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Hi, my name is Victoria Grace Avara (Vickie for short) and welcome to my blog. This blog was written while I was stationed in Barbados for 4 years from 2008-2012. I would just write things down whenever I had the time. I would write about my experiences with living in a new country and a different culture. Please forgive my grammatical errors, but enjoy these posts that I wrote during this time. My husband and I dearly love the Island of Barbados and we hope to someday retire to this little island that we called home for 4 short and wonderful years of our life. I hope that you enjoy reading this blog.

Sincerely, Vickie Avara

Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Hermit Crab




I am going to tell on myself -  but before I can do this story I need to preface it with the fact that Gary shaved his head (in case you have not seen a picture of him lately) so, he has no hair.  So, this morning - I am driving Gary to work in our only car, and he looks down at my pants leg and says, "Hum, is that your hair or mine?"  I look down and study it and try to determine if it is a blond hair or a brown hair and it's length and then, finally - it dawns on me that he doesn't have any hair!  I look up at him, unfortunately way too many seconds have passed since he first made the comment, and he is grinning at me like a mule eating briars.   He is full of jokes.  If you have never been around him, you need to be - because he is good at it - and I unfortunately, am way to easy to fool.

Let's see - oh, this morning - our maid (Betty) is here to help out - and it is raining outside but the sun is also shining.  So, Gary says to Betty - "Betty, where I come from - they have a saying that when it is raining and the sun is out - that the devil is beating his wife."  Betty looks up at him and says, "Well, he sure is doing a lot of it about now."  LOL

I always like to post a picture or a video and so, today - we were walking on the boardwalk and Gary spots two hermit crabs carrying their shells towards the sea.  Now, you know that I have been told that hermit crabs like to steal someone else's home (shell) and live in it.  And this video is a good example of that.  Here these two crabs are carrying two shells - totally different in color and shape back to the sea.  Not their own.  Hum, I think there are some people in our lives that could be classified as hermit crabs - don't you think?  They take what someone else has built and worked hard for and feel they are entitled to it as their own?



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