November 23, 2024
I’m back in Hawaii. On the 18th, I got up at 3:30 AM to catch a 5:30 AM flight out of Phoenix. I landed in Kona (after a layover in Oakland) at 12:10PM.
The same two girls were there to welcome me with leis as have been there on every other trip.
After collecting my luggage, I waited out front of the airport sign by the terminal for my neighbor. He was going in to Kona today, so he said he would pick me up. Wahoo! That meant I was able to do a bit of grocery shopping for milk and eggs, etc.
We arrived at the property in Na’alehu around 5 PM. I wandered around the property and found that things were much the same as when I left in October.
The next morning, after breakfast, I took a better look around. Holowai street didn’t look like it had overgrown much at all.
The two wheelbarrows were both full of water, so it must have rained a bit.
The Holowai property also doesn’t look too overgrown.
My first task was to set up the fountain to attract my little feathered friends. I also set up the solar panels on the roof of the shed. One of the guave trees has a bunch of guavas on the ground under it. I gathered them all up so I could see if any new ones fell that might be edible.
Over at Ahi, things were a bit different.
The grass on the road in front of the property is getting tall again and there is some tall grass growing in the driveway.
The trees above also have grown downward and will need some trimming.
I used the weedeater on the grass in the driveway until the battery went dead. Then I used my clippers to cut down the overhanging branches.
The grass is also getting long on the Kona side of the driveway.
I found another battery for the weedeater that had some power in it and I trimmed the grass on this side of the property.
On the 20th, I took a look at my plants at Holowai. The Tomatoes have grown and produced since I left. I watered them to help them along.
The carrots and onions are still growing – slowly, but still growing!
Back at Ahi, I started trimming the grass at the top of the hill at the front of the property.
I borrowed my neighbor’s lawnmower and mowed the grass on the road leading to the property,
And directly in front of the property.
I hung around until after dark to see if the solar lights on the signs worked.
They did!
The next day, I began gathering up the guavas I had put in various places and put them all in the hanging basket in the kitchen.
Then, I took some of my dirty laundry from my last trip, over to my neighbor’s place. Someone had given him a washing machine and a dryer, so I “volunteered” to try them out. the machine washed the clothes, but during the spin cycle, it was jumping all over the place – obviously unbalanced. So we stopped the cycle to balance the load inside the machine, but the lid was locked and would not unlock. Only by unplugging the machine and getting it to totally reset, did the lid unlock. I took the clothes out and brought them over to Ahi and hung them up to dry inside the bungalow.
After hanging up the clothes, I went up to the road, and saw this rainbow. It was a full rainbow from ground to ground, and it even had a double lighter one above it!
This morning, as I was eating breakfast, Bert and Ernie came by for a bite to eat.
They stopped in yesterday afternoon and sat on the handrail, but when I got up to get my phone to take a picture, they vanished!
Today, I didn’t get up, and they proceeded to eat at the feeder before flying away.
TTFN
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