Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #52

February 24, 2024
Welcome to Blog #52

Thanks for tuning in. It has been a great week for moving forward with projects. Since there have been some hot days we have been working till dark. We did a lot of weeding and unfortunately there is a lot more to do. Kira and I are working on the hill which will be the back yard with the coconut grove. Starting at the bottom terrace we laid weed cloth and started raking down chips off of the rock wall. Over the next weeks we will continue this process upwards and hopefully have the ground ready for planting early April. The chipping crew left a lot of branches so in the process we are gathering them into small piles for controlled burns. We had two burns this week. The first burn was a little too big and started burning chips which scourched two small trees. We now make the piles away from chips and smaller. We have also had some rain which slows the process down.

We planted Hawaiian potatoes on the first mound of chips which acts as a burm diverting water away from the ag shed in heavy rains. I will not dig up the potatoes but they have beautiful purplish dark green leaves which cover the mound beautifully and can be used in stir frys. It has been raining off and on since we planted them which is a good sign for survival. You have to look very closely.

But the rain has slowed work down on finishing the roof and gutters. As usual it is a waiting game. One more week before my sink is cut and rewelded and Chris the builder will return to the job.

We are slowly getting the two raised gardens filled with soil for planting. The first layer is chips followed by different varieties of dirt topped off with Black Magic. I have to make a trip to Kahalui for the last ingredient and more seeds.

Kira is great help. Besides the work she is getting out and about and meeting people on her way to and from the beach.

The days have been very busy between all the projects, physical therapy for my shoulder and I have started a social media campaign on Tik Tok and stepped up Instagram posts in hopes of more book sales. I am making three a week that Kira is helping me with. I am going to try it for the next months and see what happens. I only have three more boxes of inventory left, but the black and white Amazon version is unlimited.
It actually is kind of fun.