One of my “Snowbird” clients is back early! Another regular is back from a 4-month stateside stint, so business is.

Right. It’s not booming at all, but it is what it is. And since one of my snowbirds comes to our house for his massages, I have to clean the house twice a week. Time consuming and tiresome.

A few weeks ago, I got a call from Dee at Sail Bilinda Charters. She knew that I had worked on charter sailboats and loved sailing, so she asked if I could crew for her on her boat, Zulu few times during the month of October.

Yes! Back on a sailboat. And getting paid for it! Dee’s a great Captain and  offers a fun trip for her guests

I met with her at the dock on Sunday for a briefing for the Tuesday morning trip. Monday on my way home from doing massages   (    !), I saw a bicyclist friend on the side of the road with a puppy she’d just found running on the side of the road. Of course she flagged me down, we chatted for a minute, but traffic behind me told me I had to get going. Apparently, there was another pup in the bush that she wasn’t able to catch. I already have my quota filled, and someone was there to help with the  healthy, friendly pup.

Tuesday morning as I was getting ready to go to the boat, Michael called. He saw the other puppy, and couldn’t stop, so could I go see if I could catch it? Okay. So I rushed out and didn’t see the dog, but we decided to set a hav-a-hart trap for it as soon as we could. Well, we caught two mongoose and the last time we set it, someone released whatever we caught. Oh well. Done with that for now. Haven’t seen the dog in a while.

I did some errands in Christiansted town and ended up gabbing the afternoon away. I rarely get into town and I was lucky enough to see two of my favorite local people/business owners, Sue Victor at Cache of the Day, and Michelle Pugh at Dive Experience.

We’ve been doing a lot with the sea turtles. Patrolling three mornings a week and doing one all-nighter each week. I really believe I’m getting too old for the all-nighters, though. Exhausting!

We’re also back to painting now that the tile work is done. Last night Mitchell and Bob had their soft-opening at the Cultured Pelican (more to come about that) so we had to go eat and wish them well..

Today we have an early morning bird-watch, and tomorrow brunch at the Pelican and World Food Day Festivities at UVI.

So, Wreg, that’s partially why I haven’t posted in a while.

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