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Corner of paradise
Sunday evening photo blogging:
A few days before I turned 13, my family moved from Idaho to St. Croix, the largest of the U.S. Virgin Islands. After a couple of months in a cramped apartment over a bank in Frederiksted, we moved to a big house in Carlton Estate. Around the house were acres of sometimes-green grass that I tended to with a riding mower that often stopped until I crawled beneath it and reattached the belts. My brothers and I spent a lot of time climbing the trees in the back, gathering limes and mangoes and building forts.
When I wasn’t on the mower or in the trees, I’d was usually on the back porch, sitting at the table (it’s my grandmother sitting at the table in this photo, I think) or in one of the chairs reading a novel about submarine warfare or a thick James Clavell epic. I read voraciously on that porch, and I can still remember how my back would stick to the plastic cushions but the rest of my would be cooled by the tradewinds sweeping the island.
I have a fondness for reading novels in the tropics. Then again, if you’ve been reading my blog, you’ll have picked up that nugget.
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Thanks for the memories… the times we used to share … you sitting in the chair.. the high sun gave a glare … off waters without out tears … thanks for the memories…
Dad
— Joe Dad May 20, 09:51 PM #Thank you. We have wonderful, wonderful memories of that home, don’t we? The 9 hole golf course, Trigger (Great Dane) and Sheba, the Frye’s (5 boys each of the age of you and your brothers. This porch gave us all a moment of respite. It is good to remember.
— Cheryl May 22, 07:18 PM #I just love your family and the love and care you are showing each other…And my belated B’day wishes to you!!!
— sakthi Jun 2, 09:47 AM #European Breakdown Cover