Friday, November 30, 2012 – Cocoa:

            Oh my gosh!  Last night we had a major kitty cat breakthrough!  I had fed Lucy and was starting to make a salad for our dinner when I heard this plaintiff meowing.  It was sort of soft, and I couldn’t really figure out where it was coming from even though the boat is not very big when it comes to a meowing cat.  So I looked around, and I couldn’t believe my eyes, but Missy Mouser was sitting at the door asking to go outside!  It was a little after dusk, so I guess that’s when all the pterodactyls fly back to their perch for the night so the mouser felt safe.  She walked all around the deck exploring all the spaces, and I decided to let her alone and finish cooking dinner.  From time to time she would duck back inside, but then she would venture out again.  When we put dinner on the table for the people folk (that would be Bob and me), she came in for the night.  We couldn’t believe it!  Then this morning she didn’t disappear like she usually does – she stayed out basking in the sun on the settee – until I got out the vacuum cleaner – then it was a mad dash for under the covers.  I say – kitty cat is making progress!  Now, if she would only go up on the flybridge, she would find a whole new world up there where she could look around from on high, and I know she would be loving life!

            The only other wildlife story this morning is that we have a beautiful green heron that visits the boats every morning.  I may have mentioned in a previous blog that we discovered this bird enjoying the flybridge of the boat two boats down from us as the owner apparently forgot to close up his flybridge when he left his boat last.  I’m sure he will come back to somewhat of a mess as the bird stayed up there the whole day!  Well, this morning he was perched on our stanchion by the door, and I tried to get a picture of him before Bob shooed him away.  Bob has actually gotten up in the middle of the night to chase birds from the back deck – you can hear them landing and walking around.  How rude!

            Well, I just hate to tell you all this, but that’s it for today.  My cousin and his wife, who live in Orange City are coming for lunch tomorrow, so we cleaned the boat inside and out to make the proper impression.  I haven’t seen them in a few years, and we are looking forward to spending the afternoon with them. 

            On Sunday, I think we will have to sit down and plan the next two weeks before we fly home.  We will need to rent a car again, and hopefully take some sightseeing trips.

            On more interesting tidbit – there is a large Beneteau sailboat in a slip here from Mystic, Connecticut, but it is flying an Eastport Yacht Club burgee.  We have not seen the owners, but the boat name is something like Avila.  If anyone knows anything, inquiring minds would like to know.

Our resident Green Heron