Update

I am still alive!

After a busy month of November and fist week of December with 4 sets of stateside visitors, buying a rental condo in Sapphire Village, studying for and passing the Coast Guard Captain's Exam and listing a new condo for sale, I am starting back to being normal again and will have time to start writing on the blog again.

I will have an announcement to make hopefully next week, so stay tuned! Meanwhile here are a few highlights of the last month:

Happy Friday!

It is time for this week's Happy Friday!

Smith Bay had a mini carnival on Labor Day. They put the colored flags out with light bulbs. Here it is almost and October and I thought I would give a status update of the flags/bulbs:

Might as well through out the flags now as they are pretty shredded! Soon come down?

Anyone want two dressers? We moved these down from Reno, Nevada, where the average humidity was 25%. How are they holding up here? They have expanded so bad that you can't get the drawers open! I shaved the wood down several months ago to come back to the same conclusion, these are just like large dehumidifiers, the drawers have locked up once again! I think I am going to re home them at the dumpster. If you are thinking of moving down here, my advice would be to save the money and buy new stuff down here! Good news though, there is always someone moving and selling their furniture that is island adjusted, so the new re-homed ones come this weekend!

Yes it is not even October yet and we still have Halloween and Thanksgiving coming, but it is Christmas season in the Virgin Islands! 

Yes, at Home Depot we already have the Christmas section up! Ho Ho Ho!!!!

We are boatless this weekend, yes sold our boat the Louly 2. It was nice using you girl and thanks for the memories! I know we will see her around as she is going to be part of a charter boat fleet! I don't know what I am going to do with myself?  It has been almost a year and a half now owning a boat here and we rarely ever skipped a weekend day on our boat. Good thing we have football! Speaking of which Colorado beat Oregon State and Jets beat Tennessee!

I also found a nice home for one of my tenant clients! Congrats on your new place Angela and Brian! Don't forgot I am here for all of your St Thomas real estate needs! Our logo is on the right, just click on there! 

Have a wonderful weekend and for those of you north of Latitude 18, enjoy a nice Fall Weekend! I leave you with this weeks photos!

 Happy Friday! 

Kenny Chesney's New Album, "Life On a Rock"

Country music star Kenny Chesney has a new album coming out in April called Life On a Rock. From what he was quoted in a recent interview, the songs will reflect living on an island. 

Funny! A few things here:

1. Kenny Chesney owns two houses on St John (one is for sale). 

2. We always say we live on "The Rock" otherwise known as St Thomas. 

3. The video for "No Shoes, No Shirt, No Problem was filmed at Ivan's Stress Free Bar on Jost Van Dyke. The songs inspiration came from a sign in front of One Love Bar on Jost (see picture). 

"When I first went to the islands, I met a lot of people who were making a life beyond anything any of them knew... They were boatmen, bartenders, waitresses, real estate folks. They were all loving life, living a dream and coloring outside the lines with this real sense of freedom; they took a country singer from East Tennessee into their tribe at a time when having friends outside everything I knew was important. Time passes, life moves on, but those friends lasted, and this album in a lot of ways is about the power of that kind of friendship to endure."


Here is the link to his interview: interview