The'Hood'

The Caribe Island condo neighborhood is pretty quiet now.  There are only two other couples here who are renting.  Ms. Dee is here of course.  She lives here permanently and does her "Canadian" accounting work out of her condo via the internet.  Mr. Dee and Rhonda, owners and full-time residents, are still here too.  Although he hasn’t started his new job yet, he has been offered the job of heading up the water company here on Ambergris Caye.    They have their dog, Bailey, temporarily staying with them.  She is a good dog, quiet, and clean! 

Of course, Max and Buster, the Doberman and Rottweiler  from Suya Tours next door, still run through the area each day and the dogs from the house behind the condos bark every morning to make sure everyone is awake by at least 6:00 am.

 

Matt, the retired lawyer who lives for Duke basketball, is off on a trip but scheduled to return in a couple days.

Joel, our security guard, is here every night.  He played some Dominoes with us one night and now he and a couple of the other guards from the area have begun to play almost every morning about the time the sun comes up.  (Joel's wife and six children live on the mainland and he gets to go see them about once a month.)

 Of course Roger our maintenance man, actually “The Man” for Caribe Island, is here.  And Andre is here too.  They keep the area spotless.  Roger cleans the pool area every morning and, along with Andre, rakes the sand daily.  It makes the sand look good and keeps the sand fleas under control.  Roger does a wonderful job of taking care of everything outdoors.

(Roger's wife and four children also live on the mainland and he too gets to see them about once a month.)

Gail is still nursing her tomato plant but it doesn’t look like any tomatoes will ripen before we have to come home.

We have met well over a hundred people during our stay here.  But right now things at the Caribe Island ‘hood’ are winding down and settling into the summer season.   Construction and renovation has finally stopped and it is wonderfully quiet--except for the barking dogs who are in a fenced area behind the condo--right outside our bedroom window.  Gail and I are getting ready to pack our bags and head back to Arkansas.   Only a couple more days—hopefully the rain will have stopped and the warm summer sun will be shining when we get there.  It will be good to see our Arkansas families and friends again.