Busy Days in Culebra Life

Gearing up for things ahead may keep me busy, but it doesn't do much for the photo department. I mean, one of the things I'm most excited about right now is that I got a new to me refrigerator that will be dedicated to baking things and eventually eggs. I literally and figuratively did the WOO HOO dance. But neither that, nor the fridge is something to get real excited about in a photo. Trust me on this. Big thanks to Pan and Jim for helping me move a pretty big boxy thing down maybe 20 steps going many which ways, along with the rest of the way. Yippee for skinny strong guys!

I was going to crop this last January photo of Pan and Ricky to just Pan, 

but seeing it again, I just had to have then both around. 

I went outside to take a photo of a huge pink cloud that was sunrise color before the sunrise, bouncing off a cloud in the west, but before I got out there, it had gone grey. There was still no sun on my hilly eastward horizon so I took a bunch of shots of Cwim. That weren't any good. Now the sun is up in a sort of washed out sky. Some days are like that and this is one of them. 

So instead, just the facts, ma'am.

Sunday, October 16th, is Blog Action Day. What is Blog Action Day? Here is a brief description, according to the site:

Since 2007, Blog Action Day has focused bloggers around 

the world to blog about one important global topic on the same day.

 Past topics have included water, climate change and poverty.

This year, Blog Action Day will be held on October 16, which coincides 

with World Food Day, so naturally our 2011 theme is FOOD

So if you are a blogger, or have some favorite blogs you read, mark your calendar. It's sort of like A Moment in Time, with a lot more words.

Something I ran across that I think is pretty cool. I've read about this many times, in fact and fiction, but I've never seen it put together before. I found this Cabin Porn (a great site if you like photos of all aspects of cabins and the like, which I do), attributed to this website, but I'm still not sure exactly where it came from.

Hobo Code

“The pictographic Hobo Code is a fascinating system of symbols understood among the hobo community. Because hobos weren’t typically welcomed (and were often illiterate), messages left for others in the community had to be easy for hobos to read but look like little more than random markings to everyone else to maintain an element of secrecy. The code features certain elements that appear in more than one symbol, such as the circles and arrows that made up the directional symbols. Hash marks or crossed lines usually meant danger in some form.” source unknown

So much for the meanderings in my head while living the everyday life here on Culebra. Yes, there are pauses to look out on the beautiful blue waters of the bay, to listen to birds calling, to watch an iguana fall out of a tree where he's been madly scrambling. But sometimes it's about chopping away limbs from the telephone wire, painting a shelf, moving a refrigerator, going to the PO and the bank (staring out the bank window at shimmering water and islands, being glad to be standing in a bank while doing this), just life. So it goes.
 

Redux #2, just in case you really need a Culebra fix!

Have a wind up Wednesday! Do something willful.