The tiles are almost all laid and the guys have been grouting the front and side porch. Woo hoo!

Since last Tuesday, we have been getting up a little earlier every day and getting the dogs ready to have workers around. This means that after they’ve had their morning “cookies”, I put Wiley out in the back yard (he snapped at one of the painters when they were here, so he can no longer be trusted), and Yoda goes outside in the front yard where Emmy, Fudge and Bebe have chowed down their Vita Bones and are making their morning rounds sniffing things and peeing where necessary.

I clean up the poop and then move the dog beds from the porch to under the neem trees, where Fudge and Bebe will be tied up for the day. They are getting used to this routine now, but at first, Fudge was highly insulted that I would not let him “help” the tile guys. He’s such a good boy.

After Yoda and Emmy are finished outside, I move them into our bedroom where they will spend the day. I close the sliding glass door so Yoda doesn’t go through the screen. She will occasionally bark like crazy at the guys that she can see through the glass, but she’ll calm down when I go in to talk to her. Emmy’s just happy to be inside.

We even did this all on Sunday, since they said they wanted to work for a few hours that day. Well, that didn’t happen. Too much partying for the guys on Saturday night, I guess. But they did call to let us know they wouldn’t be making it to work. So the dogs regained their freedom even earlier than we expected.

Not a lot of turtle activity on our morning patrols. Oh well, the experts did expect it to be a slow year for greens and hawksbills. But we had a nice snorkel Sunday when we swam out to Green Cay. Saw a very large green turtle with a big long tail, and a couple of  smaller hawksbills. I love the sea fan gardens out there. The colorful waving of the fans as the currents move them is one of my favorite underwater seascapes. We swam around out there for over an hour. It was great!

Yesterday, I noticed that my watch had stopped working. Since my daughter has closed her store and Patrick has retired, I went to Millenium Jewelers on Queen Cross Street. The woman working there sent me across the street to Tropical Jewelry which was closed because they’re officially on vacation. But Gotham was still there and agreed to change my watch batteries for me. How sweet is that? What a lifesaver, too, because I’m a watch-a-holic, and wear mine 24/7/365.

Anyway, when he reopens the store after vacation, I will definitely go shopping there for holiday gifties. He’s got some pretty cool stuff, and his space in that very old historic building is beautiful.

I love this place!

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