In every life a little rain must fall... it must... must fall... fall!!!!

ugh...

A regular weather pattern up here on the southern slope of Mauna Loa has the clouds build up around 11am after a sunny morning. During the winter, these clouds should bring afternoon showers, but often they don't. The clouds just hang there, and then mysteriously dissipate.

So here I sit for the fourth day in a row, knowing that the plants need water, and desperate for it to come from the sky instead of the tank. Watering the farm with water brought up the hill by truck costs approximately $150, every time. Rain costs nothing.

The last time that nature and I played this game, two and a half weeks ago, I gave in and watered. Fourteen hours later it started to rain, and we received 3/10ths of an inch before it stopped. While 3/10ths of an inch was more than sufficient for the plants, it was not enough to replace the water in the tanks that was unnecessarily dumped on the ground.

So here I sit, at 11:30am, and the cloud is building up, and the wind is coming from the correct direction, and the barometric pressure is dropping, but if it doesn't start raining by 2pm, I'll have to water today. Even as I start hooking up the pump, I will start to feel drops. Then when I am about half way through the process, there will be a little shower, but that will blow away.

sigh...

link | posted by Reese at 8:21 PM
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Since Sky arrived, our lives have become a bit busier than the more retired pace to which we had become accustomed to, here on the island. It seems that each day has to be scheduled just to accomplish all of the various runnings back and forth across the island to accommodate all of our appointments and requisits.

I have barely had the time to go read through the bloggers that I regularly visit, much less to do any creative mental masterbation. Although we are getting more tourism time; one of the reasons that we are so busy is that we have people to show around, so its not all just drudgery. I'd have to estimate that for the people who live here, showing around the tourist
(visiting friends and otherwise) must account for at least 20 percent of our time.


O yeah, and I know I never posted the mix from Wig Volleyball that I promised. I guess that I still haven't quite figured out the software because it didn't record what I did live (probably a good thing because I flubbed half the transitions) so I have to do it from scratch. I have a 'day off' today so maybe I'll do it... while I am sitting on the beach.


Aloha

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So I got to play some volleyball too!

We will create a yearbook with all of the pictures to keep at the volleyball structure. I will try to make good on my promise to post my mix in the next couple of days.

Labels: Faeries, volleyball, wig volleyball

link | posted by Reese at 9:58 AM
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Ah, the second weekend of the year, and time for the 6th Annual Clothing Optional Wig Volleyball party and fundraiser at the Banana Boyz' Isle of You farm. (That should be enough keywords to make the search engines happy.) Visit the Isle of You Hawaii

Unlike previous years, when the Wig Volleyball party extended past daylight and volleyball play into night, this year the fire dance troupe 'TransFire' will be taking over the party at dusk. So it will really be two different parties, bumped up against each other. From 2pm to 6pm, Wig Volleyball will charge a $1-$10 donation at the gate. After 6pm, the fire dancers are charging $15 at the gate; they will have their own Djs, etc., and will be taking all of the proceeds from after 6 for themselves.

Tolver is staying over there with Sky tonight so that he can help with setup. Ill be going over early tomorrow, myself. I'm not quite happy about doing a lot of work to help the fire dancers make money, especially when I feel like they are crashing our party, but we love Kelly and Normand so we will do whatever we can to make the event fun for everyone.

I have put together a couple hour set, just in case they need a DJ to fill in. The last time the Transfire group had a party at the Isle of You, they didn't have their shit together when they opened the gate, and I ended up DJing for over an hour (completely unprepared) while they floundered. Sigh. Supposedly there will be a sound system there before the fire troupe takes over, if the event needs me to spin, I will at least be ready this time.

Here's my set list, I will try to make a recording of the set, and post the mix in a few days.
DJ Clive$ter - The Surface of Saturday Night
The Automatic - Monster (De Rango Remix)
The B-52s - Wig (Reeseroni Remix)
Roryskoop - Poor Leno (Jakarta/Roryskoop Remix)
Hawaii - Pure (Fledglyng's Dirtier Remix)
The Doors - Hello, I love you (Adam Freeland Remix)
The Police - Walking on the Moon (Roman Flugel + Delano & Crocker Mash)
Tiesto - Driving to Heaven
Zoot Woman - We Won't Break
Persephone Bees - Nice Day (Chris Cox Remix)
Roger Sanchez - Elektro (The Cube Guys Delano Rmx)
Alex Gaudino Feat Crystal Waters - The Whistler Destination Calabria (Claude Vonstroke remix)
Moby - Extreme Ways (DJ Tiesto Vocal Mix)
Leftfield - Afro-Left (Leftism remix)
Paul Oakenfold - Southern Sun
Orbital - One Perfect Sunrise (Reeseroni Sunset Mix)


See you there!

link | posted by Reese at 9:47 AM
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I skipped out on Blogging for a couple of months; too much going on in our real world, and too little ego to feel like writing about it. Still, I figured I should check in, and let people know that we are well. We had another fun holiday on Big Island, although we are saving our energy for the Banana Boys big Wig Volleyball event on the 12th, before we call the season quits.

We are very happy to have him around, although he is spending much of the week at the Isle of You farm. The Banana Boys have more work for him than our farm does, right now, and there will be more opportunities for making new friends and contacts on that side of the island.

I have unconsciously kept myself from looking forward at 2008. I think, instinctually, I have been shielding my psyche from what must lie ahead for the world. Will Big Island be far enough away?

Here are some links to get the paranoia rolling:
http://zeitgeistmovie.com/
http://rjr10036.typepad.com/proceed_at_your_own_risk/2008/01/the-devil-wears.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VxQuPBX1_U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqxmPjB0WSs

Assume that I will post more, although I may be slow getting restarted. Funny, the blog has had more daily traffic since I stopped posting than it had while I last was. Thanks for visiting.

link | posted by Reese at 11:30 AM
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