paw prints, manatees & fishin' ditty

did you know i have a pair of black reading glasses with white paw prints all over them AND & And i have a pair of black sox with white paw prints all over them. i wear them at the same time. who does that? you've heard of purses matching shoes. but glasses matching sox? i'm amazing & sometimes i’m really full of myself.

does he have the cutest butt you ever saw? and lucas’s isn’t bad either. honestly, i do love dog butts (& my hubby’s). so does robin adams (again i have to add parenthesis, ‘cause i don’t know if she admires chris's butt, but i do know she loves dogs’ butts.) check out this photo if you don’t believe me or THIS photo. she knows amazing butts when she sees 'em!

i have always been nervous to be in my kayak when the manatees were around - i thought they might tip me over & mistake me for hay & eat me. (birds try to peck my hair because they think it’s grass or something - [as if i could ever know what those mean spirited, evil intentioned, carnivorous birds are thinking...ok, i’m afraid of the birds, all sizes, i’ll just admit it. my slanderous words stem from fear FEAR, i’m fraught with fear of our feathered “friends”]) good news, i’m not fraught with fear of the sea cows any more. i love those pig nosed big grey softies. they are gorgeous.

to see the scars and wounds on these beautiful giants, even on the babies' backs, made me so sad & almost ashamed. i wanted to apologize. i think we were forgiven our human-ness. they loved swimming around the kayaks (if they had tails, they would have been wagging!) and came up to sniff - so amazingly trusting. chris said their breath smelled like fresh mowed grass. i can’t wait to let them get close enough so i can smell their breath.

we are waiting for ditto’s life jacket to come in. we had to order the extra small. i hope it looks ok under her fishing vest ‘cause we can’t cover that thing up. if she goes on daddy’s kayak she’ll help catch fish, if she goes on mommy’s, she’ll just look cute.