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Building A Fish Pond in the Rainforest

February 1st, 2010 · Fish Pond

Pile of carpets in shallow end of pool ready to use as liner underlayment.

Our friends Greg & Linda at the neighboring horse farm Hacienda Siesta Alegre gave us these used carpets to help pad the ground when we put in the pond liner. They bring the carpets in from Florida to use as padding on the floor of the airplanes which they ship thoroughbred race horses in to local horse farms and for the race track here in Puerto Rico. So these carpets will have been recycled twice.

The mess of pipes and valves for the waterfall and pond drain and filter

It took me a while to figure out how to plumb this. The majority of the water is going to pump directly to the waterfall but some of it has to go through the bio-filter (not too much as you don’t want to upset the balance of organisms living there which do your filtration). So there are two gate valves to regulate those flows. Then there is an over-flow basin for when the pond gets to high and a big ball valve to open the pump directly to the overflow for when you want to drain the pond. Then another basin drain in the bio-filter tank so you can clean it out.

Fish Tail palm we moved over to the far end of the pond

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Our Fish Pond Project

January 31st, 2010 ·

Our fish pond crew is composed of all Rainforest inn volunteers who come here to work for three months in exchange for living in the rainforest. The deadline for the pond completion is the 25th of February. I’m going to blog all the details about how to convert an old destroyed swimming pool (basically a hole in the ground) into a fish pond

Here you can see the sand bag walls of our new fish pond

Our volunteers came here for a three month stay in the rain forest. Lou and Laurie are Horticulturist and Landscaper. Nate and Caden are on a break from work (starting a new job in Nevada) and school (studying Ecology).

Our pond crew from left to right Caden, Nate, Lou and Laurie sitting in front.

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Who’s Who at the Rainforest Inn

October 5th, 2009 ·

Hi. My name is Pedro. I’m writing Bill’s Bed and Breakfast blog this week because Bill is busy entertaining visiting relatives in addition to running the inn during peak season and opening up a new five bedroom villa. I’ve been living here at the El Yunque Rainforest Inn for about eight months now.

This is the first time I’ve had the chance to hang out “behind the scenes” at a B&B guest house and it has been very interesting. Small places like this get their personality from the owners and Bill & Laurie certainly have some personalities. Bill is from the west coast and Laurie is from the east coast. Bill grew up in a large family which raised their children absolutely laissez-faire. He basically did whatever he wished with no adult supervision. He has stories about inventions he made as a child (one of which blew up his bed). Laurie, on the other hand, grew up in a strict organized environment working as a very young girl in her parent’s business. So you can imagine that they don’t always agree about how to run the bed and breakfast. Bill is busy running his ship’s agency which leaves Laurie in charge at the inn. But Bill still has time to interject free-style inconsistencies which keep things interesting.

I want to tell you about the girls, my favorite subject. Lizzy is a platinum blonde beauty. She has been with Bill & Laurie the longest. Although she is popular with the guests she proved her unreliability last year in a spectacular fashion. She took a hiatus (without either Bill or Laurie’s approval) for nine months. I worried about her whereabouts all that time but remembered also that the workers are often not on time and have been known to take off from a job sometimes for weeks without notice. In Puerto Rico it is more important to stop and help someone who is in need then to be on time for a job. Lizzy came back very nonchalantly one day after her vacation with some excuse about how she was kidnapped. Laurie was relieved to see her again but by that time she had transfered much of her affection to Bella, one of the younger girls (but not the youngest). Bella is always a real angel around here, a little prissy and whinny and not as popular with everyone like Lizzy (the blond) but admired for her extreme (and completely self aware) cuteness. Sometimes Bella will show up in the kitchen wearing some boutique get-up that only her and Laurie can appreciate.

The newest girl is Maya. She has only been here a short while but acts like she owns the place. She leaves her belongings out in the public areas for the rest of us to pick up. She doesn’t know how to behave around guests. She is usually being disciplined by Laurie and always forgiven by Bill. She thinks she is the one in charge and often pretends to supervise. She is into everyone’s business. She tries to make sure that everyone is where their supposed to be and lets us know if someone shows up unexpectedly. Sometimes she reminds me of an SS officer on patrol of the rainforest perimeter.

I hang out in the kitchen which is the center of the bed and breakfast. I am probably the one who spends the most time with Laurie as she not only prepares the incredible gourmet meals here but also all the rest of the meals for the volunteers. One of the guests took pictures of me because I’m a real Puerto Rican. I felt like the native Americans must feel when tourists photograph them as if they were part of the scenery. I was reluctant but Bill assured me that it would do no harm and that my photo would end up on an interesting web site and anyway it would only take a few minutes. Well, a few minutes turned into hours. I was never quit sure what was expected of me because the photographer and I didn’t speak the same language. After that everyone was “where’s Pedro”? I had disappeared for a couple of days to let them know what I thought of that whole deal. This island is full of Pedros like me and please guys choose someone else next time. After I returned Laurie assured me that I would never have to do that again. So now I’m back with my favorite girls and in my place of honor in the kitchen.

You may have guessed by now that Lizzy is an eleven-year-old silky terrier mix, Bella is a four-year-old mini Yorkshire terrier and Maya is a one-year-old Belgian Malanois. But did you figure out that I’m not who I seem to be? I am the resident coqui who lives in a crystal vase in Laurie’s kitchen. You can read about me in an earlier post and see pictures of me in my vase.

Oh! Don’t let me forget to mention Heather my newest favorite volunteer who sports a drawn on Luigi mustache sometimes to liven up the kitchen work place. And she’s a “Real” girl.

Thank you Bill for letting me do the blog — Pedro, aka Laurie.

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Mañana – The Fifth Time Zone

October 5th, 2009 ·

Sometimes I think we live in the fifth time zone. At The Rainforest Inn the housekeepers have us on a schedule. We wish we had them scheduled around our guest’s breakfasts, check-ins and check-outs. On our schedule today is today, on their schedule, today is sometimes mañana. The guests want their breakfast today not mañana. Their rooms need to be ready for check in today before they arrive not mañana.

I hired a mom and her daughter. Both of them part time. I figured between the two of them somebody would show up when I needed them, today. Not mañana, after I have completed their work. You’ve heard the old saying “all the good men are already taken”. Well, all the good housekeepers are taken too. Maybe they are living somewhere with all the good men. Anyway, it is fifteen minutes to nine today and I have 8 hungry people waiting for my gourmet breakfast (which should be served at nine today not 9:00 Mañana) and I am all alone. Normally, Bill helps me when I need it but he had to go to San Juan early this morning and is not here to help me. If I was into strangling the help, today would be their unlucky day.

Puerto Rico has a very laid back culture. That is one of the great draws of the Caribbean islands. But, I have to admit that when I depend on my help and they don’t show it doesn’t seem such a great feature. The other day neither housekeeper showed because the grandmother had a dental appointment. What?! And before that neither came on time because they had to go and buy some school supplies for one of their kids. “Oh”. I told them, ”My guests didn’t want to wait until 11:00 for breakfast so I went ahead and prepared it without you”. Tardiness is right up there with the no shows. Showing up at 8:00 a.m. to help with breakfast does not mean that is the time you set your alarm to wake up. Hence, mañana – the fifth time zone. Regaton is one of Puerto Rico’s latest cultural innovations and has become very popular stateside. Puerto Rico’s long-standing fifth time zone concept has taken a little longer to catch on.

We have tried everything here at the Inn to get the housekeepers to meet our schedule. We have scolded them and we have tried rewarding them. Wouldn’t you like $50.00 extra at the end of the month just for showing up on time? When that didn’t work it really surprised us! Holidays and the weekends are their free time, period. I will schedule them and even beg them to please come once in awhile on a Saturday. But they will not show and come mañana instead. I needed them Saturday of course, not mañana. Here in the islands (not just in Puerto Rico) the workers train their employers well. We don’t schedule them during these times anymore. Bill and I wish we could have grown up in a fifth time zone. Can you imagine never having to worry about being late for work or even showing up on the right day?

Fortunately, for us there are young people who have the mind frame and the freedom to take time from their regular life and graciously volunteer for a few months at a time, with only room and board as payment. And I do mean graciously volunteering. They work hard and do a great job too. They always show up and are on time because they live here with us. Can’t beat that. For the past year, Peter, one of our volunteers from the states who is now moving on with his life, was my best assistant cook (and always showed up on time and on the right day). He often did the whole breakfast himself to give me a break. It will be hard to replace him. He was always pleasant and my best worker and trust me I am not the easiest person to work for. Sometimes I can be a little brash and I have some perfectionism stuff going on, so I have been told.

As of today, I have given up. I’ll never ask either housekeeper to work on a weekend, holiday, today or even mañana, again. They are now free to live in the fifth time zone. ( I may regret this mañana) Now I no longer have my housekeepers or my assistant cook but I do have one of “the last good men out there”. Many thanks go to Bill, for all the times he let me drag him into my kitchen to help me with the breakfasts (which is my job not his) and didn’t complain, well maybe he did a little. Now if I could only get him to show up on time, could it be he may be slowly slipping into the fifth time zone too?

All and All I think I will survive. Every day I have the sunshine, warm, mountain breezes and the serenading song of the coquis here in El Yunque to remind me that this is just one of life’s minor annoyances. I’m afraid though, *-I sometimes feel the calling of the fifth time zone too. Mañana.

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To Be or Not To Be… Chlorinated

October 1st, 2009 · bed and breakfast construction

Ye Old Swimming Pool We have a huge ugly hole in our courtyard that’s big enough to bury a dinosaur, thanks to an old visit from hurricane Georges. Like Bill said in the previous blog, sometimes even a much needed project to make the place beautiful for the guests has to wait it’s turn. We have looked at this hole for so long we hardly notice it anymore, kind of like the mother who ceases to hear her child screaming every day while the rest of the world wants to pull their hair out. I’m sure the guests notice it though.

For over a year now we have been telling our guests,”Please excuse the huge hole in the back that used to be a pool, as we are waiting for the perfect weather and to schedule the workers to repair it”. Ha! How long can we really get away with that one, before one of our returnining guests calls us on it? Finally we have agreed on my idea, which is one we had discussed during our first year of work here, of making a natural pond with fish and beautiful aquatic plants in and around the water.

We will continue sending all of the bathing beauties to our natural swimming hole at the end of our hike for a swim and spa pedicure (by the shrimp), which is a whole lot more private and romantic than any ordinary pool could ever be. I know our dogs will love the natural pond on a hot summer day. It will be a lot easier maintaining it if the frogs, bugs and leaves that might possibly fall in don’t have to be removed every day and are just part of the new aquatic ecosystem. Also at this high elevation in El Yunque the pool would have to be heated in the winter and we do not have our massive solar panel project going yet either and the pumps and filters would still burn lots of electricity belaying our eco-lodge green foot print.

We do plan on putting in a solar heated hot tub outside beside the pond on the deck for the guests to soak after long hikes. It will have a view of the Caribbean on one side and the rainforest on the other. For our guests who enjoy swimming in a traditional swimming pool they have the option of renting Margarita’s 5 acre secluded estate home that we manage next door.

We plan to landscape our pond to achieve a serene and zen like effect. We will be building a thatched gazebo beside it which will house the hot tub. One side of the pond will be used for a waterfall that is the outflow from the bio-natural filtration system. The tranquil trickle of the waterfall with the solar outdoor lighting will give it a nice romantic feel and night blooming Jasmine will fill the air with a lovely scent. Outdoor lounge chairs will be scattered about for our guests to hang out there.

Most Inns and guests houses on the island have traditional swimming pools. We will be taking a risk by not having a pristine turquoise blue swimming pool on our web page as an advertisement like everyone else. Our Inn is a true eco-resort which shouldn’t have a pool with pumps, energy wasting heater and chemicals. We would prefer to spend that money on really nice linens and other amenities for our guests’ comfort.

Not to be…. chlorinated, no! To be a new home for fish, frogs and beautiful aquatic plants.

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Fixing the porch railing

September 16th, 2009 · bed and breakfast construction

The chalet had a porch railing all around it still even after the main house it was connected to was destroyed in hurricane Georges. That railing ended behind the chalet where the big porch over the old pool used to be. We have replaced the old scary rotten wood deck that was around the pool with a big new concrete sun deck. Taking the old boards off Later I’ll have to tell you about what we decided to do where the big old pool is.

Laurie hated that old porch railing from the day (four years ago) we started working on our rainforest bed and breakfast. She thought it looked like a horse corral (appropriate since there were horses on the property when we moved in that we had to find homes for). We’re a team but I convinced Laurie to give priority to jobs that didn’t involve tearing something down that was at least useable until some pretty major things were done first like hooking up the electricity, installing pumps in the cisterns, fixing the plumbing, and putting on a couple of roofs (it is the rainforest so roofs are important).

Laurie happily ripping off the old rail.

We have made the central part of our complex (where the chalet and the villa are) the priority — making it as nice as possible. Laurie found a picture in one of our many design books and she told to make the railing just like that picture. I took a few liberties and came up with a design which looked, somewhat, like the picture and was fairly easy to do. We have a nail gun that shoots galvanized ring-shank nails that have a coating of hot melt glue on them so that is my weapon of choice. The new “balustrades” are treated pitch pine 2X2’s with the lower end cut at a 45 degree angle as a water “run-off” and an interesting detail. Rail detail

The whole project came together very quickly. Laurie tore off the old 2X4’s and we fitted a top and a bottom 2X4 for attaching the new balustrades to. Then we marked out a good spacing (we chose 6.5 inches) which varied according to the space between the existing railing posts which like everything in this old house seems to be from a measurement system that didn’t depend on any crude instruments like levels or tape measures. New railing posts

Then I cut all the 2X2’s on the cut-off saw, adding the 45 degree detail on each end. We nailed them in place with the gun and had most of the front railing finished in one day. The next day I put the rest in place with the help of a visiting friend (Julio – now a skilled carpenter) and Laurie painted everything a dark gray to match the cedar. New porch railing

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Promoting Your Bed & Breakfast Using Social Media

July 4th, 2009 · b&b promotion

I was just reading Forfeng’s blog Twitter Marketing for Inns and B&B’s by Heather Turner which she promoted on her Twitter feed. Her advice is backed up by her knowledgeable S.E.O. techniques. The click-through rate you get if you do it “this way” and not “that way”. She talks about the ratio of re-tweets when you include a URL in your tweet versus lazy idiots like me that just talk about stuff and don’t bother to link to something really interesting which backs all that up. But after reading her ideas I did some rumination, casting my imagination one way and then another, leaning back in my chair, and a couple of seconds later, (actually I admit that it was before I finished reading her post), I realized in one word what happens when people follow this advice. That one word is, as my wise little granddaughter Taylor would say: “boring”.

I try to subscribe to every bed and breakfast inn’s twitter feed and read as many fellow innkeeper’s blogs as I can. And most of that material can be classed into three kinds of boring:

Talking about the incredible local attractions, the beauty of the paintings in the nearby museums, the cool country walks and other local attractions over and over ad-nauseam (repeat those keywords and phrases for “the google” who cares about what happens when someone actually tries to read your copy).
Listing room rates, descriptions of amenities and what’s so great about your place (things that belong on your website and not your blog).
Trying to be poetic and arty but not actually saying anything (or maybe I couldn’t understand what those posters were saying but I couldn’t take much more of some of them and had to un-follow their tweets and give up on that learning experience).

The average reader has the attention span of a hummingbird and the retentive powers of a clam (I went to journalism school too). But your blog is not for the average reader. So please try to forget about that copy writer’s truth and write from the heart using new and interesting subject matter. The demographics of our guests at the rainforest inn is 85% professional — doctors, hospital administrators, professors, scientists, lawyers — people who can tell when your dumbing down your copy and trying to trick them with flash and repetitive messages. Remember that they found your blog and they’re smart enough to find another one as soon as you annoy them with an ad about special holiday room rates or incredible access to nearby attractions. They already chose you because they know your inn is (in my case) deep in the heart of the El Yunque rainforest.

I also agree with Heather Turner about the importance of putting links in your twitter and blog posts. Don’t worry about the fact that your readers will click those links and go off somewhere else because your readers will remember who sent them to that incredibly interesting post in the first place and come back to you for your next week’s blog.

Please do your blogging and twitter posts about interesting subjects that you are passionate about. Forget about trying to increase your click-through rate or attracting more twitter followers. That will happen gradually as your friend “the google” leads people to copy they’re interested in. And those people will be the same ones who want to stay in your inn (you’d be surprised how many of my guests are S.E.O. professionals and internet mavens – who do you think is teaching me this stuff?). If all you want is high search ratings and click-through rates then by all means start with a headline and link: ”Candid photos of famous-pop-star-name nude here”. But don’t expect that to lead to more reservations at your bed and breakfast. If you want that then you will have to do the work. Wrack your brain for interesting copy. Talk over subjects for your next blog post with your guests at breakfast or with your spouse over dinner. Keep a notebook to write down ideas. Keep studying the competition and read as many informative blogs like that of Forfeng Design’s to get new ideas for blog posts. Take advantage of the new social media. My twitter feed and the facebook page for the rainforest inn help as well as this blog and our podcast.

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Making an Iced Coffee – Puerto Rico Style

June 11th, 2009 · food, puerto rico

Laurie’s daughter Cher has been visiting us from Maine. She stayed in our new suite which overlooks the stream and is just below the jungle suite. Her back porch is right on top of the jungle where our trail goes out to the waterfall swimming hole. She said that sometimes the jungle sounds were so loud (in the evening) that when she called her friends and family back in Maine they would ask her what the sound was, and later could always tell immediately where she was calling from. It isn’t just the coqui’s, of which we have eleven varieties all with distinctive notes to their calls, but also the katydids which harmonize the cacophony. We also enjoy the calls of the night. My favorite is the Puerto Rican screech owl (a pair lives in the tree a short distance away). The screech owl call sounds like a raucous chattering monkey.

Puerto Rico Style Iced Coffee Frappe

Cher said that besides lounging in the new suite and going to the beach with her mom her other favorite activity was going shopping with her and stopping at Starbucks for a frappuccino. Cher decided that she wanted to make one here so she could combine her two favorite things, enjoying a frappuccino and lounging on the back porch with the jungle view. So the first thing she tried is brewing some fine Puerto Rican coffee, adding ice, and mixing it in the blender. It turned out nasty tasting so Cher asked Laurie to help come up with something that tasted like Starbuck’s secret formula. The first thing Laurie tried was some internet searches. She had no luck with that as the recipes didn’t achieve the flavor she was looking for.

Laurie said, “So then I got thinking that those small kioskos in the malls must use ingredients which keep and are easy to deliver and are simple to make. So I knew it couldn’t be fresh milk.” Laurie knew she had to start with strong coffee flavor as the coffee shops had that in abudance. It didn’t take her long to come up with the most delicious frappuccinos.

Her recipe:

Brew fresh coffee or use instant. If you use instant be sure it is an instant made for the Puerto Rican market (most cities have Nestle Puerto Rican style or get someone in Puerto Rico to mail you a couple jars). The Puerto Rican instant coffee is so much better that it makes all the difference. It can even be decaf with very little difference in the flavor. Use 3 3/4 cups cold water and about six slightly heaping teaspoons of Puerto Rico freeze dried instant coffee (or the same amount of chilled fresh-brewed espresso, double strength). Then add one can of sweetened condensed milk. This is the secret ingredient. Put plenty of ice in the blender, pour in some of your liquid and frappe away.

This summer we have been enjoying a tall glass almost every afternoon.

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Cheese Cake in Paradise

May 24th, 2009 ·

I knew what Laurie was going to write about for this week’s blog. I was home working. And when I’m home programming or web designing I know I’m also supposed to answer the phone but it does interrupt the whole process. Well Laurie called lots of times that day when she was out getting all the stuff we need for the day-to-day operations of our rainforest bed and breakfast. I look forward to her calls as a welcome break, usually, but when she calls incessantly it quickly becomes something less then a welcome distraction. So I knew what she was going to write. She didn’t know that it would be “Worth every damn bit of sacrifice to get a Cheesecake in Paradise”.

Did you ever want something so bad that you were willing to stop at almost nothing to get it? Well, that was me on Monday the day after Mother’s Day. I had a bunch of errands to do and in the process I got this idea in my head around noontime that I just could not and would not survive without a piece of cheese cake.

My last stop for the day was going to be Costco. They have great cheesecakes in all sorts of flavors ranging from amaretto to guava. The only catch was that I would have to buy the whole damn thing knowing that Bill only eats chocolate, Hu… So you can imagine my dilemma. I thought where else can I get a piece of cheesecake before I go to Costco? I remembered that the other day Bill and I had dinner at Chili’s and I ordered cheesecake and they did not have any.

This craving must have been banging around in my head since then, and no, I am not pregnant. Off to Chili’s I went and had a nice lunch and then I ordered cheesecake. I waited for what seemed an eternity to get that piece of cheesecake and the waitress returned empty handed.

“I am sorry,” she told me “we are out of cheesecake.” She tried to sell me another dessert but I kindly asked for the check and decided I would just have to go without again.

Finally found a slice of cheese cake

My next stop was Plaza Carolina to buy gardening supplies at Sears. Ah-ah they have a Chili’s there I thought. It was pretty far from Sears but I didn’t mind the walk as I kept my mind on my goal of a delectable piece of cheesecake. I ordered a piece as soon as I sat down at the counter and waited again for what seemed an eternity. The waiter in that restaurant also returned to my table empty handed. We are out of cheesecake today he told me. Or any day for that matter I wanted to say to him, I did not want to be polite any more, I just wanted to scream. I kindly declined his offer of another dessert and left. As I was leaving I was thinking to myself, most intelligent people would not return to the same franchise three times just to be disappointed would they? I was beginning to believe the Chili’s has no cheesecake and will never have it again. I thought next time I go there I will ask just to see what happens, but I will tell them I don’t really want it I just want to know if you have it. I figure that way I won’t be disappointed or feel like a fool for a fourth time.

On my way to Sears I remembered Starbucks was just around the corner and they have this lemon tart that I really like. I would get that instead I decided and maybe fool my cheesecake craving. When I get there they did not have the lemon tart but they did have cheesecake. Things were looking up. I was so happy I wanted to reach over the counter and hug the girll waiting on me but decided against it for fear they would have taken me away and locked me up in wherever they put crazed cheesecake cravers.

I savored every bite of that dessert and left Starbucks satisfied.

Later that day while I was in Costco, one of the was giving out samples at the end of an aisle as they often do. IT WAS CHEESE CAKE. Was I in the twilight zone? Do you think they knew I was coming? They couldn’t have. I never go there on Mondays. Anyway I tried a piece of their sample cheese cake and it was really yummy and I thought if I had had a little more patience I could have had my piece of cheesecake in paradise for free!

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Making a mosaic

November 1st, 2008 ·

My sister Indigo has painted most of the oil paintings which we have hung in the rooms. Some of the watercolors were painted by Laurie. Oil paintings are more durable than watercolors because the constant rainforest humidity doesn’t affect them as much with mold and the colors don’t fade as much. But mosaics are the most durable art form of all. Mosaics in Pompeii were dug up thousands of years later and still just as bright.

We decided to make a mosaic in our kitchen/living room/lounge. It wraps around the central post. We made it on plycem (brand name for a cement board product) so that Indigo could work on each panel, horizontal, on a comfortable table. She designed the panels so that when I installed them around the post it would look like the vines, sunset, waterfall, and other images wrap around the post. We glued the panels onto the concrete post using 3m 5200 and finished the corners with rows of carefully chosen glass mosaic piece.

It’s really a feature now in the room.

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A Rainforest B&B Blog – Puerto Rico

The trials and tribulations of rennovating a bed and breakfast while it is open and without damaging the environment or disturbing the guests.

Building A Fish Pond in the Rainforest

February 1st, 2010 · Fish Pond

Our Fish Pond Project

January 31st, 2010 ·

Who’s Who at the Rainforest Inn

October 5th, 2009 ·

Mañana – The Fifth Time Zone

October 5th, 2009 ·

To Be or Not To Be… Chlorinated

October 1st, 2009 · bed and breakfast construction

Fixing the porch railing

September 16th, 2009 · bed and breakfast construction

Promoting Your Bed & Breakfast Using Social Media

July 4th, 2009 · b&b promotion

Making an Iced Coffee – Puerto Rico Style

June 11th, 2009 · food, puerto rico

Cheese Cake in Paradise

May 24th, 2009 ·

Making a mosaic

November 1st, 2008 ·

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