A town trip yesterday in which I discovered the backroad through Cane fields from the dump to Hawaiian cement and the Kiawe lands. Cut about 30 minutes driving time out of the mission and meant I didn't have to set rubber on the Mokolele at all. Yay! I stopped at HC&S and got one of their permits to cut Kiawe and actually pretended to support all their nefarious activity..., also picked up some parts to work on the chainsaw and the tractor, and got another load of cinders so that propagation in the nursery can continue.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, Lorinda, Brooke and Susan were doing some prep work behind the chickens in the new food forest area (between the barn and the nursery...
If this is an area that doesn't want trees we should decide soon, because they're itching to go in, the coffee and the noni and the citrus to be just outside the backdoor of the barn kitchen so you can run out and grab a few for making goats milk yoghurt or whathaveyou.
Spent most of the afternoon resetting posts and putting back the gate that we took down to use for the goats, because sadly, on wednesday night we had some people come into the property and break into Mark and Jerise's cars. They stole Jerise's jewelery making supplies and trashed Marks driver side door... Jerise's partner is a 6'6" Hawaiian dude with connections though, and has vowed to find the perpertrators and bring them to justice. Still, we are going to see how well we can function with a locked gate. Still undecided about whether to do a key or a combination. Either way we will probably be replacing them regularly and it could get to be another expense, another hassle...
Oh I enjoyed very hot water, gravity fed in the gulch solar shower last night at about midnight. It actually has one small plumbing leak that we'll need to take care of, that Tim didn't find or want to find before he left, but at least he did most of the work to get it operational.