Another Win for the Boston Red Sox Again

Another night, another win. This time it was 6-1 or something like that. We are easily in first place.

The lads will all be invited to St. John in the fall, after the world serious.

No mention of closets here

There will be no mention in this forum of the closet I just built. You'll have to look elsewhere.

This forum is usually about the St. John Yacht Club.

Building a closet today

Today is the day -- actually the day before the day. I cleaned out the closet yesterday, and today we will be going through all the stuff and throwing bunches away. A closet, as we all know, gets as full of stuff as it is big.

Poigt

This post is about a poigt. A poigt is an imaginary solid, like a u-shaped block at the top, but turning into three round legs at the bottom. An optical illusion. Naturally, Captain G. Piecost can draw one. As with a potrzebie, a poigt came out of Mad Magazine. And in a few months, a search for poigt will produce this post.

Read The St. John Source for info about St. John

This article was in The Source recently. About the Constitutional Convention.

'Native' Definition Tweaked by Constitution Committee
by Lynda Lohr

St. John resident Paul Devine stalks out of Friday's meeting.
June 13, 2008 -- A Constitutional Convention committee tweaked its definition of a V.I. native Friday, adding the word "domiciled."
The definition now reads: "A Native Virgin Islander shall be defined as any person born or domiciled in the Virgin Islands prior to 1927 and who was not a citizen of any other country or nation and any person who is an offspring of parent or parents born or domiciled in the Virgin Islands prior to 1927 and who was not a citizen of any other country or nation."
The change was made by the Citizenship, Virgin Islands' Rights, Environment and Cultural and Historical Preservation Committee of the Fifth Constitutional Convention. Remaining unchanged is the provision, "or any person born outside the Virgin Islands to native V.I. parent or parents while that parent or parents was studying abroad, employed abroad, or in active military service."
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The year 1927 is when V.I. residents received citizenship from the United States. The change came about to include people living in the territory but not born in the Virgin Islands when citizenship was granted.
Meeting at the Legislature building on St. John, the committee also upped the number of years for people to be considered V.I. citizens from one to five. About 20 people attended the meeting.
While most of the delegates favored including a definition of native in the constitution, former Gov. Charles Turnbull begged to differ.
"It creates a hanger on which to hang discriminatory legislation," he said. "I see icebergs ahead for this ship."
Turnbull is a veteran of five constitutional conventions.
St. John resident Paul Devine, who has drafted a constitution himself and given it to delegates, opposed inserting any native definition.
"Why would one segment of our society be included in the constitution and not another?" he asked.
He later walked out of the meeting after former Sen. Adelbert Bryan, who serves on the committee, harangued him for his constitutional efforts.
"I take offense to Mr. Devine writing a constitution," Bryan said. "Who gave him the right to write for us?"
It went downhill from there, with Bryan continuing to reproach Devine, Devine yelling at Bryan, Delegate Stedmann Hodge standing up to chastise Devine, and Devine stalking out of the meeting.
"Goodbye and good luck," Devine said as he left the meeting. A handful of other St. John residents followed.
Devine was one of three people testifying at Friday's meeting.
Natives are simply people born in the territory, said St. John resident Myrtle Barry.
"Taking it further gets it complicated," Barry said. Although her parents were not born in the Virgin Islands, Barry said, she was.
Lorelei Monsanto sided with those who want the native Virgin Islander definition as it currently stands.
"This is about the Virgin Islands and about my future," she said.
People born or domiciled in the Virgin Islands before 1927 are a special group of people, said Delegate Gerard Emmanuel.
"They are charter members of V.I. society," he said.

I built a sky hook

I built a sky hook yesterday. It holds up a swing in a deck area with no roof. How did I do it? Magic. Some 4x4 stock, screws, bolts, and loads of talent.

St John Cottages

Here is a list of Cottages for rent on St. John. From the web site
St John Villa Rental.

1-Bedroom Cottages
Captain's Cabin
Catch 'n Keep
Coconut Cottage
Coral + Blue
Fishbone
In Harmony Retreat
Meritage Cottage
Siempre Azul
Tradewinds Cottage
Tranquility
Trinidad Charlie's Eco Cottages

2-Bedroom Cottages
Caneel Trailside Cottage
Carnival Beach House
Horizons Cottage
Louisenhoj
Woodrose99

3-Bedroom Cottages
Coconut Hill Cottage
Stone Cottage