Caribbean Note IV

Hi Everybody,

Happy Halloween!

Nice to hear from many of you!  It's easy to forget about the election and the World Series and all the hubbub of life back in the states.

Ian and Danica's pictures are posted on the web now and there are great shots of each of you.
http://www.printroom.com/event.asp?evgroupid=239&domain_name=katiejervis&group_id=239

Our construction project has consumed us this past week and in spite of the frayed nerves we've gotten a bunch done.  The electrician is due to arrive any minute to run conduit and wire in the garden for lights, then the construction crew can complete the concrete work and provide a foundation to install the lamp poles we built.  (After looking everywhere and finding nothing we liked, we fabricated our own.)  The big debris pile is gone from the driveway and the stones and sand are waiting to be assembled as a pathway through the front yard from the porch to the front gate.

We're also having a big tree taken out (it's roots are cracking the walkway adjacent to the patio and on and on.)

We had visitors (meg divers) from Canada this week and finally had dinner with out Aquatic Sports buddy John who's here teaching the OSU and UofO students enrolled in the marine biology program at CIEE (the lab on the island that studies reef ecology et al.)

Hurricane Tomas is passing to the north of us and should give us some weather and three meter ocean swells, but will not effect us otherwise, except to keep the cruise ships away.  We've come to look unfavorably on their arrival and the general crush of activity while they're in port.  Now that we've found this little island paradise, we want to keep it to ourselves.

Hope all is well with you; can't wait to hear about Jesse and Sidney's trip to Paris!!

Talk to you soon,
Dad