Valentines Day!

Friday, February 14, 2014

Woke up to a very quiet house!  Kept with our usual morning routine, coffee, a muffin and some toast.  Banana and Bhuda came by to say good morning.  I think that they missed our Daniel!  I offered them some of the kibble and both sniffed it then looked past me into the house, looking for Dan I'm sure.  It took them a while to finally realize that I was the only one there that was going to give them any treats and a pat, so they eventually accepted the kibble from me.

Brenda was up and sitting on the sofa and she asked me to go to the kitchen area a number of times for different little items.
This was all a ruse to get me to see that she had smuggled a Valentine treat here for me!  It was hiding right there in plain sight on the counter and I must have passed it about 6 thousand times before I noticed it!  The Valentine Jelly Bellys were awesome!  I think that my little bride still loves me!  She even gave me a kiss to acknowledge it was Valentines day!

After a couple of games of cards and coffee.  He decided to head into town.  It goes without saying that Munchkin did her pirates cheer as we passed by the Pirates Treasure.  We gave a local a ride into town.  He was on his way to a poultry shop for some chicken that he was going to bbq later.  We parked on Front Street and took a walk down the beach.  We had lunch at Hurricanes, and again it was a great meal.  They are constructing a sea wall next to Hurricanes and we watched as they manually assembled re-bar then using nothing but people power moved it inot place onto the forms.  There was a large pile of conch shells beside the forms and they come from the excavation under the forms.

Dirty Banana At Hurricanes!

Apparently they pick them out of the dig by lowering one of the workers head first into the water holding onto his ankles and then pulling him up with an arm full of empty conch shells!

On our way home we met Florenzio on his was back from dropping of his guests at the airport and gave him a ride back to the house.  He has another family coming in on Saturday afternoon and was going to be busy getting the place ready for the new guests.  He told Brenda that the new guests would be leaving on the 22nd and there were no others coming until March 7.  He offered the use of the pool again if we liked after the 22nd.  Florenzio said that he missed Dan out on the pier with his fishing pole already!  He asked if we had heard from them yet and hoped their travel home was without problems.
This afternoon we spent on the beach loungers sunning, reading and resting!  Munchie was mostly reading, I was mostly resting!  In the late afternoon I took a bag of sardines, the fishing pole and a Belikin out to see if I could angle up a big one!  I saw three small barracuda swim by under the pier, they didn't even appear to notice my hook and bait!  A fair sized ray cruised by and circled the hook, so I reeled in quickly.  I didn't have the means to release him if I hooked him so I did not want to take any chances!  I sat out there until sundown.  I pretty much just fed the crabs and the little fish the hole time!  I did make one long cast that I'm sure Dan would be proud of, into a sweet spot straight off the pier.  That was also my only real strike of the day!  Something big grabbed and took off.  I grabbed up the rod, but it ended as fast as it started.  I had a whole sardine on the hook and when I reeled in, there was only half of it left!  I suspect it could have been one of the barracuda.
Brenda made a fantastic pasta dish for supper, complete with homemade garlic toast.  It was awesome.  We ended up watching a James Bond flick, "Die Another Day" with Pierce Brosnan, then hit the hay.
Tomorrow I think we may go north again.  There is supposed to be a beautiful beach up there on the west side of the island.  We are going to check it out.