Days go by and I wonder why I haven't written anything here. The blog is my home page, so I see it every time that I open my browser; sort of a reminder to write something, but often it is just a reminder that I haven't.
Sometimes I am reminded of the two Narcissus plants that were given to Tolver and I annonymously at our 20th anniversary party. We never really tried to figure out who gave them to us (they could have been from George Takei, who we had invited because he had just come out a couple weeks before) although I sometimes wonder if they were from someone who was actually at the party, judging our reactions. I bring it up because I wonder just how much a blog like this is narcissism. I mean, you have to really love something about yourself to think that other people would really care. Maybe I haven't been loving myself enough to post anything; maybe, sometimes, life is just uneventful.
I've considered starting a blog on the Anuenue Protea site to help me record the day to day happenings on the farm. Mostly it would consist of entries such as: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 - last night's rainfall unappreciable, watched the plants grow, Tolver dug 14 more holes, inventoried the greenhouse. I guess its worth a try, if for no other reason than to discover whether a more disciplined approach on one site will help me be more regular on this one.
My time on the computer recently has been devoted to evaluating new DJ/VJ software. Supposedly, now that I have THE LAPTOP, I will be seeking out more gigs, which will require that I have a lot of new tricks in my bag.

Tolver's 39th birthday is in a couple more days. Unfortunately I used all of my unexpected windfall on the laptop, so I don't even have the $30 to buy him the cool green lighter that he saw at the antique store that I had wanted to surprise him with. I guess he will see this post, and the thought will count. He really wanted me to have the laptop, because he got my desktop as the hand-me-down, so I gues that was his present.

Thank you to all my friends; I can see when you stop by from the the blog logs. Several of you hit the page yesterday. You make me feel loved, even when I'm down.

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According to Blogger, this is the 100th post to this blog.

Yes, in the last picture I am working on my new laptop on our freshly installed desk surface. It is still missing the molding under the lip of the counter top, to complete the front facade, and then all of the wood gets a few coats of stain.

We attended TrancenDance in Kealakekua last night (no pictures though.) We took the projector and ran the lightshow off the new laptop. TrancenDance only brings in about 20 people a week on average. But its a nice space, and they keep one of the big bay doors open to the sunset and then the night breeze. We will probably go again.

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hee hee hee Yeah!

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It has been sort of a slow month so far. After the couple months of the building project, we are settling back in to our regular farm work, but we are still kind of in recovery mode.

We went to a dance party at Kalani this past weekend, and I think that it was the first time that we actually had fun at Kalani. That's not Kalani's fault; we have just previously never been able to get into the vibe there. This time, friends from vollyball who live at Kalani invited us over for dinner after the game, and we stayed for the dance. Dinner was wonderful, the company was wonderful, and while the music was less than wonderful, I had a good time dancing.

We have been trying to find a source of gigs/events to participate in. While Tolver and I enjoy living "out in the sticks", we figure that it is about time for us to broaden our social circle beyond volleyball. There is another regular estatic dance event Kona-side (Kalani being Puna-side) that we are thinking of getting involved in. So we may go to that tonight.

We have also started Tribe accounts. Although I haven't had much motivation that direction yet. I think Tolver has worked on his some.

O yeah, the title of the post: striped feet... I have been playing vollleyball wearing a pair of Walmart sandles lately. They are very comfortable, and the rocks fall out as easily as they get in (unlike with tennis shoes), but we noticed the other day that I now have very distinct tan lines on my feet. Heh.

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Now that we have upgraded from our little ten by ten, it was time to revive the old room into a perfectly suitable guest room (just horrible enough that they don't stay too long!) The room had wonderful, shit colored walls, while we were there, thanks to the previous occupant.

Now its a very sunny room! Not only are the walls a gentle shade of sunshine yellow, the window faces the morning sun this time of year, so the effect is very bright and cheery for all you morning people. There is also a nice view of the pineapple patch, and uphill the protea. We think that we may replace the window with a sliding glass door, someday, and create another lanai to adjoin the eventual carport (whew!)

We are under mandatory water rationing now, even if we did get some rain yesterday. Actually all of the rain that we catch with our tanks is ours to do with as we please, and we might just be able to live off that even with such low rainfall. But, we share our water with over 3000 plants, so we purchase water to keep up with the demands of production and propagation; we've pretty much had to give up on the landscape plants, the strong will survive. Its clouded up, and acting like it did yesterday, hopefully that means more rain.

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