Home Again

After the week-long workshop in LaGrange, Georgia, we are glad to be back home on our island.

Several things changed while we were gone.

First of all, the gourds have grown greatly as have the banana trees.  The gourds are now at least thirty feet up into the trees in the yard and more of them have set.  The early ones are showing remarkable growth and are really getting to be very pretty.  We are wondering how big they will get by the end of the season.

Gourds abounding.

Secondly, Armando, our wonderful carpenter, has nearly finished the new raised walkway connecting our main house with our garage/guest house.  The old walkway washed away in Hurricane Dorian.  It was down steps and then back up more steps.  This new walkway is elevated to the level of the two houses and goes straight across from one to the other.  There is also Armando’s wonderful creative artistry to make it more than just functional.

Armando framed the steps and they highlight our paper lantern lighted screen porch.

Each day we walk around the house and think of how fortunate we are to live here, especially at this extended time of being at home.