BlerkOne

The sea rats were out today.

There was no line, no waiting for pizza. I dinged the bell and someone came out to take my order.

Think I'm going to reboot this somewhat.... Starting yesterday

Late Seating. We would prefer 8:45 but it is what it is. In the Caribbean it would be 8:15.

Up Up and Away. Momma is gonna chill.

Our late seating on this cruise is 7:45pm (supposed to be 8:15). We'll see how that goes. New menus aren't here, yet, although these are dated July. Tonight in the MDR: QR-D1-july2023.pdf QR_AT_WineList_0223.pdf

Fun Times FT-01.pdf

The IT guy may need more training - the Funtimes from July 10 is posted on the Intranet. Seriously? funtimes_01.pdf

Sailaway was 4pm but we are still tied up at 4:45. They keep threatening to leave, but they haven't. We should be leaving soon. Alaska isn't going anywhere.

We have a Great Pyr and a psycho German Shepherd and at times assorted other dogs that people have dumped.

Anyway...

Once Miracle moves to Galveston we can drive there and have at least one cruise already booked out of Galveston. Now that cabins are available, things should be thinned out, but we are still waiting on luggage. Next year we also have Legend and Spirit booked.

Away, the kittens were panting in the 100+ degree temps + raccoons, so we got a real catio and brought them into the A/C where they are having a blast. Momma is going to get fixed after the cruise.

Raccoon steals the bowl

The little kitten that roared

They leave the adults alone. One night Momma was slapping the bejesus out of one of the raccoons eating out her bowl, and all the raccoon did was pick the bowl of food up and back away with it. Momma looked puzzled.

All good here. Even scored a window table for two.

A .308 would do it. A neighbor occasionally loses a calf to coyotes, so he is proactively trying do deal with them, which saves me from having to try to deal with them. And our dogs make sure I don't have to. I should have taken out the mother raccoon before her babies grew, but didn't. Really didn't want to since one of them is an albino. I mostly just enjoy harassing them with a pellet pistol. They have figured out not to let me see their eyes in the trees.

We lost a number of cats to coyotes when we moved to our current property and before we figured out what was happening. We thought some had just run away, but nope. We now have some coyote dispatching dogs, but one in particular doesn't always know the enemy. Or it could have been a hawk or owl or a raccoon. Maybe even a snake. I found one of the chickens that a dog probably snatched but none of the others. The circle of life.

Meanwhile, before we could trap mommacita, she had another litter - this time of 6! Meanwhile raccoons were also having babies and that can be trouble for kittens. I'd see the momma moving them around via security cameras now and then, and thought for sure she had lost some. I have no idea how, but she managed to keep all of them. She's a great momma, but no match for a herd of raccoons. We decided to help her out, and also get her fixed when possible. We snatched them.