Friday, February 19, 2016

 Today we started painting the bathroom.  The color is great!  I thought it would take a short time but we will get there.  It was a good day to do it as the wind was blowing today.

Boat parts arrived on the plane again today.  Richard is going to try to fix it himself before flying the mechanic over from Grand.

It is now time to beat Richard in a game of cards!  Ha!  

Thursday, February 18, 2016

I woke up today and I am still here at Little Cayman and loving every minute of it!  It was a beautiful day of sunshine and warm temperatures again.

We are still eating our meals outside on the porch.  I have a dishpan of fresh water there and the tiny little yellow bananaquit birds have decided to use it as a place to drink and take a bath!  They are just adorable!  Tonight while we were eating dinner, one flew in.  They are not shy of us at all.  The little guy proceeded to get a several drinks.  He loved it so much, he decided to take a luxurious bath!  This water is 3 to 4 inches deep at least!  He lounged around in it and sometimes would splash up a storm!  He would fly away for a minute and come right back and do it all again!  One cannot pay for this kind of dinner entertainment!  Tomorrow I will empty this water onto one of our young start up coconut trees and fill it again.

Last night we went to Wet Your Whistle at SCC.  We had a nice time there visiting with friends.  Afterwards, we went to Beach Resort for dinner.  They had Trivia Night.  There was a lot of people there and it was tons of fun!  I enjoyed not cooking dinner.  Tonight when I made our food, it was so much easier after having a night off.    

We worked on our beach sand today again.  It is really looking good!

Richard is still trying to get the boat running.  Progress is being made but there is additional trouble.
It turns out this motor is a high performance motor and requires special care.  He is getting more parts in and we will have a maintenance man fly here from Grand to help with it.  By the time we leave island this motor will be purring like a kitten!  I think we need to rename this boat.  It will be called $$$ Made of Money$$$!

Tuesday, February 16, 2016

We had beautiful weather today in paradise.  I did my work out and tried to stay outside all day.  The water felt especially great in the hot sunshine!  In the afternoon while on my floaty I noticed the sand was disturbed beneath me and I looked over and there was a stingray.  He was just splashing along with me enjoying the day.

Richard is still waiting on his boat.  This saga has turned into a nightmare!  The poor guy!  It took days for the prop to arrive as Cayman Airways Cargo on Grand just left it sit there and kept saying they sent it over!  It finally arrived but was missing parts.  Today the parts arrived but are the incorrect ones.   It has been really great fishing too and he is missing out.

When the guys come in from fishing, they clean the fish at Brian's dock.  There are sharks and tarpon that swim up to eat the waste thrown into the water.  There is also a big heron that sits on the dock when they arrive and waits for the guys to throw it some fish.  He has gotten so used to the guys.  They have named him Big Bird!

Here is a shot of Big Bird waiting at Brians dock.

We think Big Bird is looking like he is older.  

I was in a beach chair after swimming.  

Trying to dry off after a swim. I was reading my book!  Where is my rum punch?

Here are the Frigates coming in to grab some fish the guys throw into the air.

Sunday, February 14, 2016

Happy Valentines Day!  I'm celebrating in paradise!  We have had a busy, wonderful weekend.  Yesterday, Richard went with the guys and tried to get a lobster.  No luck but we still had a special dinner with special friends.

Yesterday I washed all the white painted porch railings on the house.  They were getting mildew on and it just didn't look good.  I used bleach water and it now looks just like fresh paint!  I am going to investigate for better paint.  Next year I will repaint all the porch railings again.

We picked out a pretty color to paint the new bathroom so this week I may get started on that.  It's about time!  We just have had it white since they built it.

Today we drove to the north side to look at the huge waves crashing in.  It was so beautiful.  We had a high wind today and it made for rough seas.  We could have gone surfing over there today!  I am loving this beautiful blue sky and nice warm temperatures.  I love skipping winter!

Friday, February 12, 2016

I am sitting here eating a dish of chocolate ice cream!  Earlier at lunch I had potato chips!  I never eat like this at home.  This environment makes me do crazy things!  I love it!

Today was a lazy day.  I did a load of laundry and hanging it outside is just like a clothes dryer here.  The wind was blowing at a good clip and the sun was heating up the clothes.  You could not tell they were line dried!

The grocery store was out of milk and eggs and many other things today.  The barge has not come in as the sea has been rough.  Luckily, I plan ahead.  Tonight I grilled and we ate on the porch and relaxed.  How lucky am I!!

This is a short post.  We worked on the boat today.  Progress is being made but still no fishing.  Poor Richard!

Thursday, February 11, 2016

Today was another great day here on Little Cayman island.  The wind was up so I did yard upkeep and enjoyed every minute of it.  Who can complain while working on a beach in the Caribbean!  I did some serious relaxing also.

Richard spent some time today investigating how to repair his boat motor.  We keep hoping it will be something that is not so expensive.  He finally decided to play cribbage with me again and I won!!  He is just not having good luck lately!  First the boat and now loses at cribbage!  It is kind of fun to win, I must say!

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Today was the day of the boat!  The parts to fix the hydraulics in the boat motor arrived early this morning and Richard got right to work.  I had barely settled onto my beach chair when he arrived home and needed help getting the boat in the water. We headed right there and hauled it to the public dock.  It was half way into the water when I said better check if it starts!  Sure enough the batteries were dead!  All the working on everything had drained them.  So, out came the boat!  What a bummer!  We have a trickle charger but that would take all day.  Luckily Mark had a charger but we had to get the batteries out and charge them.  So we went home and ate lunch while the batteries charged.

After lunch we finally went back and proceeded to put the boat in.  The tide was out but conditions were good.  He backed the boat down and suddenly I noticed how slick the ramp was and sure enough the truck was sliding to the water!!!  I yelled for him to stop and he tried to go forward but continued to slide back.   I was supposed to drive the truck out once the boat was in but that was not going to happen!

I ran for help!  After a few tries, I found the District Officer at his home!  Talk about luck!  He brought his truck and a rope and tied it to our truck.  Richard got the boat in so there was less weight.  Mr. Scott pulled our truck out and we were finally in the water.  What an adventure!  There is just so much moss or whatever with the salty waves crashing on the ramp.  I guess this happens to people here and some have lost vehicles!  Good grief!

Richard motored off and I proceeded to take the truck home.  I wanted to get there and take a photo as he pulled up to the dock at home.  He didn't show up and it just got later and later!  Turns out the motor had more problems.  It worked great at first but all of a sudden died.  He almost got thrown into the breakers!  He finally managed to get it slowly running and took hours to get here.

Tomorrow we will take it back out of the water and try to spend more money to fix it.  In the meantime there are fish out there waiting to be caught!  I may try taking a pole and fishing from the dock where we put in.  There were some nice fish there and it wouldn't cost a fortune!

We went to Wet Your Whistle tonight.  It was great to get away and visit friends and have a drink!  What a day!  At least it is a warm and sunny and beautiful place to have boat trouble!