These seedlings are probably a foot higher by now. Seriously - this picture was taken SIX DAYS after I planted the seeds. SEEDS. AFTER SIX DAYS. Crazy, huh? Green stuff grows in Florida like nobody's business.
Big news of the day: I GOT A REGULATOR! My own! No more borrowing, renting, or more borrowing. Yay yay yay! And Matt gave me an octo, the hoses I need, and a.. you know.. gauge thing. And he tested them all. Yay Matt! Keepin' me alive and everything! And he loaned me tanks! Yay Matt! Now all I need is tanks and I'm totally set.
And yay three-day weekend! I'm going diving Saturday morning - OFF A BOAT. Novel idea, huh?
Speaking of boats - ahh, I want to find someone with a sailboat that needs beer fetched or, uh, seats that need slept in. I'm good at both of those things on the boat. To anyone who hasn't been on a sailboat, it's nice. You're moving fast, but it's not loud or diesel-smelling. You just gliiide and everything's beautiful. Florida is so great. :) Gotta find someone with a boat so I don't have to miss that!
OK, time to go home. The cats - indoor and outdoor - are probably all totally pissed at me; I've been gone all day.
I'm Stacey. I'm a 31(!)-year-old Wisconsin girl living in sunny South Florida. The highlights in my life are my lovely boyfriend, my aloof cats, my adorable/adoring stepdogs, my two lumbering tortoises, select family members, being outside, being underwater, taking pictures, yadda yadda. Stay tuned for lots of babbling!
A small boy lived by the ocean. He loved the creatures of the sea, especially the starfish, and he spent much of his time exploring the seashore.
One day the boy learned there would be a minus tide that would leave the starfish stranded on the sand.
When the tide went out, he went down to the beach, began picking up the stranded starfish, and tossing them back into the ocean.
An elderly man who lived next door came down to the beach to see what the boy was doing. Seeing the man's quizzical expression, the boy paused as he approached. "I'm saving the starfish!" the boy proudly declared.
When the neighbor saw all of the stranded starfish he shook his head and said: "I'm sorry to disappoint you, young man, but if you look down the beach, there are stranded starfish as far as the eye can see. And if you look up the beach the other way, it's the same. One little boy like you isn't going to make much of a difference."
The boy thought about this for a moment. Then he reached his small hand down to the sand, picked up another starfish, tossed it out into the ocean, and said: "Well, I sure made a difference for that one!"
