Sunday morning I showed Tim around the farm pointing out activities that we might be involved in and try to give him some bearings. Found a "vine ripened" Monstera deliciosa that is chilling in the fridge right now. Also harvested another pineapple form near the barn garden...
Then we did some work in the nursery, moving some large pots out of the middle space into a "hardening off" environment and started moving the shelving into place. Unfoturnately, I think we need another piece to properly assemble the shelves, so we postponed that until I raid Joan's once more and did a little housekeeping up there. Got Tim to sift out all the crap from the potting mix that had accumulated on the floor of the nursery and we prepared some trays of little pots for planting...
Then we solar cooked some pumpkin and had lunch...
Rather than make him work all day on his first day, we elected to take him over to the sunny side of the island. We stopped for a dip at Makena landing before pushing on to the fishbowl. Welcome to the tropical wonderland!
On the way home we stopped at the abandoned Mac grove in Wailuku and harvested maybe five pounds of nuts in about 20 minutes! They are on! We will probably go back with the pickup and some five gallon buckets and glean until we are challenged by someone this week! Today we have Justin and Tim on board, so I think we are once and for all going to attack the annoying berm between the barn and the barn garden and really roll out the pinto carpet...