I have been struggling to find the motivation for a blog post; we have had a lot of gloomy skies and rain, as you can see (if you look beyond our neighbor's ghetto setup), and the state of *waves hands aimlessly in the air* the climate in the US. I believe it has rained at some point every day since my last posting. Our ground is saturated, our walkway has standing water, and we can't get ...

Things have been hectic around here! We thought we had raccoons on our porch at 3 am; we heard aggressive scratching on our window. Maybe they were trying to get in, to get to our cats...? Nathan ventured outside to find...a gecko orgy. Six of them, on our spare bedroom window, at 3-4 am. The aggressive scratching was Roxy, who was doing her best to claw through the glass to get to them. The ...

We were super-social last week with TWO public events! The first was a Murder-Mystery night at The Nauti Crab - the theme was a high school homecoming dance. Nathan and I were assigned characters that were each other's dates, and pulled together pretty decent costumes, if I do say so! Especially for island limitations. I was the "rich snobby girl" and luckily, had a $9.99 dress from Amazon a ...