Went to the farm early to check on the plants. Shortly after getting there we saw a horse and her colt enter our space. I knew I had to chase them out or else my fruit trees would be history. The men who are fencing the property lines have promised to put up some...

Picked up a Belizean friend who owns a plant center. She was coming out to see if the acre section I was planting could hold any more trees. She suggested that I wait until I undercut another acre before I plant any more fruit trees. I should now put in my cassava...

It is five o’clock and the roosters are all crowing, get up, get up. I obey, as I get dressed with closed eyes and head through the door to finish the job we started yesterday morning. As Marlene and I drive through the hills to our land the mist is still in the...

It rained all through the night, so I knew my land where I am planting would be very muddy. I had set the alarm for four thirty and when it went off I was still in a deep sleep. Knew I had to get up, because the boys next door would be up and ready to go at five...

Today we hired four workers to build a barbwire fence around the borders of the land. People are hunting on the land and I really do not want the animals to be killed. It is such a great Joy when I walk up to the top of the hill and see a deer scampering down to the...

Marlene and I did a house inspection. Made notes on things we need to check out with the builders.

Bringing Marlene up to speed on all what I have been doing

It is seven a.m. I am all dressed, the dogs are fed and watered and I am waiting anxiously for my new friend from Arizona. As I watched down the road I see her car coming she is taking me to the airport in Belizean City. We are both kind of tired after Saturday night...

What a Saturday night (I think that is a Jamaican song). Four of us went to a South Indian restaurant for dinner. Three expats (expatriates as we foreigners are called) and one Belizean. We got to the restaurant at five-thirty, order our meals and then went to the...