This week we began the first phase of our construction project. We will be building a new room addition to the main farm house, but the first phase consists of removing a window (that will be used in the new room) and sealing up the wall that it comes from.


Tolver really learned a lot when he was working construction and remodelling back in Texas, and we had the whole first phase done in 7 hours, spread over two days.


I got butch with the nail puller!


Abracadabra: its a wall!

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The arrangement includes a couple White (green) Ice Protea Repens, a Mint Julep Banksia with kelly green, rick-rack leaves, a High Gold Leucospermum pincushion, and several different green Leucodendrons.

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Again with another one of those weeks where I didn't find anything to talk about... or more correctly, I didn't find any energy/motivation to talk about. Bob flew to the mainland; he'll be back tomorrow. We carried on business as usual. Saturda was a friends birthday, so we stayed for dinner in Pahoa after volleyball. Probably the most interesting part of the week was also the most mundane. Tolver got a new cell phone, and we got to go through a week of hell to figure it all out and get all of it working the way he wants it. Cell-phone, Camera, Music Player, proprietary headphones, computer cable. The only thing easy was the Gigabyte memory chip (the size of a fingernail.)
The Camera was set up to upload its pictures to the internet by default: unacceptable!
The proprietary earbuds had posts that make them useless under our circumstances: unacceptable!
Etc, etc, blah blah...
See... mundane stuff, not worth talking about...

Here are some pictures from Juan's birthday dinner:

I'm only just now noticing the great painting that was above our heads.


Juan is on the right. Cool flowers in the forground.

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It was one of those very average weeks... Things happened, but nothing out of the ordinary. The days went by, and we did the normal things that we do on those days... The most remarkable things was the half inch of rain... I didn't even come across any new pictures to post to make things more interesting. I woke up this morning feeling hung-over (for no good reason), and unable to connect to reality...

Hopefully more to come, soon...

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