You can really feel that it’s off season now, September remember is the old adage, warning about hurricanes. It wasn’t always like this, but it is now, since Hugo and Marilyn passed through here. But once upon a time Foxy held his famous Wooden Boat Race on Labor Day on Jost Van Dyke, which today, hosting any kind of boat race smack dab in the middle of Hurricane season would be just about unthinkable.

It’s real quiet. No line at all in the Post Office this morning, the bank, also empty. Real quiet. At the gym at the Westin, usually bustling in the early morning, there was just me and a couple of other locals, Teri Gibney and Michelle Collins working out, no waits for any machines. I kinda like it.

I like the weather also, providing no storms threaten. For the last few days you could see St. Croix clearly in the south. The seas have been calm, no dead calm days yet, but we do tend to have them this time of year. Great for small power boats, not so great for sailors.

It’s been dry, too. Bees wait for me to turn on the outdoor shower or water the garden and they call their buddies to avail themselves of the water. Pretty smart creatures, they are.

And the mosquitoes and sand fleas have been lying low; don’t miss them at all. (“Don’t worry, we’ll be back,” they’re thinking.)

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