velcro beach

well we've been just chugging along day after day after day with lots of sunshine but no wind to take advantage of cause it is either not there or directly on the nose so we haven't gone out into the ocean but we're sticking with the icw. we haven't heard any of our friends on the radio for a while and assumed they'd all jumped off for the bahamas since there are some good places along here to do that. but guess what we came into vero beach today and they are all here! they say they've been having so much fun and are so comfortable here that nobody has left yet. so big party tonight and breakfast with the gang in the morning and then we'll move along since we're already “behind schedule”. all that means is that we didn't get to spend thanksgiving with big dummy's aunt and cousin in port charolette. but we did have turkey. b.d. opened a tin of turkey breast and split a bunch of pickles and dumped all that between a couple of slices of bread and then scooped some of the turkey into my dish. delish.

here's some news for all you cats who are shoveling snow and ice this week – down here there are biting insects and flying cockroaches. so don't complain too much. i don't know what these little bugs are but they look like tiny flying ants and they must have some secret way of communicating with each other because they get all over your body when you aren't noticing and then biteA you all at the same time so you think you are going crazy or having a manapause hotflash or something. nasty little critters. and last night big dummy had some kind of bug zipping around inside his sleeping bag man that little baby could move. finally he turned on the light and grabbed it and threw it out the hatch. but it didn't bite anyway. somehow it got all the way down around his feet. big dummy was mad at me for not catching it before it invaded his most holy of holy places – his sleeping bag. hey i try nobodies purrfect.

here's some other news for all you amateur ornithologists – you know who you are. remember when it wasn't that long ago that seeing an osprey was like a really big deal? well now they are all over the place down here. its like they are taking over. and they aren't shy in fact we got so close to one today that we could see the eyes on the fish he was eating. osprey's are so cool they play with their food. really. when they swoop down and catch a fish they fly around and juggle that fish between their toes until they get the head turned into the wind. i guess that makes it easier to fly. then they eat it after they find a place to land. also today we saw a cormorant that swallowed a giant fish right in front of us while we were moving and then his belly was so full he couldn't take off so he just splashed along on top of the water until he was out of our way. stupid bird. but that fish did look pretty good though. i would have at least chewed it a little though.

well i hope everybody had a bodacious thanksgiving with lots of fish to eat and stuff. time to close up all the ports so the bugs don't eat us and then get some sleep.

purrs and kisses

peace

kitty

first mate s/v JoHee