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- HOW TROPICAL IS IT? Our first pineapple!Emailing: IMG_0094
  • From: "Jane Higgins" <jhigginswear at islands.vi>
  • Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 14:32:29 -0400

 
It's hot hot hot and the garden is cranking up.  We've had some really good rain in the last few days helping to
push out the Sahara dust.  It seems hotter than usual this early in the summer, have the fans cranked on "3" so not sure what
we'll do when it comes to August and September.  The pool is at 92 degrees so looking forward to it becoming a hot tub soon.
We are moving the tomatoes and peppers to cooler spots on the east side now, the deck is baking them!  This picture shows
pomegranate, and herbs in the  background are  tarragon and thyme.  We have had nice cucumbers and onions
are coming along ,everyone in the Caribbean should be able to grow some food and have enough to give away.
Here is our first pineapple!!!! We harvested it last night, it has 2 more babies coming on....took forever but absolutely the best we've ever tasted!
 
Looks like we'll have a few days of blue sky before the dust comes back and some moisture should be coming up
from the South.  Stay in touch and let us know how you are doing.  Being prepared is the best stress reliever for later on in the season.
 

St Thomas US Virgin Islands
jhigginswear at islands.vi

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- BARKED THE DOGS!!!!
  • From: "Jane Higgins" <jhigginswear at islands.vi>
  • Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:53:37 -0400
Realizing that June 1 has come and gone and that storm preparation season is here , it is the barking dogs
that wake up the reality of storm season every year around this little jungle hut on the west end of St Thomas.  A few weeks ago 
just past midnight the thunder boomers came, re-instilled total fear into our dogs Audrey and Ella (dumpster found coconut retrievers) and put
Max the shepard on full alert.  Audrey and Ella born and raised in the islands have experienced loud blustery storms for years , always forgetting
from quiet season to rumbling season that those thunder boomers are BACK.   
 
Again last Tuesday all day long the thunder was huge and the crackling seemed so close.  The dogs literally ran out on the deck when the storm
was at a distance and tried to bark it away.  As the temperature dropped, their brave barking turned  to drooling whimpering as they
hid in the kitchen, below the desk or any other place the human feet are.  Audrey, Ella and Max are  the lucky pups.  They hear the neighbor
dogs out in the tempest crying so loud at the end of their chains, in the rain.  Understanding abit about the science of weather saves modern humans;
listening to the sound of confused fearful whining and barking of those unprotected dogs is a sound hard to describe. 
 
Reality has kicked in looking at today's stormcarib map and we are in for some more rumbling, rain and panic among our canine friends.  If you can't
secure your dog in a dry safe place so fear doesn't drive him to wander, if you think that it is decent to leave any animal on a chain without shelter
in a storm then I wonder again, why have dogs? They are the most social of our domesticated animals and just need to be with us , with each other,
or safe and secure. 
 
Let us know how it is for you down island with this wave coming thru, and excuse my rant about dogs.  The cats seem to be oblivious to all of it whether
inside or out in the rain.  Maybe the lucky dogs will come back as cats in the their next life!
 
 
 
 
Jane Higgins 
St Thomas US Virgin Islands
jhigginswear at islands.vi

- Getting started
  • From: ronusvi at aol.com
  • Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 08:58:31 -0400
Weather has been icky these last two weeks. Cleared up yesterday and looks good so far today. I hear there may be another passing through this week. Season starts soon! Will get more regular with my reports.
Ronnie

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