11-13-2005, 03:41 PM
Ika, so sorry you didn't make it. We even had a nice BBQ in your honor. We had a great time... 
Still hope you will be dropping by soon.
Yesterday we built another corral for animals. We will be moving the pigs so we can clean out their pen. The mud is so deep they can't get out of it. We need drainage. We are going to build a new cement bottomed pen next to the new corral. Then the new corral will be come a banana grove. We can let the pigs in when all the trees are harvested and we can feed the pigs extra bananas. Should work out.. we hope! It's always an adventure to figure it all out. So now, how to get the pigs the 100 yards from the old pen to the new pen? I am guessing don't feed them for a morning, then in the afternoon take a bucket of food, let them get their noses into it and have them follow me to the new pen. Hope it works.
In the meantime, we are still trying to get a Kahuna for a house blessing and topping off party. We planned, unplanned and did that over a couple times. Finally the roof is on so we can really do it now. Sheesh...
They tell me this is wetter than the last two years up here. At least we don't run out of water! I remember when I first came, lugging 3 gallon jugs of water to every tree in the orchard foe a couple months for about 6 hours a day. No such problems now. They are all looking pretty happy and we have our first naval orange. The garden is full o lettuce now as well as carrots. New potato starts are coming up. Squash is coming up again. Yayyyyyy...
I am a totally lazy slug today. Went to down and did laundry (I can't wait for my washer and dryer back!!!) and am now showered up, in my mammies for the afternoon, cruising the net and drinking tea. What a life!!!
Aloha.
Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!
Still hope you will be dropping by soon.Yesterday we built another corral for animals. We will be moving the pigs so we can clean out their pen. The mud is so deep they can't get out of it. We need drainage. We are going to build a new cement bottomed pen next to the new corral. Then the new corral will be come a banana grove. We can let the pigs in when all the trees are harvested and we can feed the pigs extra bananas. Should work out.. we hope! It's always an adventure to figure it all out. So now, how to get the pigs the 100 yards from the old pen to the new pen? I am guessing don't feed them for a morning, then in the afternoon take a bucket of food, let them get their noses into it and have them follow me to the new pen. Hope it works.
In the meantime, we are still trying to get a Kahuna for a house blessing and topping off party. We planned, unplanned and did that over a couple times. Finally the roof is on so we can really do it now. Sheesh...
They tell me this is wetter than the last two years up here. At least we don't run out of water! I remember when I first came, lugging 3 gallon jugs of water to every tree in the orchard foe a couple months for about 6 hours a day. No such problems now. They are all looking pretty happy and we have our first naval orange. The garden is full o lettuce now as well as carrots. New potato starts are coming up. Squash is coming up again. Yayyyyyy...
I am a totally lazy slug today. Went to down and did laundry (I can't wait for my washer and dryer back!!!) and am now showered up, in my mammies for the afternoon, cruising the net and drinking tea. What a life!!!
Aloha.
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!"