Si. He once hit four homers in four straight at bats, I think. He was so BIG but so nimble and quick. And the bat speed. OMG!! The Blake Street Bombers at Coors Field.
I had season ticket right off the field. The first year at Mile High made great memories of Eric Young's first at bat and Gallaraga's batting championship.
I saw him many years later in Florida at a golf tournament and told him thanks for the great memories.
We had front row seats right over the wall between the two bull pens. Great seats for only $10/seat. We could get all 7 of us into Coors as our kids were 8 down to new born. Rockies didn't care cuz every game was a sellout.
Best memory of the Blake Street Bombers. It was NHL playoff time and the Av's were playing on the road. We arrived to the baseball game about 10 minutes late and were walking up Blake when the skies OPENED UP and it poured for at least an hour.
We ducked into an empty restaurant called Stars. Within a few minutes the placed filled up totally with folks waiting out the rain delay. We even shared our booth with another couple (no kids that night). We had a meal and when the game resumed at like 9pm we went back to an empty, and I mean like only 200 people, Coors Field.
They let us go down and sit right where the on deck circle was. All the people at the game were sitting in the 2 or 3 sections behind home plate.
We got to see, Walker, Vinnie, Big Cat, Dante and Ellis up close and personal.
We couldn't believe how HUGE they were!!! From center field they looked big, but up that close they were like GIANTS!!
Good times. Haven't been to a game in years. They have killed pro sports with politics.
Even though we were gone a lot longer than we had expected, the kids were fine. Still locked in the basement.
Hilarious! Reminds me of one of my husband's aunts who years ago sent out what our son calls "family spam" about a beautiful full moon they had in Oregon and wondered if anyone else had seen it? 😂😂My husband said, (but didn't reply), "No, we were visiting Mars last night."
I visited Martinique back in my early college days, a guest of a family that had a banana and pineapple plantation. The people who hosted me had a similar observation. A former visitor had said, “Oh, you have a moon here, too!”
People and geography are funny.
Fabulous photo, Gato. ‘Minds me of my windsurfing days—which began in Martinique when I was a 19-year old adventurer.
We are all under the same heavenly expanse.
There is, in fact, a brotherhood of man. We are blessed. Drink the beauty of Creation. Share it.
My mother is also a birding mom. I went on many spring and fall bird counts with serious birders. Never forget the time we were counting shorebirds, ducks and wading birds in a SW La marsh and a peregrine came on the scene—they were very rare in those days—every bird in a half square mile flew in panic. It was quite a scene. Thousand on thousands took flight.
That must have been quite the spectacle, especially because we have supposedly lost 1/3 of the birding population. It's a hobby that never gets old because there is always something else to learn and always something new to experience.
Wow, who knows stuff like this?! Alls I knows is zat when we were in Cancun, it was all I could do to stand up in the waves 10 feet from the shore. Great memories. Sun, gentle breeze, margaritas, aqua blue ocean, gulls, shore birds, margaritas, a Grisham novel, did I mention margaritas? Hahahaha!
Of course it's the “exact same moon”! Where on earth it is viewed from makes no noticeable difference, because no two places on earth are far enough away from each other relative to the distance between the earth and the moon! The only visible difference is in its apparent color, which mostly depends on how high or low in the sky it is. Close to the horizon it looks a dull orange-red colour, at slightly higher elevations it looks a brighter orange, higher still it looks yellowish, and at more than a certain angle above the horizon it looks the familiar bright white “color”. This is for the same reason that a low sun is yellow, orange, or red looking: the light is passing through more of the earth's atmosphere, allowing the wavelengths that the atmosphere absorbs more (shorter-wavelength, bluer colors) to be absorbed to a relatively greater extent than the wavelengths that are less absorbed (longer-wavelength, redder colors). (And if the moon looks bigger when it's close to the horizon it's purely an optical illusion, not an atmospheric effect.)
That is beautiful! I live 5 minutes from the beach here in Australia and, I swear, it's the only thing that's kept me sane the past year as this country has descended into madness.
me too. i'm a five minute walk from my cape cod beach- i can see it from the second floor. i'm at the beach a lot- swimming in the summer and walking the beach in winter. i was there today- damn cold and windy and the winter surf was up. not the gorgeous summer scene like gato's photo, but cold winter beaches are beautiful and comforting in their own way .
What is this nonsense, citizen? I assure you our fear-mongering overlords would not be pleased. Don't you realize millions of people are dying from the attacks of an imaginary virus? Could you insert some computer-generated coronavirus images on the crests of the waves and make it look like they are coming in to invade the country? If not I will need to report this to the pharma/gov alliance security team. This may result in the removal of this picture and the lowering of your social credit score.
What do you mean, Philosopher!? Can't you SEE the virus gato inserted? It's there, hiding in plain sight! It's a new variant, with retractable spikes! It's the fuulmuun variant! Alert the vax factories and tell them to STOP working on the alpha vax IMMEDIATELY and begin on the beta one instead. 😱🌕🐈⬛
This picture is beautiful. So beautiful, I am seriously crying. You can share these every day. I will just pretend I do not live in Virginia, 35 miles west of the cesspool.
Wish I could see it. I was planning on flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow, but cancelled. I would have tolerated the on-the-ground nonsense, but I refused to play the testing game in the middle of a hysteria wave. Maybe next year, unless there's something else Puerto Rico's leaders want to go crazy about. BTW, the Covid charts comparing Florida to Puerto Rico will get very interesting in the next few days! I'm sure they will show that every insane rule PR adopted got them absolutely nothing.
Thank you for your sacrifice Dave! I have put this traveling off as well because testing is just as bad as any other part of this agenda. It will never stop. There will always be something we have to get tested for to get "permission" to participate. I just hope more people start realizing this before it's too late. Thanks again!
No sacrifice on my part. It was a leisure trip, so pure self-interest. I'm only willing to endure so much hassle to go on vacation. Puerto Rico went past my breaking point. FWIW, I noticed that hotel rates and car rental prices have fallen on the island this week, so I'm sure I'm not alone. I was actually willing to trade the on-the-ground-foolishness for lower crowds (like the missing cruise passengers), but when they announced mandatory testing of healthy travellers during a testing shortage, that was my breaking point.
Have also read that most hotels and even airB&Bs are requiring proof of vax. I also worry about ending up sick or injured and God-forbid having to step into a hospital where staff is discriminating against us purebloods. No thanks! I gave birth to both my kids in San Juan hospitals (Auxilio Mutuo, Ashford Presbyterian) and trust me, I wouldn't want to be on their bad side.
BTW, think about the insanity of this. An island nation dependent on tourism is experiencing an outbreak of a mild respiratory virus variant. Healthy people still want to come to the island. You make it difficult because maybe, somehow, one of them will bring an additional case of this variant to your island. You then crash your economy to prevent this "tragedy" from happening. Brilliant.
We're in a tourist area in the South Island of NZ currently. The local businesses are bleeding. 2 weeks into January (schools don't go back until end of month) and they're saying the summer season is over.
by then it will be too late to save the thousands of school kids getting the clotshots. I'm heartbroken for my Island and its people. Especially, the younger generations.
flashback: at the very beginning of COVID mania the police in Malibu CA arrested a guy for surfing because some PhD at some CA U said that you could catch COVID from salt spray...
Make sure you're wearing a mask so you can't breathe that dangerous ocean air and keep people safe. California arresting a paddleboarder in the early days was one of the most COVID-1984 moments.
We are all double vaxxed as a requirement and we had rapid antigen tests two days before arriving in Miami and then another rapid antigen test before being allowed on board.
You could come out to Vancouver Island and see a beach. Bring your wetsuit if you want to play. Visited Victoria this morning, bad Karenville! North Island colder but less uptight.
You may have to drive yourself or join the weekend trucker's protest if you can't fly.
You had me laughing about Victoria and all the Karen's. So true. My daughter and sister live in Saanich next door to Victoria and they would agree. The North end of the Island is my favorite place on the Island. Have taken 100's of photos of amazing sunsets there. Been on whale tours in Broughton Archipelago and a grizzly bear tour up the Knight Inlet.
And unfortunately downtown Victoria has a huge homeless situation which has only become worse with covid. Crime rate has climbed as well. I basically avoided downtown Victoria when we there last summer. And the people in Victoria drive like snails which can be maddening at times.
I am very fortunate living in British Columbia because I can at least travel in our trailer to Vancouver Island. We're booked for 4 months there starting in May. Five of those weeks will be at our favorite remote campground with the most amazing view of the Broughton Archipelago. Pure bliss. Without a vaccine passport this is my salvation.
I know. I lived in Alberta for nearly 2 years and really missed the ocean and lakes. However I thought the people in Alberta were really nice. Down to earth, friendly and very dog friendly. Enjoy your time at the lake in Saskatchewan.
This Covid hysteria has been a strange period where a large part of the country (and the world) essentially went mad. But the hysteria is coming to an end. And we can make gradual progress as long as we remain a free society.
Nature is beautiful. Life is beautiful. It’s only the leftist politicians and public health bureaucrats who are ugly.
We live near the beach. During both pandemic summers I have felt most normal on or near the beach. Life was most normal there. And while lounging in my beach chair watching the fireworks, surrounded by tons of (maskless) happy people with their family and friends, I’d think “eat your heart out Governor Murphy” lol
I'll trade you sleet for -14C, 60cm of snow, and the Russians lurking about due to the trouble in the Ukraine.
Oh, and in the capital they have decided on feminist snowplowing. Meaning walkways and bikelanes get plowed first. Police, firemen and ambulances have to wait their turn. No, I'm not joking.
According to the editorial by the University of Chicago editorial board, the university gave a pass on the vax to its science profs and the docs in their university hospital. They said it was because they didn't want all their docs to quit.
I have a feeling the Ph.Ds who have taken the clot shot are education majors.
Plenty of my fellow Ph.D. psychologists have taken the shot. I think they have forgotten the statistics course they had to take. People who really understand math may be more likely to calculate the odds of dying from Covid, and thus avoid the jab.
You & me both. (Back below zero with blistering winds here in Maine. brrrrrr 😳. Had to bring 1 of my angora bunnies in from garage the other day. He sloshed some water on his face. Not only had icicles hanging fron his cheek, his eyelashes were encased in ice, his left eye frozen shut.)
Thank you. Figgy Newton is fine, lol. The ice melted & his eye opened uninjured. A couple hours to air dry, & by lunchtime he was back to the garage with his siblings.
Yep, there are lots of things worth fighting for and not living in fear from. Those who still can't live by now will never understand and should be left behind.
I know this is not where I am, because they're still doing it in my town, only in wetsuits because it's brrrr here. You are in beautiful Puerto Rico, yes?
Remembering the days of wave riding in La Pared In Luquillo and that special spot just east of there at LaSelva. I paddled out there with my 3 young sons and will never forget it. Just beautiful.
I've been trying to guess since your Thanksgiving picture. My wife says it's the Isla Verde/Carolina stretch. Is she hot, warm, or cold? (Well, she's Puerto Rican, so of course "hot", but you know what I mean.)
I think the waves are too rough for Isla Verde/Carolina; I've seen waves like that, plus the outer breakers, more in the Condado area.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou...a million times thankyou.
I love to moon gaze and and I love the ocean. But I just finished clearing a mini mountain of snow from the end of my driveway that the snowplow piled on last night! Greetings from snowy Canada! Did I mention that my snow blower sort of died yesterday? But I love the snow too so it's all good.
Not only to arrive and leave the airport but you'll be carded to go into restaurants. Also, keep in mind that hotels and even Air B&Bs are required to see your vax passport. And pray that you won't need dentist or ER because the discrimination is ugly. (3 sisters, and lifelong friends still live on the Island).
You had to have photo shopped the moon. Cuz I saw that EXACT SAME moon in Colorado last night. Can't be in two places at once. Nice try tho.
Thank you, @Mark S Griffith, for defending "science"!
It is a lovely picture, though...
Damn straight!!! Can't let shit like this go, even if I like this particular cat. Plus, I did like Andres Galarraga.
El Gato Grande
Si. He once hit four homers in four straight at bats, I think. He was so BIG but so nimble and quick. And the bat speed. OMG!! The Blake Street Bombers at Coors Field.
I had season ticket right off the field. The first year at Mile High made great memories of Eric Young's first at bat and Gallaraga's batting championship.
I saw him many years later in Florida at a golf tournament and told him thanks for the great memories.
We had front row seats right over the wall between the two bull pens. Great seats for only $10/seat. We could get all 7 of us into Coors as our kids were 8 down to new born. Rockies didn't care cuz every game was a sellout.
Best memory of the Blake Street Bombers. It was NHL playoff time and the Av's were playing on the road. We arrived to the baseball game about 10 minutes late and were walking up Blake when the skies OPENED UP and it poured for at least an hour.
We ducked into an empty restaurant called Stars. Within a few minutes the placed filled up totally with folks waiting out the rain delay. We even shared our booth with another couple (no kids that night). We had a meal and when the game resumed at like 9pm we went back to an empty, and I mean like only 200 people, Coors Field.
They let us go down and sit right where the on deck circle was. All the people at the game were sitting in the 2 or 3 sections behind home plate.
We got to see, Walker, Vinnie, Big Cat, Dante and Ellis up close and personal.
We couldn't believe how HUGE they were!!! From center field they looked big, but up that close they were like GIANTS!!
Good times. Haven't been to a game in years. They have killed pro sports with politics.
Even though we were gone a lot longer than we had expected, the kids were fine. Still locked in the basement.
Hilarious! Reminds me of one of my husband's aunts who years ago sent out what our son calls "family spam" about a beautiful full moon they had in Oregon and wondered if anyone else had seen it? 😂😂My husband said, (but didn't reply), "No, we were visiting Mars last night."
I visited Martinique back in my early college days, a guest of a family that had a banana and pineapple plantation. The people who hosted me had a similar observation. A former visitor had said, “Oh, you have a moon here, too!”
People and geography are funny.
Fabulous photo, Gato. ‘Minds me of my windsurfing days—which began in Martinique when I was a 19-year old adventurer.
We are all under the same heavenly expanse.
There is, in fact, a brotherhood of man. We are blessed. Drink the beauty of Creation. Share it.
Amen!
My mother is also a birding mom. I went on many spring and fall bird counts with serious birders. Never forget the time we were counting shorebirds, ducks and wading birds in a SW La marsh and a peregrine came on the scene—they were very rare in those days—every bird in a half square mile flew in panic. It was quite a scene. Thousand on thousands took flight.
That must have been quite the spectacle, especially because we have supposedly lost 1/3 of the birding population. It's a hobby that never gets old because there is always something else to learn and always something new to experience.
And it keeps you in tune with the natural world, which is good for the soul, imho.
Sounds just beautiful! I'm just a casual birder and enjoy them all.
Note a couple of facts: The surfer is not wearing a wet suit top and the waves are breaking on an outer reef. Conclusion: Not in the continental US.
I expect it’s PR as, if I understand correctly, that’s where señor gato malo is domiciled.
Yes... it's PR. Maybe North shore, close to San Juan. Or further West... in Isabella or even Rincon ? Come on down. The water's fine ! (Water, 80º)
last time i surfed in san francisco it was a comfortable 50º :)
“Coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco” Samuel Clemons
Oh yes. We flew into SF for our honeymoon in Carmel. (It was in the 90s when we left the Midwest.) Got into the rental car and turned on the heat!!
How many hypodermic needles did run across? ; )
okay. whatever it is, I am sitting here with my mouth slightly hanging open, head tilted. whimpering 🥲
def not Montauk.
Could have been Florida. Monster Hole @ Sebastian Inlet has an out break. Of course there are monsters in the hole so...
Gato Malo does visit there from time to time. But it is PR.
Wow, who knows stuff like this?! Alls I knows is zat when we were in Cancun, it was all I could do to stand up in the waves 10 feet from the shore. Great memories. Sun, gentle breeze, margaritas, aqua blue ocean, gulls, shore birds, margaritas, a Grisham novel, did I mention margaritas? Hahahaha!
I replied to the wrong comment above:
Your comment made me think of this jangly Tom Waits song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv8IM_-Bam0
Thanks, Richard. I hadn't listened to him in way too long a time.
Of course it's the “exact same moon”! Where on earth it is viewed from makes no noticeable difference, because no two places on earth are far enough away from each other relative to the distance between the earth and the moon! The only visible difference is in its apparent color, which mostly depends on how high or low in the sky it is. Close to the horizon it looks a dull orange-red colour, at slightly higher elevations it looks a brighter orange, higher still it looks yellowish, and at more than a certain angle above the horizon it looks the familiar bright white “color”. This is for the same reason that a low sun is yellow, orange, or red looking: the light is passing through more of the earth's atmosphere, allowing the wavelengths that the atmosphere absorbs more (shorter-wavelength, bluer colors) to be absorbed to a relatively greater extent than the wavelengths that are less absorbed (longer-wavelength, redder colors). (And if the moon looks bigger when it's close to the horizon it's purely an optical illusion, not an atmospheric effect.)
Haha!
That is beautiful! I live 5 minutes from the beach here in Australia and, I swear, it's the only thing that's kept me sane the past year as this country has descended into madness.
me too. i'm a five minute walk from my cape cod beach- i can see it from the second floor. i'm at the beach a lot- swimming in the summer and walking the beach in winter. i was there today- damn cold and windy and the winter surf was up. not the gorgeous summer scene like gato's photo, but cold winter beaches are beautiful and comforting in their own way .
as you say, nature keeps us sane
Love the beach in winter (although our winters are much milder than yours!) :-)
We're an 8 minute walk from the Pacific ourselves. Dunedin is so underrated in this jurisdiction.
Would love to visit but not while Cruella de Vil is running the show!
She needs to take a few (Chris Hipkins, Grant Robertson) with her when she self implodes else it will continue at the same level.
Realistically all except for one MP needs to go in this country.
What is this nonsense, citizen? I assure you our fear-mongering overlords would not be pleased. Don't you realize millions of people are dying from the attacks of an imaginary virus? Could you insert some computer-generated coronavirus images on the crests of the waves and make it look like they are coming in to invade the country? If not I will need to report this to the pharma/gov alliance security team. This may result in the removal of this picture and the lowering of your social credit score.
What do you mean, Philosopher!? Can't you SEE the virus gato inserted? It's there, hiding in plain sight! It's a new variant, with retractable spikes! It's the fuulmuun variant! Alert the vax factories and tell them to STOP working on the alpha vax IMMEDIATELY and begin on the beta one instead. 😱🌕🐈⬛
Considering how leaky the vaccines are, the fullmuun variant would likely be made of Swiss cheese.
Lol
Yes !
God is still in control
This picture is beautiful. So beautiful, I am seriously crying. You can share these every day. I will just pretend I do not live in Virginia, 35 miles west of the cesspool.
60 miles west of the District of Criminals for me. The metastasis thins out a bit this far out.
No surf of course.
I hear the Commonwealth of VA is changing, no?
we shall see. The left fights dirty. They are already having fits.
I wish you the best. Would like to enjoy VA again. so much beauty in one state, including the people
Very dirty, Most people have no idea how low they can go.
Wish I could see it. I was planning on flying to Puerto Rico tomorrow, but cancelled. I would have tolerated the on-the-ground nonsense, but I refused to play the testing game in the middle of a hysteria wave. Maybe next year, unless there's something else Puerto Rico's leaders want to go crazy about. BTW, the Covid charts comparing Florida to Puerto Rico will get very interesting in the next few days! I'm sure they will show that every insane rule PR adopted got them absolutely nothing.
Thank you for your sacrifice Dave! I have put this traveling off as well because testing is just as bad as any other part of this agenda. It will never stop. There will always be something we have to get tested for to get "permission" to participate. I just hope more people start realizing this before it's too late. Thanks again!
No sacrifice on my part. It was a leisure trip, so pure self-interest. I'm only willing to endure so much hassle to go on vacation. Puerto Rico went past my breaking point. FWIW, I noticed that hotel rates and car rental prices have fallen on the island this week, so I'm sure I'm not alone. I was actually willing to trade the on-the-ground-foolishness for lower crowds (like the missing cruise passengers), but when they announced mandatory testing of healthy travellers during a testing shortage, that was my breaking point.
Have also read that most hotels and even airB&Bs are requiring proof of vax. I also worry about ending up sick or injured and God-forbid having to step into a hospital where staff is discriminating against us purebloods. No thanks! I gave birth to both my kids in San Juan hospitals (Auxilio Mutuo, Ashford Presbyterian) and trust me, I wouldn't want to be on their bad side.
BTW, think about the insanity of this. An island nation dependent on tourism is experiencing an outbreak of a mild respiratory virus variant. Healthy people still want to come to the island. You make it difficult because maybe, somehow, one of them will bring an additional case of this variant to your island. You then crash your economy to prevent this "tragedy" from happening. Brilliant.
We're in a tourist area in the South Island of NZ currently. The local businesses are bleeding. 2 weeks into January (schools don't go back until end of month) and they're saying the summer season is over.
:-(
Some of them are doing $0 days.
If you boycott, they may loosen the bonds.
have you seen the fine print on joe’s ‘free’ test kits?
by then it will be too late to save the thousands of school kids getting the clotshots. I'm heartbroken for my Island and its people. Especially, the younger generations.
flashback: at the very beginning of COVID mania the police in Malibu CA arrested a guy for surfing because some PhD at some CA U said that you could catch COVID from salt spray...
...plankton vector?
Thanks for the laughs
Your comment made me think of the jangly Tom Waits song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv8IM_-Bam0
Make sure you're wearing a mask so you can't breathe that dangerous ocean air and keep people safe. California arresting a paddleboarder in the early days was one of the most COVID-1984 moments.
wait. what?!
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F024fa312-a781-4683-bd29-b7a7b1b6fa8f_1816x424.png
I'm on a cruise. Several days ago Puerto Rico wouldn't let us dock. Since then, St. Lucia, Dominica, St. Kitts/Nevis have refused us. 🤣
You're welcome in Pflugerville! 4 hour inland, might be Issue
Truly, any of you are. You come through, 512 284 6535. Cup of coffee
I live in Texas, no solidarity cuz no oppression.
You reminded me of that song about Pflugerville! I lived in Austin many years ago.
Thanks for the reminder!
God bless! I have been spending huge amounts of time at Lake Georgetown.... dog, nature, no internet thus no bill gates ! peace
why? Vax or you all have an Omicold?
We are all double vaxxed as a requirement and we had rapid antigen tests two days before arriving in Miami and then another rapid antigen test before being allowed on board.
it's ridiculous. who is running this shit show?
🙅🏽♀️Gubmint?
ha! perfect!
BOOTS... You're going places hilarious 😂
I am jealous. For real
I guess they are intent on destroying their own economies. No plague on this ship!
stupid politicians.
Quislings
Excellent reminder that life is still beautiful. Thank you Gato!
No mask on surfer. Dead in two weeks. Unless vaccinated. Then alive forever. (And protects against shark bites.)
2 week vacation in Miami happening next month. Can’t wait to have my own beach view soon!
Likewise. I'm taking my 19 y.o. to South Beach/MIA for a brief escape from Oregon tyranny. Leaving in 11 days!! ;-)
Nice! See ya in Freedomland, brother!
Sister... LOL
HA! My bad! 😜
LOL
Oh and may I add, how I hope I can see a beach again someday (trapped and unable to leave my country).
sometimes I feel like the entire world has been taken over by nazis. This is sick.
You could come out to Vancouver Island and see a beach. Bring your wetsuit if you want to play. Visited Victoria this morning, bad Karenville! North Island colder but less uptight.
You may have to drive yourself or join the weekend trucker's protest if you can't fly.
You had me laughing about Victoria and all the Karen's. So true. My daughter and sister live in Saanich next door to Victoria and they would agree. The North end of the Island is my favorite place on the Island. Have taken 100's of photos of amazing sunsets there. Been on whale tours in Broughton Archipelago and a grizzly bear tour up the Knight Inlet.
Oh wow, I think I have to add this to the summer vacation plans! North Island it is. Love the Karen comment. Good to know, will stay well clear!
And unfortunately downtown Victoria has a huge homeless situation which has only become worse with covid. Crime rate has climbed as well. I basically avoided downtown Victoria when we there last summer. And the people in Victoria drive like snails which can be maddening at times.
I am very fortunate living in British Columbia because I can at least travel in our trailer to Vancouver Island. We're booked for 4 months there starting in May. Five of those weeks will be at our favorite remote campground with the most amazing view of the Broughton Archipelago. Pure bliss. Without a vaccine passport this is my salvation.
Oh that sounds like heaven! No beaches in Alberta :(. But I do plan to enjoy a Saskatchewan lake this summer.
I know. I lived in Alberta for nearly 2 years and really missed the ocean and lakes. However I thought the people in Alberta were really nice. Down to earth, friendly and very dog friendly. Enjoy your time at the lake in Saskatchewan.
The Ferry?
Yes the ferry. It's considered an essential service.
This Covid hysteria has been a strange period where a large part of the country (and the world) essentially went mad. But the hysteria is coming to an end. And we can make gradual progress as long as we remain a free society.
Nature is beautiful. Life is beautiful. It’s only the leftist politicians and public health bureaucrats who are ugly.
and do not forget their faithful followers and acolytes
Yup—we can’t mess up everything. God’s still in control. Nice photo!
Except that guy gets eaten by a great white in the next frame.
LOL
We live near the beach. During both pandemic summers I have felt most normal on or near the beach. Life was most normal there. And while lounging in my beach chair watching the fireworks, surrounded by tons of (maskless) happy people with their family and friends, I’d think “eat your heart out Governor Murphy” lol
Those people in the water are not wearing masks. Are they vaccinated? One would hope!
Beautiful moon. Beautiful colors on sky and sea. Thanks.
Indeed. That is gorgeous.
Are you sure that's not a tidal wave from the underwater eruption? 🤣🤣🤣
Nice, here in Hochul's authoritarian NY, we had sleet. :/
she's just proposed an immense budget. She so sux
I'll trade you sleet for -14C, 60cm of snow, and the Russians lurking about due to the trouble in the Ukraine.
Oh, and in the capital they have decided on feminist snowplowing. Meaning walkways and bikelanes get plowed first. Police, firemen and ambulances have to wait their turn. No, I'm not joking.
Here's some good news in a very ironic way......do OC Health workers know something most people don't know????.....https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/orange-county-health-director-dr-raul-pino-placed-on-administrative-leave/ar-AASUz9D?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&fbclid=IwAR0laaSfa65aXTATPko0uaxlWe5AVdPT1MW6JFw2jxfWgmZFD9gJU2VaYC0
I have heard that nurses have the lowest rate of vaccination of any profession. They see who comes into the ER with vax injuries!
Also people with Ph.D.'s supposedly have the lowest rate of any education group.
According to the editorial by the University of Chicago editorial board, the university gave a pass on the vax to its science profs and the docs in their university hospital. They said it was because they didn't want all their docs to quit.
I have a feeling the Ph.Ds who have taken the clot shot are education majors.
Plenty of my fellow Ph.D. psychologists have taken the shot. I think they have forgotten the statistics course they had to take. People who really understand math may be more likely to calculate the odds of dying from Covid, and thus avoid the jab.
Truly. Get off internet, even for a time, and become a monk in nature. Me, Georgetown lake, with my wolf (dog)
sounds lovely.
You know, I'm going to do that. Right now, There is a small mountain near where I am today. I'm going to walk and try not to slide off. Thank you.
btw, is it a half wolf or just a very cool dog?
They're bobcats and pumas???? Don't believe pumas.
I'm gonna find them waaaay back there. And tell them I have dominion over them.
Have fun. I will. remember, no human has dominion over a cat. They're like the Irish, they just don't accept it.
I was volunteering for zoo. I said, when do I get to work with lions and bears...
She gave me look I always get. She said, volunteers NEVER work with big cats and bears.
58 going on 8
Miss fb, 😃 at my own stuff. Easily amused. Actually I believe I should be censored.
I definitely picked the wrong place to live.
You & me both. (Back below zero with blistering winds here in Maine. brrrrrr 😳. Had to bring 1 of my angora bunnies in from garage the other day. He sloshed some water on his face. Not only had icicles hanging fron his cheek, his eyelashes were encased in ice, his left eye frozen shut.)
Ouch. That sounds hard. Cold here in NYC but the covidians are worse than the cold, I would say. Good luck to your bunny.
Thank you. Figgy Newton is fine, lol. The ice melted & his eye opened uninjured. A couple hours to air dry, & by lunchtime he was back to the garage with his siblings.
By the way, I got covid and I am pretty disappointed at the moment. I am thinking about complaining to the manufacturer.
I had to do a close up to check and make sure that was not a cat surfer! Lol
It's good to see the good things, Gato.
Yep, there are lots of things worth fighting for and not living in fear from. Those who still can't live by now will never understand and should be left behind.
I haven't been "down the Shore" in a year and half. That's Philly for "to the beach", btw.
I miss it. A lot.
This is lovely.
Thank you!
I know this is not where I am, because they're still doing it in my town, only in wetsuits because it's brrrr here. You are in beautiful Puerto Rico, yes?
El Gato….
Remembering the days of wave riding in La Pared In Luquillo and that special spot just east of there at LaSelva. I paddled out there with my 3 young sons and will never forget it. Just beautiful.
Well, we know you're in the northern hemisphere... :)
😍
Beautiful!
Fantastic!
Thank you Gato
Very, very pretty. This planet sure is situated on prime real estate, innit?
I slept on the beach last night too! And got pestered by mosquitoes.
Narrator: “And then the tsunami hit…”
Perfection.
The surfer doesn’t have his mask on. 😷- what is this world coming to?
Well deserved!!!
Unbelievable! Stunning.
They crashed a rocket into the Moon filled with the Pfizer vaxx... and the Moon turned orange !
I've been trying to guess since your Thanksgiving picture. My wife says it's the Isla Verde/Carolina stretch. Is she hot, warm, or cold? (Well, she's Puerto Rican, so of course "hot", but you know what I mean.)
I think the waves are too rough for Isla Verde/Carolina; I've seen waves like that, plus the outer breakers, more in the Condado area.
My husband (Carolina) and I (Bayamon) both agree with you. Definitely NOT the Caribbean coast.
Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou...a million times thankyou.
I love to moon gaze and and I love the ocean. But I just finished clearing a mini mountain of snow from the end of my driveway that the snowplow piled on last night! Greetings from snowy Canada! Did I mention that my snow blower sort of died yesterday? But I love the snow too so it's all good.
beautiful
Thank you. Saw the same moon rise over our neighbor's farm.
How much of a PITA is it for a pure-blood to gain entry to PR right now? I assume the nasal rape kit in lieu of papers? Or is it impossible?
You're better off going to the Dominican Republic.
Not only to arrive and leave the airport but you'll be carded to go into restaurants. Also, keep in mind that hotels and even Air B&Bs are required to see your vax passport. And pray that you won't need dentist or ER because the discrimination is ugly. (3 sisters, and lifelong friends still live on the Island).