide pools.

7 more weeks 'til I see crystal clear, WARM , waters!