Month: January 2014

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How to Leave a Comment

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A little bird – umm perhaps it was an Ortolan Bunting 🙂, mentioned that they had difficulty with the comment thing. No worries me lads and lassies, WordPress offers several ways to leave a comment, thought, question or whatever is on your mind sort of thing.

When you click on the icon for Facebook, Google+, or Twitter, a new window will appear from that service asking you to log in and approve giving your information to our blog. This window is controlled by Facebook, Google+, or Twitter for security reasons. You can be logged in to different services at the same time, in which case you will be able to choose which identity to use when posting a comment by simply clicking the appropriate icon in the comment area.  Easy right?

If you are a WordPress user you would/could log in via your WP identity. Even easier.

You can also choose to leave a comment as a guest if you prefer. To do so just fill in your name and email. Your email will not be displayed (made public), so no worries there. Your name can be your single name, a combo name or a nickname.  Of course it’s helpful if we recognize your “name”.

The first time you leave a comment that comment has to be approved by the comment empress and after that one time all your future comments will be posted automatically. If you change or can’t recall the name you used, WP will think it’s your first time and make the empress approve your comment. So if one time you comment as Billygoat and the next time you forget and use Billygoats, WP thinks you are two different people and makes the empress approve both comments. So save the empress some work- no- cancel that -don’t even worry about that name thing- she needs to know what’s on your mind, so write your comment, thought, question or whatever and keep the comment empress (she’s also the blog empress as you may have guessed) entertained and happy.

Finally, to steal an idea from the ARG organizers (check the next post for explanation), if you haven’t left a comment before, try it; you’ll like it!  If it doesn’t seem to work well for you, let me know. Thanks!

 

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Ortolan Cat Floating Resort

View of Monument anchorage from the top of Monument hill. Ortolan is the only cat in the photo

View of Monument anchorage from the top of Monument hill. Ortolan is the only cat in the photo

After returning from Long Island Jan 6 we moved around to a few harbor anchorages, finally landing a great spot off the shore in the Monument Beach section. On the 10th, our son would fly out on the same flight that Cathy, our next guest, would fly in on. We’d hoped to hook up with our favorite island homeowner, Cort, (Carolyn, his other half isn’t being ignored, but she’s home in WA) before he flew home for a few weeks on Sat but site work for the camp house suddenly was in full swing that week. However, Friday the 10th was a new Bahamian holiday, Majority Rule Day and most businesses would close and that included the contractor and his workers. Cort offered his time, boat (which I have dubbed Island Runner), car and rental house and ferried us in, then taxied us to the airport, the market, back to the airport to pick up Cathy and back to the house for lunch and my secret laundry facility.

Customs and Immigration at George Town Airport

Customs and Immigration at George Town Airport

George Town International Airport is small and friendly; more substantial than Black Point yet not as large as Nassau. As we walk up to the door into the terminal, a woman stands holding the door open. “Benjamin Rackliffe?” she queries. If I’d thought faster I could have taken credit for arranging his own personal airline host, because after the flying down ordeal, didn’t he deserve it? Instead the truth was that he was one of two parties who had not checked in online (hey we tried) ahead and since the other one was a party of two, the person walking up had to be Benj. We hung around for a bit as parents are prone to do, then did a publicly acceptable farewell routine (the real mushy one we did earlier on board) before heading off.

One service that cruiser guests provide when they fly home is to take stamped mail and mail it when they get to a U.S., Canadian or where ever home is, mail box. Benj had a package to mail for us (a very special one) along with mail from two other cruisers. It’s an easy and convenient way to get mail out of the Bahamas because if you mail anything from here- kiss it good-bye for two months!

Cathy waits for us at Kermit's Lounge across from the terminal

Cathy waits for us at Kermit’s Lounge across from the terminal


Luncheon feast at Cort's Burger Villa

Luncheon feast at Cort’s Burger Villa

When a guest visits, you wish for the best weather possible and by some miracle Cathy’s 4 ½ days were some of the best so far. She got off to a busy start; we didn’t even let her get settled before our lunch date and tour of Cort’s property.  In true resort fashion though we provided accommodations, equipment, ideas, food, water, sunscreen and let her set the pace and activities. Not sure it’s any surprise that someone still working full-time and in need of relaxing down-time would choose anything but R&R activities- especially those that required slathering on sunscreen.

Cathy views the building site for the camp house

Cathy views the building site for the camp house

Getting up at oh dark thirty to fly then getting dragged around, requires a snooze before dinner

Getting up at oh dark thirty to fly then getting dragged around, requires a snooze before dinner

A beautiful day for a multi-island kayak cruise

A beautiful day for a multi-island kayak cruise

We tested our skills and our memories in playing this game.

We tested our skills and our memories in playing this game. The margaritas were helpful too

As the saying goes, be sure to leave with sand in your shoes.  Hang on to that tan- I say!