12-01-2005, 10:38 PM
What a great day here in beautiful Hawaii!!
I met a new couple today from the island of Maui. They just relocated here to the Big Island, just a few miles south of my place and came over to see the bit project. Lovely couple and I hope we will be seeing more of them.
The buys on the construction job have continued to work hard and I was inspired to buy a bunch of chicken and have a good old impromptu afterwork BBQ. It was great. Hazen's ladyfriend Abby did kitchen duty and made a lovely salad (with lettuce from our own garden), rice and some fresh green beans.. yum. I got to play with the bbq (plug it in, put on the chicken and kielbasa, put on the lid and come back in two hours!!). Everyone chipped in work or beer or something and we had a fine time. Conversations seemed to really get interesting tonight and we are all planning a mass trip to the boiling pots this weekend just to have fun.
The house is coming along amazingly now. Trim is finished, the place is caulked, fireplace is nearly installed.... plumbing is roughed in, electricians seem to have their stuff well under way and drywall is being delivered tomorrow. The excavator we hired (this is #2) took a thousand dollar deposit and has postponed coming for four days now since he first promised to be here.
What is it with these guys? I am left very disappointed with the ethics in situations like this, but have to take a deep breath and be patient. This is, after all, paradise!
Thanks to all my guys and their friends/partners/families for all they do for me here. It is really happening now... it looks like a home instead of a house almost.... can hardly wait for the next weeks to pass.
Aloha, Pam
Just another day in P A R A D I S E !!
I met a new couple today from the island of Maui. They just relocated here to the Big Island, just a few miles south of my place and came over to see the bit project. Lovely couple and I hope we will be seeing more of them.
The buys on the construction job have continued to work hard and I was inspired to buy a bunch of chicken and have a good old impromptu afterwork BBQ. It was great. Hazen's ladyfriend Abby did kitchen duty and made a lovely salad (with lettuce from our own garden), rice and some fresh green beans.. yum. I got to play with the bbq (plug it in, put on the chicken and kielbasa, put on the lid and come back in two hours!!). Everyone chipped in work or beer or something and we had a fine time. Conversations seemed to really get interesting tonight and we are all planning a mass trip to the boiling pots this weekend just to have fun.
The house is coming along amazingly now. Trim is finished, the place is caulked, fireplace is nearly installed.... plumbing is roughed in, electricians seem to have their stuff well under way and drywall is being delivered tomorrow. The excavator we hired (this is #2) took a thousand dollar deposit and has postponed coming for four days now since he first promised to be here.
What is it with these guys? I am left very disappointed with the ethics in situations like this, but have to take a deep breath and be patient. This is, after all, paradise!
Thanks to all my guys and their friends/partners/families for all they do for me here. It is really happening now... it looks like a home instead of a house almost.... can hardly wait for the next weeks to pass.
Aloha, 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!"