Superbowl sunday

Lots of rain overnight, and then somewhere around 4:00 am there was a crack of thunder.  Thunder here isn't quite the same as at home.  It always seems to start right overhead and then it rumbles down the coast for 15 seconds or more.  Over the next couple of hours there were a few more cracks, but shortly after we got up the sun came out and the humidity did a bit of a climb.  Went for a walk and just as we got to the house it started drizzling again, but that was short lived.  Mostly sunny for the rest of the day and nearly no wind.  Tonight it has cleared off with just a bit of sheet lightning in the far distance and not a breath of wind.  Nice out on the deck with the full moon and a couple of bats swooping around the hummingbird feeder and hardly a sound.

I'm trying to remember what we did all morning, and quite honestly, I don't have a clue.  I swept up the leaves on the stairway and the driveway, but other than that, I guess it was pretty uneventful.  Took a few pictures for Glen.......OK, so that first picture didn't drop quite where it was supposed to.  That's the house from the meadow area down below.

This one is taken from the deck doors looking into the living room, dining room, and kitchen.  I earlier mentioned that there were no straight aways in the house, this is the only one and it's a long one.

Here's a picture of some of the local wildlife taken from the back steps.  This is an Agouti, known locally as an Island Rabbit.  They're related to Guinea pigs.  At first glance they look like a big rat but they can move pretty fast.  In retrospect, that rat that I saw once when I jumped into the compost bin moved pretty fast too....and so did I.

We spent a bit of time this afternoon down at the pool, Eileen soaked up a few sun rays and is feeling the heat tonight.  I came back to the house early, booked a couple of dives for tomorrow and got my camera set up for diving.  Then we drove down to West Bay and had a happy hour drink at Fosters, Eileen had her first Monkey lala of the holiday.  While we were there we commented on the extremes, the quiet and solitude of our house and the hustle and bustle of West Bay. We're not sure if we want what we have or some happy medium.  I'm pretty happy with what we have..... Finished off those drinks and then headed to Smugglers for the game.  What a blast that was.  I didn't hurt that there were two chairs at the bar right in front of the TV when we got there, most of the people choose tables.  The place is owned by a very young couple (late 20's) and our seats were right where she did most of the book keeping.  She was so funny, right from the start.  As soon as we sat down she was selling us squares for the game but she confessed that she messed up because she had already written the numbers for the squares along the side, so of course everyone was picking the high probability ones.  There was lots of chatter about that, and then when the game started and there was a 2 point play, well she was off selling the unsold ones, cause they were hot items again.  The food was terrific, we had a shrimp quesadia (sorry not spelled right but you know what I mean) and a dozen wings.  Great wings, and those suckers didn't come off small chickens either.  The cooking area is right along one part of the bar and that poor guy was working his butt off tonight.  I told the woman that hubby was going to sleep well tonight and she said that he would either sleep well or he would be so pumped that he wouldn't sleep at all.  They haven't been open long and this was likely their first big event.  Here's what their bar area looks like.

I had a feeling coming down this year that this place was going to be good, and it's living up to expectations.  We'll be spending a good amount of time there in the coming weeks.

Looking forward to blowing some bubbles tomorrow.....