An accident waiting to happen.

I was riding back to work after my beach lunch when I saw this hot dog motorcycle rider. (Red shirt, on the right. Then he passes me a few seconds later)

He seemed to be barely in control, and after he passes me, he turns around, as if to see if I was impressed. I wasn’t.

I was trying to decide, if he crashed right in front of me, if I’d stop and hellp, or ride on by. No obligation on my part to help him or let him make me late for work, but it woulda made interesting video.

Luckily, (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) he didn’t crash. Not that I saw, anyway.

Things like this are not uncommon in Cayman, at least this one was wearing a helmet. Most of the hot dogs like him aren’t.

If he woulda wrecked into me, I’da been mighty angry.

Happy Tuesday!

Last week I bought what had to be the worlds largest grapefruit. Two or three times the size of a regular grapefruit.

I still have more than half of it in the fridge at work. One section fills you up. Below is a pic of a smaller section.

One grapefruit could feed a family of five.

Had a good weekend, went an event at the wife’s workplace Friday night, Saturday we had dinner at an event for the wife’s church.

In between was yardwork and whatnot. It was a good weekend.

Have a great week!

Yesterday I spent too much time perusing the photo below. I saw it on Facebook a couple days ago and later, went back looking for it to study and save.

This amazing photo is actually a closeup of the top of a fence post. It looks like a complete fantastic world. There are mountains and valleys and riverbeds and forests and deserts. I’m sure that if you were small enough that the moss was a forest, there’d be ponds and lakes too. If we were tiny enough, we could live there.

Look closely and carefully, pick a spot for your house.

Have a good weekend!

the other night I couldn’t fall asleep, I was thinking about things that I haven’t thought of in a long time.

When I was very little, I had this baseball uniform. I guess it was New York Mets or Yankees, it was all grey with red pinstripes. I was 2 or three years old.

My little brother or sister had a toy xylophone. I remember playing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” on it.

Then I played it on the piano, and had to take piano lessons. I was thinking about my piano teacher.

I was thinking about tons of other things too, that I can’t remember now. At one point I thought, “I’m gonna die, my life is flashing before my eyes”.

But I don’t think so. I’m too old to die.

Have a great day!

I’m sitting here, back porch, in actual morning light, You know I’m running late if it’s light out. But it is getting light earlier and earlier.

But it’s not my fault

The pump in our birdbath was making noise, so I cleaned it. Causing me to be running even later.

Dawgs weren’t co-operative this morning, making us even more tardy.

Yesterday, on our dawg walk, we didn’t see a soul. This morning each and every single one of the predawn walkers were out, explaining why they “didn’t make it” yesterday. Of course I listened politely, further enhancing our delay.

So I’m late.

February 4th, 1997, I arrived here in the Cayman Islands to live and work as long as they’d keep me.

23 years later I’m still here and they’re still keeping me, and I’m thankful every day for that. There’s no place on Earth I’d rather be!

Have a happy Tuesday!

Good weekend, picked the wife up from her Costa Rica trip Friday afternoon.

Went to a wedding Saturday, which was very nice. Good ceremony, good reception.

Went and watched the Super Bowl Sunday, which was also nice, because Kansas City beat San Francisco.

And now it’s back to work on a Monday.

Not much Brexit in the news these past months, but according to the BBC Radio, today at noon UK time, (about right now), the Parliment will take down the EU flag, and will be out of he EU. It’s only phase 1 and other steps like border controls and trade differences will take place later.

If, right now, the UK changed their mind and wanted to stay in the EU, they’d have to re-apply, just like a country that was never in the EU.

Doubt this will have much effect on Cayman, but it’s been interesting to follow.

Finally Friday, after a long week. Wife gets back from Costa Rica today.

Have a good weekend!

I saw this picture yesterday and stopped to take a look. It is an ultra closeup of our sun. The article yesterday said each “granule” was the size of Texas. I didn’t realize it was new untill I heard the BBC Radio talking about this morning.

I found an article with video, space.com/first-sun-image-from-massive-solar-telescope. It is definitely worth a read. Very very cool stuff. Especially the video.

The BBC said the dark edges are cooler material sinking and the yellow centers are hotter material rising.

Wife comes back from Costa Rica tomorrow.

Have a great day!

Yesterday in Cayman we had an earthquake. I felt it quite strongly. It was a smooth, rolling wavy earthquake, not the normal, much more violent vibratory, rattling, shaking earthquake. It was I think the fourth earthquake I’ve experienced in my life so far.

It had a tremendous effect on water in pools and cisterns. The water sloshing in the work cictern was the loudest thing, and I heard several stories about how water jumped out of swimming pools.

Below is a video stolen from Facebook at the Water Authoriity, generators and providers of fresh water for probably more than half the island. I think it’s very interesting. Give the cameraman a minute to quit spazzing out.

And there were several sinkholes reported too, the (also stolen from Facebook) video below shows the Westin Casurina Hotel on Seven Mile Beach.

I had no damage at home, and as far as I know, none at work. I haven’t heard of any of my friends reporting damage. I did see some pictures of cracked buildings in town.

And remember this?

Have a great Wednesday and good day!