Vicky Durand’s Adventure Post #26

Welcome to Blog #26

This is going to be super short as I have family here and am waiting on some old friends to arrive.

One of the best things about this week is the chipper was here Monday and Tues and the hau piles are now mountains of hau chips. The chips will have to be raked out in between the rock walls for the planting. There is still a lot of wood Debre to be removed by Bradley’s backhoe.

The patio beams are going up and looking super gorgeous. Chris is fitting them together with notching so there is no ugly metal bracing.

Bradley came yesterday and took the pile of sand up mauna so the front yard is looking better.

There are still two big piles of beams covered with a tarp that we need to look beyond. I had hoped to get the front yard cleared out of building materials for the blessing day, but no luck.

My daughter Rennie and her husband Billy were here for two nights camping with me and so nice having some family around. They hiked up the new trail to the pool and waterfall yesterday.

Saturday our very old friend from Montecito days Keoki Raymond came out with his daughter Melissa. When Melissa was three years old and the girls were five and six they all played together. Now they are all in their mid to late 50’s and had not seen each other over all the years. My step daughter Sarah (who had also not seen Marcie and Rennie for years) joined us and we had a wonderful reunion lunch at the Ranch House.

So, now this is going out two weeks late due to all the company and activity. I am moving on to Blog #27 which is also late.
It has been a whirl wind of fun and the next blog will tell about it.

Thanks for tuning in.
A hui hou,
Vicky