Sarah with several friends (proof there are at least 4 species)

Sarah is now hand fed - she attacks my finger

I made the mistake of putting raw shrimp in the aquarium last week and within one day the water was cloudy and the wormwood worms were dying.

I’ve made several partial water changes, (I’m sure my neighbors think I’m nuts when I stand in the surf and fill my plastic water bottle while Sophie, the eternal optimist, runs around my legs chasing those gulls and sand pipers.)

 

Sarah's neighbor, John

Today I have delared the little aquarium healthy.

Just look at these guys, I have at least 4 species of crabs (please don’t tell Melinda they are just spiders under water)

Betsy…..   I promise to feed them regularly and change the water 3X weekly, but I absolutely will not buy a new aquarium for these crabs, welk, coccina, worms, etc.    I know I said that about the turtles,  (named and released as Betty & June  2 years later at the LeBus pond), but I really mean it this time…..

 

Blue is larger than Sarah, but very shy

This little brown crab lives in the neighboring driftwood

Oops…

My new neighbor, who good-naturedly tolerated the misguided efforts of the Fort Morgan Militia a few weeks ago, returned this weekend to work on his beach house.  He now has functional electricity, so he brought his wife, children, and very impressive bulldog.

I noticed the lights when I returned home from watching the Alabama game at Brad & Ann’s Saturday evening (OMG – what a game), so I resolved to walk over and introduce myself and apologize again Sunday.

They were all as nice as he was when I first met him…. his son and daughter were delightful and extraordinarily polite. His wife, Teresa, is a Social Worker in Baton Rouge and was extremely forgiving of the Fort Morgan Militia.  Sophie and I had a terrific visit.

But when I got home I checked the internet before I emailed my boys about the new neighbor and..…

OMG! 

He is the Strongest Man in the World!   I am so thankful he didn’t see my little electric car when I pulled in behind him to record his license number and Sam called the police that Saturday nite in October.  He admitted he was already aggitated because of the electric problems…

The truth is, he is a very, very nice gentleman and his wife and children will be welcome additions to Surfside in Fort Morgan.

I’m so glad they all have a sense of humor…  And Sophie is glad their Mississippi State bulldog isn’t threatened by a Wildcat setter!

Happy Happy Halloween!

I accepted, next-to-the-last-minute, Ann & Brad’s invitation to accompany them and their friends to the Happy Hooker’s annual Halloween Party & Costume Contest. So I was in need of a costume….

I didn’t bring much from home that would make a good costume, so I decided to work on something really scary this year. I went to MalWart (after stopping at every grocery and drug store on the way and they had nothing) to get the perfect hat. Then I adorned it to make it the scariest hat ever seen on the planet.

I didn’t bring any of my stand-by wigs, capes or kimonos (who knew I would be trick-or-treating at my age in Alabama?) but I did bring a funny jacket I bought a couple years ago. It’s black, and I guess I thought it was my favorite suit when I grabbed it and put it in the box……. but that suit is still somewhere in Kentucky. Damn.

So I decided to pair it with the scariest hat on the planet for my costume and I will be…..

Drum roll (can you guess before you scroll down?)

I will be the PANIC BUTTON all the talk shows are talking about when they talk about the economy!  TA DA!

Please mail candy and caramel covered apples to Fort Morgan!

Hope y’all get more treats than tricks!