Yesterday I took my mother back to the airport. Then I headed out to the Green Waste facility only to find that their tub grinder had attempted to swallow one too many rocks, and so accordingly the loader had taken the day off and was not available to fill up my pickup truck.
I chatted with the guy who picks over the pile of garbage over to the side, and got his okay to grab a few coconuts out of the pile, and also a nice sheet of plywood that had been a packing case...
Then I thought, well shit, I don't want to go home with an empty pickup, but it was still early and I didn't really have anything in mind, then I thought, "Well, now I have the extra piece of ply for the workbench, I guess I'll go buy that bench vise that would have been so handy on 8 million occaisions in the last two years, and maybe buy some paint to paint the plywood I bought yesterday for the Ginger Terrace flooring".
So, I bought the vice, and then realised, remembered how expensive and toxic paint is, and accordingly remembered that there is a paint recycling facility in Puunene where you can get free paint.
So there I went, and the nice old chook that supervises the work day program told me to help myself, and I did. I got about 10 or 15 gallons of different types of latex this and that, including a gallon of latex primer. I don't know much about paint... but figured that out of 15 gallons I should get enough that works well enough to, that Also scored 3 bathtubs and a solid tool handle.
The bathtubs will be catch tanks/filters in greywater recycling (the barn greywater still stinks) and water chestnut ponds... one we might even make into a bath, as it is a solid cast iron type that should clean up well.
On the way out I stopped at the HC&S sugar festival, looked at the displays of period photo's and watched some young hapa boys carrying a pig around a imu for a bit. Heard someone talking about feeding a lion at 11 o'clock, and my curiosity was piqued, but then I realised that it was only 9;30am and that I had better go home and take care of shit.
In the end I made Lorinda help me prime the plywood, managed to do most of it undert the cover of the shed, manouvering plywood around dead and dormant tractors and other junk.