B Dock Netsel Marina

Marmaris, Turkey

Merhaba,

     Our time on DoraMac is growing very short; but there’s still time for an adventure or two.  This past Saturday I went to help at the Dog Shelter which I’d never done before.  Wednesday I’m going with Coni and another Ruth to the Movie Theater to see The Second Best Marigold Hotel. In our 3 visits to Marmaris, I’ve never been to the Movie Theater.   I saw the first Marigold Hotel on the plane from somewhere to somewhere.

      Today Randal and I bought two more huge suitcases to pack up books, clothes, art supplies, more books and a few souvenirs that we’ve collected over the years. Pretty much everything else is staying aboard.  Towards the end of the month we’ll take all of our stuff and move to an apartment and then give the boat a good cleaning for when Claes and Bertha return June 1^st for a crash course in “DoraMac.”  We are in the process of turning over ownership of DoraMac and when the final i is dotted and t crossed I’ll  let everyone know. 

Ru

DoraMac

Painting at the Dog Shelter

      Several of the cruisers donate their time to the dog shelter.  I don’t go because I just know I’d end up with a dozen dogs and that would not be good.  So Randal and I just donate money to the shelter and to several folks feeding the homeless dogs and cats around town.  But this past Saturday I did go with Maryam and Eva to help paint at the shelter.  We thought we’d be painting the walls in some of the buildings at the complex.  But that wasn’t the case.  We were to do decorative painting!  I think I still have some blue paint in my hair and yellow on my hands, but everything that needed painting was painted.   And in this warm, dry time of year the shelter is at its best with the dogs free to roam around the grounds, warm and safe and dry.  The dogs didn’t seem sad; but you could tell they all wanted to be someone’s.  I really wish people had to take a test before they could own a pet and prove they were worthy. 

http://www.marmarisanimalwelfare.com/  is the website for the shelter

https://www.facebook.com/marmarisanimalwelfare is the facebook page

http://gayeturkel.blogspot.com.tr/p/night-club-bar-wall-paintings.html  is a link to Gaye Tὕrkel’s website and some of her artwork.

The event officially began at 2 pm, but several of the volunteers were already there when we aarrived about 1:30.

Coffee, tea and snacks were sold to raise funds for the shelter. Lovely decorated cookies too cute to eat! I bought two slices of wonderful coffee cake to take home.

Maryam in the white hat and Eva in the peach shirt were painting one of the dog houses.

Maryam works on the stone wall of the dog enclosure.

The artist Gaye Tὕrkel guided the artists as they painted and she also added the more decorative touches.

Unfortunately I was sort of on my own…… My creation with lots of encouragement and some “help” from other folks.  One of the men had started this by painting the roof two shades of blue saying it was supposed to be sky.  He said I should finish it and add clouds.  The clouds (lighter blue paint) just made it look like the roof was half finished.  So then we found some dull yellow and I painted what was supposed to be a sun.  Then I added grass and flowers.  Then the heart.  Then the I  and   Dogs.