Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #50

WOW! Welcome to Blog #50 which hardly seems possible. FIFTY Blogs-Really!!! It has been a lot of fun and I hope not to burn you all out.

It has been a grand adventure week here with a lot of forward movement. Many friends say Wave Woman was an adventure on the ocean, but you are having an adventure on the land. And, YES every week is exciting between the challenge of moving as much progress as possible on this project and meeting so many wonderful and interesting people. The days unfortunately fly by way too fast for my liking. This has been the week of the new moon and I am so grateful for having this full filling and adventurous experience.

Last Sunday my first WWOOFER arrived. Kira flew right into Hana so she had the grand arrival with the breath taking views on the twenty five minute Mokulele commuter flight from Kahului.

Kira is a lovely Irish young woman from Chicago who absolutely loves cats. She has already bonded with some of them and loves Hana. She is super helpful and yesterday we made a big dent in the Hono Hono grass growing up through the squash plants. Kira loves gardening so soon we will soon get the raised vegetable gardens going in the back yard.

Yesterday Mikey started organizing and condensing a lot the haphazard construction materials which have been taking space and looking ugly in the back yard. He also finished the box for the gasoline generator which we use when there is not enough solar power. There are so many aspects to keeping things livable and they all need protection from the weather. One if the next steps is construction of the back patio. Then gravel will be laid and the rest of the garden will be planted-mostly in edibles.

Yesterday Ryan finished the last of the heavy work with the excavator on the hill. After some hand work, a few small controlled burns, uncovering the rock walls and smoothing out the chips the ground will be ready for the first coconut planting.

While the excavator was here Ryan dug up some rocks from previous jobs and placed them more correctly. I had been waiting months for that job to be finished.

Besides all the work we have had some lovely times this week. John brought some fish which he cleaned and cooked and we had a great fish dinner. Friday night is pizza night at Hana farms with great pizza, music, dancing and people watching.

I put some new rafters in the bunk house making a cat loft and they all seem pretty good. Haumana is such a happy dog and continues to be my shadow.

This is how we get some of our vegetables every Friday at the farmers market through Maui Hub. The market celebrated it’s fourth year this week. It was started during covid when no one wanted to leave Hana. It was buzzing with activity yesterday.

I just received some pictures from my last week’s book talk and power point showing. The talk was at the Oasis located on an orchid farm Hana Tropicals. I am grateful to have had such an appreciative audience. It has been the week of the new moon. I have felt a lot of gratitude this week.

Time to close and wish you all a happy year of the dragon. I happen to be a metal dragon so am hoping for big happenings. Wishing all of you the same and also a year of peace, happiness and good health.

Thank you for tuning in.

Aloha Nui,

vicky