May 12, 2024
Spraying my vegetable plants with insect repellant wasn’t such a good idea.
It seems that the insect repellant is having more effect on the young plants than on the insects. They have all turned brown and are whithering up!
I grabbed some water and put it into my garden sprayer and tried to wash the plants, but I don’t think it did any good. DANG!!!
You can be sure that the word I used was not Dang!
In the meantime, I have started to add more layers of block to my corner walls for the “house”
I started with the corner closest to the kitchen gazebo.
And continued with the corner by the driveway.
This probably could have been done quicker if I had stayed and worked instead of going down to the ocean.
Fortunately, the draw of the ocean is stronger than the draw to work.
I can’t seem to get enough of simply watching the ocean waves
as they crash against the lava shelf and send plumes of water into the air.
Today, these plumes are not as high as they have been on other days.
Also, the swimming holes seem to draw me in!
But, eventually. I have to return and get some work done.
I borrowed a small electric chipping hammer from my neighbor and chipped out the rocks protruding between the corner wall and the column.
I also used it in the bathroom excavation area.
The work of laying up a few block and chipping out rocks along with going to the ocean has occupied me for a few days . . . but hey! I’m supposed to be retired!
While I had the electric chipping hammer, I took it over to Ahi and removed some of the rocks in the trench for the plumbing drain lines.
Friday May 17, 2024
Today, I took apart the lawnmower and found that there was one wire that came loose . So, I crimped the connector a little to help it stay on the blade terminal. This fixed it so I could do some mowing.
I mowed the grass on Holowai Street in front of my property. From the gates, down to the corner at Scott’s place (towards Hilo).
And the other direction towards Lorenzo’s (towards Kona)
Saturday May 18, 2024
To finish out the week, I set up some rough forms for the bathroom at Holowai.
While I was in the mood to do some forming, I set up some forms for footings for an extension to the gazebo. I did a bit of excavating under these forms for the footings. Then I used what 1/2″ rebar I had and installed it in these footings.
I had used some wood filler on my little kitchen table at Holowai. The other day, I took it over to my neighbor Scott’s place – he has a larger solar panel and battery system – and used his electric palm sander to sand the top.
Today, I varnished it.
TTFN
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