In sunshine and with light ocean breezes we find lots of work to do around here, but some of it is fun. I made a design around a barrel cactus with the pink rocks I gathered at the beach many months ago. Greg loves to work in the yard–more so than I, but doing it together makes it tolerable and sometimes it’s fun.

We’re all cleaned up and straightened up after the hurricane now. The palapa is finished and the only thing we are waiting for is our friend the painter. He will put lots of marine varnish on it after spraying it with anti-termite stuff. Termites are voracious eaters. Pesky, nasty little varmints who are not welcome in our palapa.

I swept every room in the house and in the process removed a ton of sand. Okay, that’s hyperbole, but it was a lot of sand. And dog hair. And Susie hair. I shook out all the rugs and put everything back and now it looks so nice. Don’t anybody move!

My friend, Julie, is going to go with me to the orphanage soon. She is an art teacher and is going to teach them how to paint animals. In the process, she will be teaching me to paint animals too. We’re gathering our supplies and our courage. Our teacher hearts are going to be very happy playing with those energetic little beings at Hogar del Niño sometime later this week.

I started out a little grumpy this morning, but as the day wore on I got my happy back with my working and playing, planning and dreaming! Hope you have your happy on too!

Now it’s time for a nap. Oh the joys of being old enough to know how delicious a nap can be.