Cassie was taking a shower this morning and the light went out.  Hmmm.  It’s the first of the month and the previous owner had scheduled the shut off, but we should have averted that by getting everything moved into our name.  It is also ‘power outage Wednesday”.   It’s tough to figure out which one would have caused the outage??? lol  We confirmed with a local at the coffee shop that his power is out too, so we remain hopeful that is our case too. 

That reminds me of the story of finding how to turn on the power and where the heck to go!  When we were on our quest to get the power in our name we stumbled upon a long time local “Cindy”.  We were talking to her and she drew us a treasure map. 

Treasure map

We followed the map and did find exactly what we needed.  The power company!!!

Reminds us of the Darma Inititave in the TV series Lost.

Today we woke up and laid around for a bit listening to the sounds of the jungle.  I usually sleep on top of the covers but the last few nights have been getting kind of cold!  Something I didn’t expect.  When it is hot I’ve found that leaving the windows open and a fan is all I need to stay cool.  

Since the windows are open nearly all the time we started getting quite a few mosquitos.  We went to home depot and bought some materials so I could  put up some screens and since then we’ve been good.  We do have an occasional bug visitor, but not like we had before the screens.

Making Screens

So far that is about the only improvement that we’ve made.  We’ve been tempted to paint but stopped short of actually doing it.   We kind of want to relax, we both work 40hrs + (with my new job 50hrs) a week.  Plus we have our rentals and various other endeavors that keep us very busy.  Our goal was to buy the place and we are pretty happy with achieving that.  Also we are happy that the place is as livable as it is!  The kitchen sink needs to be hooked up, the roof needs to be sealed but otherwise we’ve been pretty comfortable.  That was somewhat unexpected.   We could have made do in the wood house, but I think the shower would have needed to be completely redone.  I may have opted to just convert it to an outdoor shower under the deck.   So many ideas.

We have occupied a lot of our time with trips to the beach.  It seems like the obvious thing to do.  

We also got caught in the rain a few times. It usually only lasts about 30 minutes then the sun comes out again. Very refreshing!  Here is a video of us “trapped” under some trees.