Rain is gone!

Rain is gone!, originally uploaded by captainjay.

Finally the rain is gone and the sun is back! Three solid days of rain
and fog is enough. The cisterns are full and the lush green color of
the island has been restored. It feels good to be sitting outside in
the sun, reading, enjoying my last day of a long, restfull weekend.

Haiti Releif

http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/response/haiti/

So I am not going to go into huge details about why, I believe the why is obvious, but I am going to list some of the Charities that are trying to help out the situation in Haiti. For those that don't know this is the poorest nation in this hemisphere and frankly needed all the help they could get prior to this earth quake. The most immediate relief will be to contribute cash directly to the charities that already have a presence and frankly the infrastructure to make an immediate difference in the survivors lives.

The Clinto Bush Haiti Fund

The American Red Cross

There has been an outpouring of support from the public. To help, people can make an unrestricted donation to the International Response Fund at www.redcross.org or by calling 1-800-REDCROSS (1-800-733-2767). The public can also help by texting “Haiti” to 90999 to send a $10 donation to the Red Cross, through an effort backed by the U.S. State Department. Funds will go to support American Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti.

PS This is one of the simplest ways to donate, just text the money it will be added to your phone bill.

Unicef

They have set up a fund for direct support of Haitian releif.

Yele Haiti

Wyclef is about as close to this as you can be.

Doctors Without Borders

There is also a link here to a much more complete list of Charities on CNN's web page.

Also for those of you locally. There is supposed to be a fundraiser concert on the 23rd at Yacht Haven. I don't know the details yet but when I do we will post them.

Friday Beach Picture

So this one is a little out of the ordinary for us it's actually on St Croix. Unfortunately I didn't take it. For those of you on Face Book I found an interesting fan page this morning and borrowed it from there. The page is Eveything and anything Virgin Islands it is an interesting page. It's a mix of tourist and local with lots of interesting pictures and stories, definitely worth checking out.

Jay

Slow Week

We haven't' posted anything since Sunday because there really hasn't been much going on. We did get our boat back out of the boat yard yesterday. We had to have it hauled out and bottom painted. It looks good now we just have to make time to use it. I do need to give it a good cleaning as the decks are dusty from a week in the yard.

The photo shoot went well and was fun but I am dragging a bit. With the rain delay I ended up missing my days of this week so I am getting ready to start my thirteenth work day in a row.  Deb and I have some time off together coming up so hopefully we can get caught up on some rest and our errands and maybe even squeeze in some fun.

Jay

That's a wrap

Well, the photo shoot was a success. Lots of great shots. Weather was beautiful except for about an hour this morning, other than that, gorgeous. Everyone involved worked really hard which will show in the
end result. I'm so glad I got to be involved, plus getting a weekend on the water wasn't bad either. :-)

Great ending to a perfect day

Today was super fun playing paparazzi during the CYOA photo shoot. Took tons of pictures with everyone elses cameras because they were sooo much nicer than mine so hopefully I can get some copies. Full day
tomorrow scheduled, breakfast shot, snorkeling, lunch, girls afternoon... And the weather forecast looks great!

Hard day at work

Jay working hard sailing Flying Moose for the CYOA photo shoot. It's a beautiful day and the shots are turning out great. I can't wait to see the results. Who knew Jay would some day be a male model. :-)