What’s the Haps?
Every day here on our coconut island is a day filled with miracles, gratitude and thanksgiving . . . and Good Eats! A very special thank you to the Food Bank volunteers for continuing to give us an opportunity to [...]
Last week we experienced some really abrupt and ferocious winds coming down off the mountain. Our guests staying in the Maid’s Suite Back mentioned over coffee that I might want to have a look, that they thought ‘a little [...]
Mid-Oct my dear sister Jan Brown visited me from Beaufort, SC. She has been a beekeeper in various areas of the U.S. for about 20 years, and she is the one who rooked me into keeping bees. I could [...]
How about a flotsam and jetsam of what’s happening other than preparation for The Safe Haven and YOUR ARRIVAL...Our magical born-again apple tree is blushing with ripeness and tons of apples so be prepared to see them at breakfast. [...]
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that after 28 years a couple of our poor old screen doors had seen better days. An ongoing challenge with older structures is of course they are NOT what is now considered ‘standard [...]
A former guest recently knocked my socks right off and dropped my mouth with the following image of my home in 1997. Obviously ‘the bones’ of the surgeon’s house remain but man oh man have [...]
Of all the beings that are NOT thriving, the javelina are defying the odds. So far in this year’s breeding season since March, we have counted now seven generations of babies which seems like just too many. Unwittingly, our [...]
It felt like a pretty idyllic way to celebrate a birthday at the Surgeon’s House. . .happy b-day Wray and thanks for the image.
We finally screamed UNCLE and raised the white flag of surrender. We have replanted the narrow beds at the base of the front steps and along the driveway at least four times recently, only to be uprooted – literally [...]
Everyday as we tend the bees; fill sugar water, jelly, pollen and birdseed feeders; and retrieve chips from our stealth cameras, we seem to have to deal with all variety of messes created by the critters. . .the most [...]
