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Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 08:02 pm |
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Today started out as a slightly cloudy but beautiful morning, without the last few days initial rain. I had a quietly good morning at the cart; then one, then two then about five people had walked by saying, you better close up, rain is coming. I nodded and kept reading, with a lazy eye to the sky (which means craning around backward, where I can't see much anyway, unless I go out to the middle of the bridge, a few feet away).
Sometimes that means rain is coming, but won't last more than two minutes. Sometimes that means rain is sliding down the far side of the bay and won't touch me. Sometimes that means one cloud is spewing rain at the head of the bay and never gets any closer. How I respond, if I don't get up and see for myself, depends on who tells me it is going to rain on my head. But sometimes, no matter who says it, I know by the air temp change, a quick darkening, the hair on the back of my neck going up...it means, close the cart fast, and get under cover. Today was one of those days. I closed up in a slow hurry and headed over the bridge looking out to the sea . Coming in was rain covering both sides of the bay and out as far as I could see. About 10 steps on, fat, cold raindrops, the sort that sting your face, started slamming down. Mamacita's was the quickest dodge for cover. That must mean it's lunchtime. Fish tacos, yippie!
It has rained on and off since then. A going away party got shifted from the beach to a friend's house, via the coconut telegraph. But rain won't stop the Superbowl festivities planned at a few local bars, where I do believe that it could literally be dumping cats and dogs and the diehard fans wouldn't notice a thing...unless their beer started getting lapped away.
Sometimes people ask me what I do for entertainment (translate, don't you get bored out of your mind, since there isn't much organized entertainment going on here?). One thing we are good at is entertaining ourselves, usually through random, unexpected but very welcome diversions - watching boats try to dock or anchor, sharing weird questions we all get asked, talking about each other in front of our backs, catching a good rainbow, rainstorm, sunset, snorkeling time, whatever it might be). I don't bother to explain much but usually just say that it doesn't take much to entertain me...and that is true.
One diversion I get almost every morning at the cart is girl dog play time. Harley and Willow meet up with their respective owners and play in the middle of the road until they wear themselves out, a guaranteed 15 minutes of entertainment. Time outs are for cars that can be coming from any of 4 directions, ignoring the one stop sign in the bushes. Everybody stops anyway though, as two of the roads, though two way, are really 'one way at a time', since cars are parked up the sides, and if a car is coming it has to *clear* before another can go through. I often get asked if these are one way streets...the answer, as it often is on Culebra, is "Sometimes, but not really."
Here are Harley and Willow executing Flying Dogs of Culebra.
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Island Woman MJ
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Posted: Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 08:03 pm |
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Here is Harley, cheating
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Posted: Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 08:27 pm |
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love the first shot, and for once in my life, I'm going to refrain from commenting on the caption for the second picture. (although there are some good ones floating in my head).....it's a good thing I like Harley's father on Sundays only.....
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Posted: Sun Feb 3rd, 2008 09:42 pm |
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Great shot MJ! What a great way to start every morning, seeing two dogs having fun with an appreciative audience!
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