The photo above was taken just moments ago - a truly spectacular morning here in Cayman - one of the many that I either take for granted or miss because I’m busy getting ready for work or on the weekends still in bed!
Although in the middle of summer here and with that, rainy and hurricane season too - the last few days we’ve had a little respite from the intense heat and due to lots of rain, we’ve had some cooler mornings and evenings which have been lovely if a little heavy with mosquitoes! But we take the good with the bad and keep smiling :)
Today we have a couple of friends driving, as I type, down to ‘chez nous’ in France where they’ll be staying for perhaps a few weeks. We’re both so pleased that the place is being used in our absence although a little nervous as the place is far from ‘guest ready’ - it’s hardly somewhere (yet) that one can turn the key and enjoy - there’ll be lots of unveiling - plastic sheets - throw cloths etc. to do as well as getting rid of the mouse and rat poison dotted around the place - but we’re hoping we left it in fairly good condition when we left in July and that they’ll have a really good time.
In order that our neighbours and lovely stonemasons aren’t surprised if happening by, we’ve written to them all and just got a lovely note back from the stonemasons this week to say that they’d hoped to strim the courtyard for our friends but have been unable to get round to it between too many work committments and the crazy heat they’ve had in August - so although there’ll be some yard work for our friends to do, we hope the weather will hold out and they’ll be lighting the bbq and not the fire inside!
On an ‘agricultural note’, Tony has decided that he’s going to start off the first of the tomatoes of the season. Although it’s too hot right now for them to do anything, we think we can start them off indoors with the intention of transplanting them around early October so that we can have fresh vine ripened tomatoes once again and not pay over the odds for ones that flown in from goodness knows where - picked green and vine ripened by being sprayed with oxygen to turn them red in some cases!
Wishing you all spectacular sunrises or sunsets wherever you may be! With love from us - the transplanted pretend farmers! x
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