How Rum Stopped the Water - the Month in Review
While this blog was on hyatus, we moved....
...to a cute yellow house on top of a hill with a rainbow above it... (note the open hood of my yet-again broken down car on the left)
....with plantain palms that I can reach, and coconut palms that I cannot.
Thew view from the house is truly awe inspiring, even at night, where you can see tousands of stars as there is no ambient light to our East whatsoever.
Check our our 260 degree ocean view!
Also, my oldest turned 12, which is sort of odd.
We had an great housewarming party...
...and all the kids are back in school now.
Since we live on a dead end road, the kids can roam around as they please and since they all got new bikes, there are times when I don't know where any of them are, which is quite stunning, if you ask me.
Hurricanes Ana and Bill and TS Erika did not hit us and merely brought rain, lots of wind and empty grocery store shelves...
...but at least we still had very expensive, very happy Cherries.
The kids absolutely love the new house and continue to be creative, inventing toys and games, such as this awesome see-saw...
...and they also found a way to harvest coconuts
Our new house is still dependant upon rain water collecting in our cistern, which we then boil, as there is no central water system in Anguilla. Since the recent set of hurricanes brought rain, we have about 5000 gallons in the cistern right now, which all were trying to escape into the ground after our water pump blew up last night....
...until I figured out the prefect thing to the gravity feed into the pump stop...
...our very own Pyrate rum (cork) to the rescue!
...to a cute yellow house on top of a hill with a rainbow above it... (note the open hood of my yet-again broken down car on the left)
....with plantain palms that I can reach, and coconut palms that I cannot.
Thew view from the house is truly awe inspiring, even at night, where you can see tousands of stars as there is no ambient light to our East whatsoever.
Check our our 260 degree ocean view!
Also, my oldest turned 12, which is sort of odd.
We had an great housewarming party...
...and all the kids are back in school now.
Since we live on a dead end road, the kids can roam around as they please and since they all got new bikes, there are times when I don't know where any of them are, which is quite stunning, if you ask me.
Hurricanes Ana and Bill and TS Erika did not hit us and merely brought rain, lots of wind and empty grocery store shelves...
...but at least we still had very expensive, very happy Cherries.
The kids absolutely love the new house and continue to be creative, inventing toys and games, such as this awesome see-saw...
...and they also found a way to harvest coconuts
Our new house is still dependant upon rain water collecting in our cistern, which we then boil, as there is no central water system in Anguilla. Since the recent set of hurricanes brought rain, we have about 5000 gallons in the cistern right now, which all were trying to escape into the ground after our water pump blew up last night....
...until I figured out the prefect thing to the gravity feed into the pump stop...
...our very own Pyrate rum (cork) to the rescue!
Posted by Francie at 9/7/2009 10:22 AM 
Categories: Anguilla, Omololu, ConsciousLiving, Pets
Tags: Anguilla ConsciousLiving Omololu Pets
Categories: Anguilla, Omololu, ConsciousLiving, Pets
Tags: Anguilla ConsciousLiving Omololu Pets
Love the seesaw and cork. Necessity is truly the mother of invention.
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Very inventive and it did work very well. I can see where your kids get their ability to be creative and make the seesaw.
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It would be interesting to see what you and your kids would come up with from a bunch of lemons. Most people would make lemons, you all would probably make rockets.
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Fantastic pictures and update - I love your updates
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Brilliant pictures and such great creativity from the kids and you!
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Awesome pictures are posted here. Specially, i the way of children playing seesaw and riding bicycles on the road.
Thanks for this wonderful post.
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you are just crazy!
but respect how you manage your life.
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so, do you still have all those fish stickers on the walls of your working area? You just had to bring those, they are what made it the OFFICE
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Hi Francie:
Great job on capturing the moments here. I like the make-shift seesaw ...had me cracking how kids would invent ways to keep themselves occupied.
LeRoy
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He he, they build stuff around here all the time. Right now they're making their second clubhouse in the bushes, out of center blocks, random things and a sheet of plywood they dug up somewhere. Love that part about living here, they can just go and roam around and come up with things to do or create. Which doesn't always work out well, but they have fun
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