Our neighbors, Gary & Ed are building a beautiful house off of the Red Road! It is progressing quite well and inside painting will begin next week! Gary says he is shopping for lighting and using mostly online sources.
We are off to the west side to pick-up a potter's wheel that I am buying used from a friend's niece. No, I have never used a potter's wheel before, but the price was too good to pass up! I have a couple of local friends who throw on the wheel. One very experienced and one somewhat new at it. So I will have lots of help!
Along with several others we placed an order for clay and glazes that should be here in about three weeks. Because of the clay weight, it must come across the ocean on a "slow" boat. LOL I have lots of clay projects to do, mostly hand building until I learn how to throw! Fun, fun fun...
Scott and I celebrated my 58th birthday with a day of activity and eating!
I thought this picture from the Tribune Herald was an interesting contrast of the old and the new...
On June 8th I start a canoe paddling class taught by the University of Hawaii. Eventually I hope to join a canoe club and compete. Of course, I will be on one of the "Masters Teams" 55+!
I paid $3.50 for two medium sized red peppers yesterday - at the Farmers Market! They are even more at Safeway!!! Is it that bad on the mainland? Can't wait to get the pepper plants in the raised beds!
Read more...Well we are finally off and started on the vegetable garden. We are placing raised beds in the street side landscape. Scott is building them (I am helping a very little...), but I am starting the seedlings. We know that pests and disease will be our biggest enemy, but have purchased some seeds from the University of Hawaii which are suppose to be more tolerant to pests and disease! However, at a sustainability gathering in the neighborhood yesterday, I asked which vegetables are most pest and disease tolerant and all I got were chuckles from the participants. It won't be as easy as AZ, that is for sure!!!
Making one's own bathroom vanity is an ambitious project, especially when it's your first time and you don't really know how! But we are about 75% done. We went with a bit of the island style, so it can be a little rough around the edges and still work!
We have completed the structure. Now it is on to the final finishes. We plan to skip trowel the cabinet walls with dry wall compound and then paint it the same color as the walls. We completed the cabinet doors a few weeks ago. They are framed in African mahogany (great job Scott!) with bamboo stick inserts. Finding the bamboo on this island was a real test of creative shopping!!! I am glad to say I finally found the bamboo, I just which I would have bought more! Anyhow,we are quite happy with the results! And hopefully the completed vanity will look as good!
Around 3PM today (Monday 4/12/2010) we heard what sounded like a whale breach! We ran to the ocean and sure enough it was a whale breaching. But not one, not two, but three! Two adults and one calf were taking tunes. In all they must have breached over ten time each! The adults were outstanding often breaching at the same time. We have never seen this type of breaching activity! Wish I had picked up the movie camera!!!
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