Follow along as I take the reader through the home-construction hand ringer, as we build our new home in St. Croix. From the permitting; the footings, concrete floors, bond and collar beams, cement block walls and pressure treated rafter lumber. To the exposed cypress roof decking; the cistern, rainwater collection system and solar collectors to make domestic hot water. Through the entire building process, to the last of the elastomeric roof coatings, the landscaping and more....
This fort, erected intitially by the Dutch, was completed (and named) by the Danish. Overlooking Christiansted Harbor, the fort was never the site of a battle, or challenged by an opposing force in it's 350 years as the sentinel of the city. 
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