St. Augustine in photos - post 2

I wanted to share a few more of my St. Augustine photos with you:

As you can tell, I have this thing about taking lots of pictures of flowers.... lol!

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Everyday Nothingness

I am a much happier commuter these days! Last week a new bus route started from my part of the city into downtown...I get from the commuter lot to my office in about 30-40 min as compared to the 45-60 min that it used to take me. Now I get dropped off right in front of my office building and don't have to ride the train anymore! Woot!

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I got a new blackberry, finally!!! Mine's been on the verge of crapping out for about a year now. I'm in lurve with my new Curve! ;-) T-Mobile...you're my hero...kinda...the crazy salesperson forgot to activate my enterprise email feature...WTF???

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I finally created my Twitter account today...I figured since I have my new mac-daddy blackberry that's more user-friendly I can now keep up with the world. I'm LauraBSquared if you'd like to follow me...I'm boring...I'll go ahead and let you know that right now. :-D

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Last night Morey finally started showing the real signs of intestinal distress...he does this every time he goes to the kennel. He's sensitive that way and always comes back with tummy problems. Well, last night he threw up all over the rug in the living room right before our small group arrives. Then, while we were in the middle of talking, he goes and throws up all over the dining room rug - I have to walk away to clean that up. THEN while I'm talking and making a point, he walks into the sunroom and hunkers down and proceeds to take a big old smelly poop in the middle of the sunroom floor - I have to stop talking and go clean it up. It stinks too...bad...we have to take out the garbage and spray air freshener ALL IN THE MIDDLE OF SMALL GROUP! Ugh....

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I wish I was back on the beach....working for a living sucks. I need to find a job where I'll get paid to vacation.

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Later!

Wordless Wednesday - River Street, Savannah, GA

I had to take this pic because of the awesome "Save the Ta-Tas" flag!

St. Augustine in pictures - day 1

Shooter and I took an Eco-Tour of St. Augustine while we were there and I got some amazing pictures due to our being out in the water. Here are a few....







Just thought this was kinda neat.

St. Augustine is currently a free port - but the local government is looking to try to change that. Basically anyone can come in and anchor their boat in the "bay" at no charge. I didn't get any pictures of them, but the south side of the "bay" is full of discarded boats. We even saw one sailboat that had been run ashore and left there. On the north side of the "bay" are the permanent "residents" of St. Augustine's boat village.

This is one of the many dolphins we encountered while in St. Augustine and Crescent Beach. Our Eco-Tour guide is working on getting grant money to track the migration of the dolphins in that area - to see where they go during the winter season. I told him I'd definitely volunteer to go with him to the Bahamas and take photographs for him. ;-)

We came up on this sand bar and found these four adolescent brown pelicans and a host of other sea birds. Zach, our tour guide, said that you know they're adolescents because their heads are still brown and fuzzy.

There is this huge bronze cross erected in St. Augustine. We passed by these fishermen and I thought it was a poignant picture.

This is a picture of the Castillo de San Marcos. Being in the "bay", which isn't really a bay, offered a great perspective on taking pictures of downtown.

Here's a better shot of downtown and the shops.

Happy Tails

Well, after calling around to many places last night and this morning, we finally found a place that would take Wallace (aka Braveheart), George (aka Curious George) and Thomas (aka Bommas). Turns out that all three of the kiddos were boys....so my instinct at naming them was right on.

We intially went to the Atlanta Humane Society and they told us there were three issues with them taking the kids - 1) they're too young and couldn't handle being neutered, if they kept them until they were old enough they'd likely get some infection and probably die; 2) they didn't weigh enough; 3) the shelter was full. Nice of them to get our hopes up.

Luckily Di knows some wonderful ladies at a PetsMart from the Georgia Humane Society and they love cats. They took one look at the kids and said, no problem - we'll take them. They'll give them a good once over and their vaccinations and take care of them until they can be neutered and then adopted. Here are some pics of the little ones.

Oh Lord Have Mercy.....

Hey ya'll!!!!

I've been slammed head first into reality....ugh....and laundry and sandy gritty dirty clothes, and towels, and dogs. :0) Well, the latter isn't bad...we've been snuggled on the couch most of the evening getting reacquainted.

But...guess what? Braveheart is back in the house....with two of his/her siblings....in a box....on my dining room table. We came home today and after Shooter retreived the pups from puppy jail, errrr, the kennel, we let them out and the typical barking and howling and scratching ensued from the area where the kittens had been. We didn't think anything of it until Shooter let them out around 8pm tonight and went out with them....and he heard some hissing from under the pile in the backyard. He lifted up a piece of wood and found Braveheart and two of the other kittens. We dont' know what happened to the 4th one. We're actually pretty afraid that the kittens just moved locations and weren't actually carried away by the Mom. They don't appear to have gained weight and are much less frisky than the last time we saw them, a week ago.

Shooter went to the Wal-Mart to get some pet milk and we fed them each a few droppers full of that and they lapped it up like crazy. I think, they way they were lapping it up, that they may be weaned after all. They didn't want to take the little bottle we bought at all.

I think they'll be okay...but I have to try to get them to a rescue group. I have a friend who wants Braveheart...if she's willing to take on the medical bills then I'll let her have him and take the other two to a rescue.

Whew...I hope this all works out...

I promise pics of the vacation are coming!!! :0)

L.

Quickly checking in.....

Hey all!!!

I'm posting from a Starbucks this morning...it's sunny and gorgeous. Shooter and I just finished an hour on jet skis and it was a blast. Just as we were bringing the skis back, we were joined by two dolphins...it was amazing!

I have tons of pictures to share, I just haven't managed to make myself work too much on the computer, I'm sure you all understand! :0)

Oh...the story about Morey....

Well, Friday night I was on the phone with tech support from my work trying to figure out how to get my stupid computer connected to my home wireless network. The dogs were irritating me cause they were barking at who knows what in the backyard...so I let them out. Not 5 min later the tone of the barking changed considerably...you guys with dogs (or kids) know what I'm talking about. I went out to see what was the matter and Morey was in a standoff with an itty bitty kitten in our backyard. I basically hung up on tech support and ran out to save the kitten. Leah was circling from behind, but that little kitten was holding his own against my 18 pound schnauzer. I bent down and grabbed his scruff between my thumb and pointer finger and just looked at the little furball who'd so bravely stood up to not one, but two dogs. He hissed at me like he was a 50 pound panther. I cuddled the little man and finally got him to calm down. I didn't know where he'd come from but I had a good idea. We have stray cats behind out house and I was afraid that one of them had gotten up in the remnants of our dog house and birthed some kittens. I couldn't move anything so I wanted until Shooter got home. In the meantime, I took the kitten (who Di and I later named Braveheart) inside with me and the pups. We all laid down on the sofa and watched a little tv. The dogs finally ignored him and he slowly emerged from his towel and curled up on my shoulder. Shooter came home and was so surprised to see how small he was...much younger than I'd originally thought. We went out and turns out there were three more kittens back there. We gathered them up and went to see our neighbor who cares and feeds the strays. She guessed they were somewhere around 4-5 weeks old and not weaned. If we were going to take them to the humane society or a cat rescue....we'd need the Mom. Well, we tried trapping her and that didn't work. After talking to several people we decided that it would be best to put them back outside and let the Mom come get them once she was comfortable. We checked in the morning and they were gone.

I swear, little Braveheart made such an impression on me. He was small but he was the protector of his litter. Of course....Braveheart could be a girl....don't know why I assumed he was a boy...oh well. :0)

I hope to post more pictures but in the event that this relaxation overakes me....I promise to post over the weekend.

L.