March 2, 2025
This morning was spent over at the neighbor’s property building a form on top of the gate column. I removed the 2 x 4’s from the second coumn that we were using as a guide, and used these as my form material and as legs to support the forms.
Then I removed the forms from the last wall caps I had poured yesterday. Yesterday morning, I caught the 6 am bus to Kona and went to the hardware/lumber store there and bought some straps to imbed into the concrete. I was a few short! After returning, I poured the caps on the last two corner walls.
Today, I built some short frame walls to go above the concrete/rock walls of the shower. There will be five sections of this semi-circular wall, and each section will be dominated by a window.
March 3, 2025
Back over at the neighbor’s property, Brian and I finished and supported the forms for the cap, and placed some rebar into the forms. We bent the upright rebar over to be imbedded into the concrete cap.
After pouring the concrete into the forms, we washed off the excess from the rocks along with any spilled concrete/cement. Then we loaded up the mixer to return it back to Hollowai!
In order to create a different look than plain grey cement, we added some concrete color to the concrete mix.
We also completed the rock work for the second gate column.
After cleaning up the mixer and putting everything away, we sat down to a great lunch.
Then back to Holowai to finish putting everything away.
March 4, 2025
Brian has removed the forms from the gate column cap.
Over at Ahi, I used the weed whacker and chopped down the grass at the top of the property next to the road. Then I removed the solar panels from the roof of the bungalow and secured the doors.
Back at Holowai, I wrapped up stacking the 4 foot long branches in a pile at the road to create a sort of a fence/wall. These are the larger branches that will not go through the chipper. I am using them to create a sort of a barrier or fence at the front of the property.
My single lone tomato is ripe, so I picked it and ate it. There are seven more little green tomatoes on the vines that will most likely die as I will not be here to continue to water them! Oh, well!
March 5, 2025
One last look from the ramp leading up to the plane at the Kona Airport. That is Hualalai Volcano behind the terminal!
And a look to the north/west at the airport control tower in the direction of Maui!
Good bye for now, Hawaii!
TTFN
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