Author Archives: vickydurand

September 25,2023 Welcome to Blog #34-two days late It is FINALLY happening! Ten large crates of my “stuff” were delivered Thursday afternoon by Sam at Redo Trucking. Sam is the man who brings in all the food and materials for the Hana Hotel and Hana Ranch. His biggest truck could only bring half the loadContinue reading “Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #34”

September 9, 2023Welcome to Blog #32 It has been a busy and productive week. Jit arrived last Saturday morning and while here he helped me with a lot of tree trimming and also planted a small ti hedge at the entrance to the driveway. We also had some planning sessions for our next planting inContinue reading “Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #32”

September 2, 2023 Welcome to BLOG #31 WOW, this seems like a milestone. To think it is also the last official weekend of summer. Already I see the days getting shorter, cooler winds, and day light running a tad latter in the morning. And, It has been another week that has come to end veryContinue reading “Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #31”

August 26, 2023 Welcome to Blog 30!! seems like a milestone………. Almost hard to believe this is documentation for so many weeks here. Each week has been a wonderful rewarding and on going challenge. It reminds me of our early camping days at Makaha where we communed with nature. After mother built the house itContinue reading “Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #30”

August 12, 2023 Under the circumstance here on Maui this is an extremely difficult blog to write. My activities here seem almost meaningless with what has happened and is still happening in Lahaina-armagenden. From what I hear on the news on the death toll is not even close to reality. The terrible devastation and lossContinue reading “Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #28”

August 7, 2023 Welcome to Blog 27 It has been a grand and glorious week starting last Friday when my daughter Marcie arrived in Hana and we met them at Hana Farms for salad and pizza. This was the beginning of many fun activities. I covered Sat. lunch in last blog. My architect Mireille andContinue reading “Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #27”

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 haveContinue reading “Vicky Durand’s Adventure Post #26”

July 22, 2023Welcome to Blog 25 This has been a wild week with all sorts of unknowns and surprises. As for the hurricane warning we prepared for the worst, but luckily the hurricane turned out to be just a tropical storm with breezes and rain. Chris did close up the back room on the agContinue reading “Vicky Durand’s Adventure Blog #25”