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Just NO! Some of us love squirrels. Put a baffle on your bird feeder. 😡That is just disgusting.

We hardly ever have interesting weather like that, either. ☺️ The floors are in. I am just terrified of messing them up before we sell the house and have rugs everywhere. They look very nice. I forgot to take photos before we put rugs everywhere.

WOW! You have the most amazing looking skunks in Virginia, Jim! I have never seen a skunk (or even a photo) of a skunk that looks like that. Not a mostly all white one. Ours are the classic black & white striped ones. Like Pepe le Pew. ☺️ That's fascinating. Thanks!

Turkey. To make a peacock, you really need dishtowels.☺️ From Cabo resort:

Totally unrelated to any recent posts, but they are starting on the new flooring installation tomorrow. 😊 It seems really exciting, until you consider the reality of how much stuff needs to be moved/put somewhere else. The loveseat is gone. Two cabinet end tables are gone. The sofa is on the front porch and will remain there until we have enough stuff for a bulky waste pickup. We're not even doing the bedrooms. We are going to keep them carpeted. Living room, kitchen, and hall. It has been 3 weeks of moving stuff, packing stuff and getting rid of stuff. Bobby and I will hang out in the master bedroom. 🙄

I like Charlie's "woo-woo-woo" Poor pitiful me. Not fair!

A coworker has fixed in place, decorative wooden shutters on the front windows of his house. One day, he was hosing them off, and all of these soaking wet little brown bats came climbing out between the slats. They had no idea and had never even noticed them before. He just left them, and hoses them more frequently, to make it not a good roosting spot. ☺️ That's a chubby bat on your screen, Greg. Maybe he (or she) has been eating well. 😄

That's two! Only 10 more to go for the calendar! ☺️

Yes! It was very, very good. I love chocolate. Thanks again. ☺️

That's a bummer Greg. Unless you are totally incapacitated, it is hard to make these things work out sometimes. And knees are definitely harder than hips.

@HBE4 It looks like a wonderful getaway. Beautiful view! Very rustic though. It looks like you had a nice time. I guess we are fortunate. Everyone keeps calling our other house a cabin. But it is actually a house that is even larger than our present home. I wish we were on a lake though. There is only a stocked ditch for fishing.

They like snacks. We had a bartender that we chatted with quite a bit. At the last port, he mentioned that he was getting off at the last port to get snacks. On the last night we asked if he had gotten his snacks? He said no, he got busy. We always bring a lot of snacks. We had unopened Pringles, bags of Peppermint Patties, I think Reese's, KitKats and some other stuff. Unopened or individually wrapped. He was delighted. Comment was "I love chocolate!" We don't bring snacks for them specifically. But if it works out, it does. We also tip generously.

Try Alaska. When we went to bed at 4:30...it was still light out. ☺️

I just don't feel really pampered anymore. We did a B2B in March, and the whole thing just seemed mediocre. I guess the most frustrating part was just trying to get dining reservations for our 3 night package. And we went very early for the second cruise. We are just taking a break, while we do some house stuff, and see if the prices get more reasonable.

We have one little sad rose bush in the front yard. And every year it optimistically leafs out and has beautiful blooms. And then the deer come by one night and strip all of the flowers off and most of the leaves, like a goat ate it. ☺️ I hope your husband Charlie is okay, Marietta. And I am hopeful that Linda's surgery will go well, Greg.

Sadly. It is gone. We had a wonderful time in them, before they were taken away. Smoking lounge, private bar. No need to bother others. Oh well. We are taking a hiatus from Royal Caribbean.

@HBE4 Wow! I watched the footage this morning. I didn't even know they had flash floods in New York state. I thought it was more of a desert thing. I hope you weren't flooded. Stay dry!

They do not. On Vision Class ships, only the balcony and above staterooms have them.

Last time we stopped in Barbados, we booked a Viator trip to their wildlife park, because I specifically wanted to see their Patagonian Mara. They are not exhibited very many places. The park was old and failing and rundown. They used to have 7 of them, but this old guy is the last one left. It is not a caged park, and we hiked all over to find him. And he is probably gone, and there won't be any more on Barbados.

That is so cool to see Kangaroos and your other exotic animals in the wild! It is like us seeing coyotes. Which are so common, that they are not really unique or exotic. Or the skunks in the backyard. But your wildlife is so unusual to us in North America. ☺️ I really enjoy your photos.

Cruise line excursion! Not their fault. 😛

There would be even more mayhem. (than there already is) if consumers were allowed to purchase Class C fireworks in California. Obviously, a lot of people here are able to purchase them anyway, illegal or not. There were 2 more local fires last evening. And there would be even more. It is probably a good thing that they aren't for sale. And cruise related: Ruby Princess ran into the dock in San Francisco today.

Just out of curiosity, are all kinds of fireworks legal to buy in PA? We have a few municipalities nearby that allow the purchase and use of Safe & Sane fireworks. Sparklers, cones and that sort of thing. Aerials, Roman candles, mortars and firecrackers and M-80's and M-100's are illegal in the whole state. But millions of people here seem to find them to purchase. 😏 What are people allowed to buy there? ☺️ Just curious about the differences. And there was a 10-acre fire at our nearby lake last evening.

That sounds like our neighborhood. Non-stop explosions since 8PM. It is absolutely amazing how many illegal fireworks are out there. We were both amazed at how continuous the noise is. Bobby doesn't like them. He went and hid in the garage until we both came back inside. I don't hate them. It is just that every year, I am surprised at how many there are.

I don't think there are really any obstructed views on Adventure. There are some weird lower balcony plates, instead of clear panels. But overall, I liked the privacy of the balconies.