I have been struggling to find the motivation for a blog post; we have had a lot of gloomy skies and rain, as you can see (if you look beyond our neighbor's ghetto setup), and the state of *waves hands aimlessly in the air* the climate in the US. I believe it has rained at some point every day since my last posting. Our ground is saturated, our walkway has standing water, and we can't get ...

Things have been hectic around here! We thought we had raccoons on our porch at 3 am; we heard aggressive scratching on our window. Maybe they were trying to get in, to get to our cats...? Nathan ventured outside to find...a gecko orgy. Six of them, on our spare bedroom window, at 3-4 am. The aggressive scratching was Roxy, who was doing her best to claw through the glass to get to them. The ...

We were super-social last week with TWO public events! The first was a Murder-Mystery night at The Nauti Crab - the theme was a high school homecoming dance. Nathan and I were assigned characters that were each other's dates, and pulled together pretty decent costumes, if I do say so! Especially for island limitations. I was the "rich snobby girl" and luckily, had a $9.99 dress from Amazon a ...

We survived our Juice Cleanse! I was able to find enough ingredients to make it three days on liquid diets. Oddly enough, there seems to be a ginger shortage on the island currently; I subbed ginger powder and it was almost as good as fresh. Courtesy of a photo, I realized that my eyebrows were incongruent. It's amazing how your brain sees what it wants to see in a mirror, (i.e. 15 years you ...

Last week felt like it was busy, yet I accomplished very little... My main focus has been on compiling ALLLLL of the documents to apply for my work permit and both of our Permanent Residencies. The list of documents online is only a starting point - and individual results may vary! I am working with a local to help with the work permit, as suggested by the Labour Department. One item that i ...

Ethan and Lilly's visit was fantastic, just what the doctor ordered - time with missed family, Nathan had a week off from work, and we had the opportunity to be tourists in our country for a bit. The days absolutely flew by, and it's somewhat of a bummer to have no other "inbound" guests on our calendar.  We did an overnight at The Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Center again - we cannot s ...

Last week, we started the cleaning and preparing for Ethan and Lilly's trip - they arrive Friday afternoon! Since we have essentially condensed two homes (our goods from Phoenix plus the items from when the villa was a rental) into one, we live in constant clutter. Plus, we have had a lot of projects going on, like coating the patios, and I painted some of our railings, too. We had some debr ...

A wide variety of experiences last week... We had a few dry days and rolled the dice, looking to the skies the whole time, and were able to fix our patio coating! Here is a before and after shot - it's so much nicer now, the aggregate is coated enough that it no longer hurts to walk on it! And it's one, uniform color. However, we coated it really thick, and there's a seam on the vertical wal ...

Last week was busy! Aside from the regular errands and house maintenance, Lobsterfest was in full gear! This is the first year that we were "on island" for the Block Party - I picked up a Passport (you earn a stamp at each lunch and dinner location you attend while they host Lobsterfest IF you order lobster, to be entered into a drawing) at the Belikin Store on Coconut Drive on Wednesday - m ...

Last Tuesday was the opening of Lobster Season! I journeyed into town to get some content for Live & Invest Overseas, as well as my YouTube Channel: Lobster Season Opens in Belize 2025! The sun was shining, and it was a beautiful day - we had not had rain in a few days, so when I got home, I started doing prep work to coat our patios with the same material we put on our roof. They were an ag ...