Welcome to Adventure Blog #122
This is going to be a short one, but want to let you know we survived two horrendous Weeks of storms and a very challenging time. Today is sunny and beautiful and things are drying out thankfully.Such a relief when it seemed like it would never stop raining.
Most of Hana was out of electricity for six days or more. The two markets were closed and the Hana road was also closed to tourist. Being off grid I was fine in that way. I just had to start the generator from time to time to keep everything going.
My neighbor Karen had a French visitor, Marilyn, and they were having candle light dinner parties for us-the storm orphans as she called us. Dr Krista, our vet, had a lot of food that was defrosting and Marilyn made some delicious dinners and we had a good time in spite of things.
Here at Koali Niu Only three coconut trees were laid on their sides and had to be replanted. I was very lucky as some parts of Hana were devastated with many trees and small buildings ripped apart and trees uprooted.
Most all of my banana trees survived and we harvested a big bunch this week.
The floor is now down in the tent and the beds are set up-finally.Now I am thinking about the landscaping and the final touches. This is the fun part….
I am in the middle of refinishing a trunk so am going to close to work on that project.
We continue working on the web site Koaliniu.org. It will be a continual work in progress as we tell more stories about the coconut-the tree of life.
Thanks for tuning in and wishing everyone a great week ahead. This red bull walks around the neighborhood and crashes through peopleʻs gates to eat their ti leaves. Luckily he doesnʻt come down this far.
This is a foster cat that loves the mule.
Aloha Nui,
Vicky
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