Mid-afternoon. Hot, hot, hot.
Outside, on Hermitage Road, the school kids are walking by, returning to their homes after a hard day of hitting the books, or computers, or whatever it is school kids ‘hit’ these days. Apparently they don’t travel home by route bikes after school. Their voices ring out as they pass by; they laugh and call out to each other and play games as they walk along, just like kids going home from school all over the world do. The girls are dressed in knee length smocks, navy blue with white blouses. The boys in long brown pants and khaki shirts.
Luna, our Rotie/Shepard mix guard dog (she’s actually just a big pussy), lays in wait in a shady corner just inside the wrought iron gate to the complex. She watches the children file by. Occasionally, for reasons known only to her, she unleashes a barrage of ferocious yelping barks at a passing group of unsuspecting kids. They squeal and jump away from her, then dash past the gate. Luna knows she isn’t supposed to do this. Yesterday she was scolded for it, a hang-dog look on her doggy face. But sometimes girls just wanna have fun.
This morning we walked the entire length of the new sidewalk project. If you're interested, I’ll have a report later.
We are just starting to settle in.
Ahh! I hear the high-pitched steam whistle peanut guy coming up the road - Gotta go.
Haven't tried this place yet.
A shady section of Hermitage Road
The mouth of the South Negril River - really tough to row over this section!
