Another busy week

Trudy and Elaine on the beach at Borenquen

It's been another busy week here - working on stuff (like the website) for Save the Horses, working on sponsors for ChiringaFest next spring, and CLEANING! getting ready for visitors from the mainland. We finally got the kitchen and office "remodeling" projects completed so the place needed a good cleaning.

Trudy, Elaine's best friend for years and years, arrived at 2:00 am Thursday and our friend Sarah and her husband Greg got in at 2:00 am Sunday.

Between all the cleaning and preparation and intermittent internet outages, I haven't had much opportunity to write. Not that there hasn't been enough to write about:

Before Tropical Storm Fay was Tropical Storm Fay, she was a a pretty disorganized tropical low that forecasters predicted would go right past us on the north side of the island. Fortunately for us, they were wrong and she went south of the island. There was a lot of rain and many areas of the island - especially in the south and east had some pretty bad flooding. We were very lucky! We only got a couple of inches of rain and that fell in a long gentle rain - what back in Michigan we called a "good soaking rain" - instead of a deluge. There was never any threat of flooding here and we're very grateful.

Trudy is a trained Master Gardener and she's spent two days cleaning up the garden, clearing out dead stuff, trimming up live stuff and generally teaching us to make the place look better. Between what we learned from our our friend Marty when he was here and what Trudy is teaching us, I hope we can keep it up after she leaves. Otherwise, she'll just have to come back once a month to take care of it for us.

Good thoughts out into the universe for Laura and Michelle, friends who are both (but separately) having medical procedures this morning.

This morning we - Elaine, Trudy, Sarah, Greg, two friends of friends and I - are going snorkeling. Then this afternoon, Trudy is going to do a discover SCUBA dive with Darryl and Elaine is going to tag along. Tonight we're all going to dinner at 18-67, one of our favorite restaurants on te island. Then tomorrow Elaine, Trudy, Sarah and Greg are going horseback riding at Tropical Trailrides. Hey, just another busy week in paradise!