November 13, 2009

We're living at our beautiful home in Coral Bay, St. John, USVI.

Life has been wonderful. Yesterday I hosted a meeting with the Paradise Knitters. It was so much fun knitting, eating and chatting with my Coral Bay friends.

Between knitting, yoga, the beach, reading, walking, taking care of a cat feeding station and relaxing the day goes by very quickly.

My daughter Rachel should be giving birth any day now to her baby boy. He was due last week so we're all sitting at the edge of our seats.

I'll be going to NY for the baby's Brit Milah and will stay for a week to help Rachel.

I'm still teaching an online graduate course for NYIT and give webinars for Scholastic from my home.

In a few weeks I'll be flying to NY to give a Fastt Math workshop but hopefully most of my work will be from home.

David is very busy with our garden. It's so exciting to see our crops grow since there is very little organic, fresh vegetables here.

Kat Sowa painted our garden fence. We think it's beautiful.

Today I assisted Richard in building some stone steps down to our property. Richard has been working with my husband David and teaching him all about the flora on our property. We call it our plantation. We bought this piece of land next to our home to give us total privacy.
I mixed the cement, sand and laid in some rocks and shells that we collected at the beach. What difficult labor!

November 12, 2008
I'm sitting on my deck at Peace of Bordeaux. This is my winter home in St. John, US Virgin Islands. We're having company tonight and after I prepared the meal I decided to relax and watch the sky. When I sat down on the comfortable lounge chair it was wet. I didn't realize that it rained. My first reaction was that my clothes got wet and then I looked at the view and saw a rainbow that stretched from the clouds down to the water. I've seem several rainbows in my time but nothing was as beautiful as this one.
I never imagined that retirement could be so sweet. It really doesn't get any better than this.

September 27, 2008
It's been quite some time since I posted anything on my blog. The reason is because I haven't been traveling to exotic locations. This past May we purchased our dream home in St. John, US Virgin Islands. We've made several trips from our home on Long Island, NY to our home in paradise. We plan on living there during cold winter months.
It's still so new and exciting that we would rather spend our time in St. John than travel around the world. I'm sure that we will resume our adventure travel in time.
For now, I'll be posting photographs from St. John.
This is the view we have from our living room. We can see the British Virgin Islands.