05-27-2005, 07:29 PM
Aloha.... haven't been here all week. The permit was "promised" for Wednesday. It's Friday and no permit. Now a holiday weekend. I am figuring Tuesday at the earliest.... sheesh.
We started excavation anyway. Two men and a backhoe put a bodacious trench in from the road for the underground electric. Ugh.. it is a pain and the LAST thing I wanted done, so of course they did it first. We have been in a drought for weeks so naturally immediately upon digging, it began to rain. Three more pieces of big equipment and they are grading the house site. UGH again. It started raining more so now I have a bunch of blue and yellow machines and trucks all over....and no workers of course. Good news is that although we have to remove about 10 feet at one side, it is all nice red dirt with no rocks . Some friends from Fern Forest have been coming and getting truckloads full. I am promised parts of harvest from gardens in return. Sounds fair to me.
Cabin is really coming along. The lower level is like that Geico commercial with the house that is too small... low ceilings and such but it is only a bunkhouse with a semi-kitchen. and open room for a table but it's cool. we are having fun with it.
The garden is LOVING this gentle intermittent rain. Everything is looking really alive.
Hubby will be here Sunday evening and can stay a whole month. Yayyyyyyyy, I have the honeydoo list all ready.
We hope to start the framing on the house next week. It will all be a new kind of adventure once that starts.
REQUEST: Please save this string for posts about moving to puna. It's my little corner and I appreciate your consideration. Mahalo!!!! Pam
Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!
We started excavation anyway. Two men and a backhoe put a bodacious trench in from the road for the underground electric. Ugh.. it is a pain and the LAST thing I wanted done, so of course they did it first. We have been in a drought for weeks so naturally immediately upon digging, it began to rain. Three more pieces of big equipment and they are grading the house site. UGH again. It started raining more so now I have a bunch of blue and yellow machines and trucks all over....and no workers of course. Good news is that although we have to remove about 10 feet at one side, it is all nice red dirt with no rocks . Some friends from Fern Forest have been coming and getting truckloads full. I am promised parts of harvest from gardens in return. Sounds fair to me.
Cabin is really coming along. The lower level is like that Geico commercial with the house that is too small... low ceilings and such but it is only a bunkhouse with a semi-kitchen. and open room for a table but it's cool. we are having fun with it.
The garden is LOVING this gentle intermittent rain. Everything is looking really alive.
Hubby will be here Sunday evening and can stay a whole month. Yayyyyyyyy, I have the honeydoo list all ready.
We hope to start the framing on the house next week. It will all be a new kind of adventure once that starts.
REQUEST: Please save this string for posts about moving to puna. It's my little corner and I appreciate your consideration. Mahalo!!!! Pam
Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!
I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"
hit the floor each morning, the devil says
"Oh Crap, She's up!"