Vicky Durandʻs Adventure Blog #106

July 19, 2025

Welcome to Adventure Blog #106

Thanks for tuning in….It has been another busy week.

A friend Rob Kay from OAHU came out to experience Hana. Rob is an author and writes about healthy aging and other topics in the Honolulu Advertiser. I showed him around parts of Hana best I could in my present condition and he was pretty blown away. Also introduced him to some of my buddies out here and the days flew by. We visited Niketa Lewis who makes great food and picked up a zuccine lasagna.

We also went up to my friend Cherylʻs tea house and farm who is trying to build a house here in Hana. Rob helped me with some heavy projects so that was a big bonus.

On Wednesday I had an appointment for Mister Sad Eyes with a vet in Kula. Unfortunately Mister got away on the last cat carrier transfer so we visited Dr. Alan Kaufman catless. I now have to make another trip this next week. We leave early in the morning to avoid any possible road work and go out the very dramatic back Kaupo way. It is wild scenery looking up to the backside of Haleakala. There are herds of black goats and cattle along the way.

I had my hip and knee X-rays in Kahalui so I could avoid a Honolulu trip. Yesterday was a zoom meeting to let me know all looks good. What a relief to hear this news!! Now I can get back to selective gardening and bending.

Yesterday Walt the mower mowed a water hose. Luckily his wife Patty let me know so two hours later I checked to see that he had just gone merrily off leaving the water running. This would have drained my big water tank had I not checked and was able to shut the water off.

This morning was all about fixing leaks as James came to repair the hose and fix another leak.

I have been hearing from Cory that power usage was exceptionally high and something was wrong with the system. Sure enough the water pump had been running for several days and causing the system to be overused. Once again James was able to show me how to turn the pump off. It can get narly hectic out here.

Luckily I have some great help who usually will come to my rescue.

I was able to get a big bunch of beautiful mangos and am going to process them for chutney. Tenzen and Sarah have a farm and raise the best papayas ever. They were leaving on a trip so they just gave me all this fruit.

This has to be done soon as the fruit spoils quite fast so will cut this short.

I have been listening to a wonderful Audible book called Big Magic-Creative Living Beyond Fear by Elizabeth Gilbert. This book is so right on and I love it.

Will sign off for now. Wishing all of you readers a “Creative” week.

Aloha Nui,

Vicky