Early Bird Gets the Sea Glass

Early bird gets the sea glass or so I thought. My husband and I headed out at 6:40 am this morning to hike down to our favorite sea glass spot before work. There was a negative tide and we thought by getting there so early we would be the only ones on the beach.

We hike down to our spot, out of breath before our caffeine fix in the morning and look down at the beach…there are already three people down there, heads down digging through the gravel. Uggghhhhhh! People more crazy than us.

Undeterred, we head for the gravel. I’m sure this is to the annoyance of the three hunters already there. We find a small amount of sea glass. Nothing really worthy of the shard of the day, except maybe a piece of Vaseline glass. I’ve found better. But I could tell one woman had already sent her husband down the beach in search of the big pieces as she methodically dug through the gravel in a grid. The other woman was on her own and was digging through her own piles. I did a hit and miss in the gravel and found a few pieces. We didn’t really have a lot of time so we gathered the pieces we found in a ziplock bag and headed back up the hill.

The photo shows our catch for today vs our find the day we found the marble.

I guess the find of the day was really the exercise we got so early in the morning on a beautiful sunny day. I wonder what the tide is like tomorrow? If we get there at 6…..

Looking for Lizards

I cringe every time I pick something up off the floor in my bedroom or when I slip on a pair of shoes that's been laying on the floor. Why? Lizards, snakes and rodents find their way into our house on a regular basis. All thanks to my lovely kitties. They tend to end up under my shoe rack hiding under a boot or inside a shoe that didn't get put back. I shake each shoe out before I put it on. My vision is that I'll put my foot in a shoe and a lizard will bite my big toe. I'll scream and fling it across the room. I shiver just thinking about it.

Right now I'm waiting for Boyd to get back from one of his weekend trips to the hardware store. He needs to look through my sock basket. It has a funny smell emanating from it. I got a whiff of dead something. I am not dumping that basket out myself. No way, no how. I'm sure Darryl the boy cat thinks it's a nice gesture to bring me a gopher or mole and put it with my socks so I could thank him later. Sigh....eeewwwwwww.

Good thing my cats are cute and cuddly. Thought it was time to listen to my kitties theme song again:


Ray Wylie Hubbard - Snake Farm
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Shard of the Day-May 17, 2009

Marble! Not just your regular small marble but a giant marble. The shooter. Cool! It's light green when you hold it up to the light and it's got that twirly thing inside it. Ok, I didn't find it, but my husband did. It rolled up at his feet in the surf in Half Moon Bay. Talk about awesome.