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Here we come! Container is 99% loaded and the one-way tickets have been purchased! After thirty years in this house, we'll find ourselves at home in Puna on Friday. It's been quite an adventure, but thanks to the people here on Punaweb, the journey has been much easier. Many of you might not know us, but we've been here, quietly since we discovered the site four years ago. Our bamboo shack is now mostly finished and we look forward to sharing our home with everyone as soon as we're settled. Aloha, Ralph & Ed.
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Bon voyage and welcome to Puna!
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Well we know where the next Puna party is going to be.... at Ralph and Ed's house!!
Welcome to Puna and paradise!
Royall
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and your little babies are waiting for you...
Hey, you guys are right on time for BLACK & WHITE night on FRIDAY!!! November First Friday is Black & WhiteNight, and is one of the times HIlo is out & about! (What better things do you have to do that night??? SLEEP??? plenty of time for that on the plane ride over.... )
See you there (I heard that there may be a very familiar Cruella De'Ville out & about....)
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Welcome! Look forward to meeting you!
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Thank you all for the good wishes. Royall, it may not be the NEXT Punaweb party, but we'll do our best to make that happen! Still have rose paper on the bamboo floors- I left the house in February and haven't been back since. Once we get everything cleaned up we look forward to hosting a great party!
Carey, thanks for holding our palm babies. Black and White Nite sounds great- just hope we have the energy to go back into Hilo the day we arrive! It's going to be so nice to finally be home, I may not want to go out for weeks, with the exception to Pam's to pick up some dirt (you offered when we met in the Walmart parking lot! How are the new joints doing, you two?)
Seriously, does any one have a suggestion or a recommendation for some movers to help unload our container? It's a bit embarrassing, but our 20' container has very little air inside: we had a very good friend pack it and it is FULL. The help we will need is with the very heavy pieces, namely our table saw and tool chest. We can do it, but some professional movers would make it easier.
Looking forward to seeing and meeting you all. Aloha!
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welcome to the neighborhood...hey guys you'll be able to make it to our next international cooking event...make sure you reply on the evite that was sent out...
Noel Morata
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Ralph and Ed, I am so happy to hear that you are really coming to the island full time! Yahoo! Do come to Black and White Night...you won't be sorry. A bunch of us are having dinner at then new Ohana Cafe @6:30 that night, if you want to join us send me an e-mail and we will add you to the reservation. That goes for anyone else who wants to join our party.
Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany
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Welcome and congrats!
In the past I've used Big Isle Moving & Draying for local moves, because they charge a bit less. Some of their guys are good and one or two are not so good. Normally the company that picks up your container at the port and brings it to your property also unloads, and charges by the hour for the entire thing ... you are not transporting your own container, are you? So that's a starting point.
Professional movers charge by the hour whether they are standing around or picking things up, in my experience, so unless your heavy pieces are right there when they open the container, you might as well get them to whisk the stuff out of the container.
I never had the option to use the movers for a partial unload, as the container transport needed to be done in one trip, both ways. They bring the container, unload, remove container ... unless you have bought the container. So I'm not understanding the whole picture of how you have planned this.
Note: on the California side we had Matson do the container drop off and pick up, while we hired mover friends for packing the container only, but on the Hawai'i side, Matson did not offer delivery to our site. Young Brothers brought the container into port and it was all on us from there.
I see there a couple new to me local movers in the phone book. One is Express Movers, who say they beat any estimate and no move too small. 557-0300. Also Town & Country Moving & Storage at 969-1911,
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Thanks to you Noel, Paul, Devany and Rich. Ed said no way are we going to want to go out Friday- we'll still be hugging the bamboo poles that are our house for a few days! I'll still work on him about it, but we will be rolling around in cinder for the first few hours (the Pope kisses the tarmac, we roll in cinder..... wakes up the skin!) I'm sure Glen will appreciate this homage to Pele!
