Planted the Duku Langsat, the Mammee Apple, the TREC Canistel and two more seedling Canistel trees (eggfruit)and the Gnetum down in the gulch. Did some pruning and mulching of the pidgeon peas in Takako's food forest, and some clearing of the trail to the shower that is getting overgrown in pidgeon pea and sesbania. Sadly it looks like the Lalee Jewo has died off... I probably let the pidgeon pea cover get too dense. I am holding out some hope that it is just dormant, but it doesn't look great. Overall the rest of that planting is doing pretty good though.

Centipede attack

Well, finally I have been bitten by one of Maui's dreaded centipedes. Right at the end of the day, I was running the weedwhacker to clear back the brush on the side of the trail down to Geoff's cabin, aka the former schoolhouse. It was pretty well on dusk and I had just refilled the tank and reset the string, and I had taken off the helmet/faceguard/earmuff thing and put that on the ground as I did so, and perhaps the little critter had crawled in there at that time. Either that, or it might have dropped out of the guava I was clearing under, and crawled up my hair and into the helmet. Probably the former... At any rate, he or she delivered a great sting to the back of my head, about two inches from that spot that has no hair, whatever that's called. The crown?
Anyway, the sting isn't all that bad. No worse than a bull ant, though to be sure that is bad enough... I have a slight swelling, I suppose about the size of an Australian 50 cent piece...
Lorinda and LIchen are at a Suzuki concert in Kula so I have only you dear Blog to complain to.
Planted two B. Textilis and a Artocarpus odoritissimus today, over there by Geoff's cabin. Spread some compost around the Guadua's over that way while I was at. Mostly weedwacking at the edges though...

Well, of course, being Huelo, the prevailing explananation is that Mercury is retrograde, but whatever it is things have been pretty fucked up around here lately. I won't go into too much detail here, but our little cast of tenants have mostly been going apeshit lately. Or to Mexico. The reliably sane ones, thank the maker have been reliably sane.
The stage for all this madness is that with the rain event the other day, you guessed it, the phone went down! And then the screen on the computer died... Did I mention the little clip on the bottom of the truck not working and dropping parts of the clutch hydraulics all over the road?
Other than that things are fine!
Lorinda and I laughed about it one afternoon last week, when things had gotten about as out of hand as they ever have, and there was even talk of someone threatening my life, and our response to all these little disasters, was to shrug our shoulders, say, "yeah, yeah, whatever...", and go back to pushing wheelbarrows of woodchips or feeding the goats or whatever we were doing...

In the last 24 hours we measured 149 mm in the rain gauge. That's a lot of rain!
It appears that the sun is coming back out this morning, hopefully it isn't just a tease. 3 days of dark, overcast weather is enough!
I never did plant seeds or inge's yesterday, it was just insanity out there. I did clear away the molasses grass that had choked out the spill way of the pond in the bottom of the gulch. The pond still had a foot to rise before going over. I walked up the gulch to the kitchen and talked to Marshall for like 2 min, then wandered back and in that time the pond had filled and was overflowing massively.
The planting I did just upstream of the pond earlier in the month to try and make a silt catch was largely washed into the pond I think, although this morning I'll go down and get a better look.

The deluge has returned... A 3 inch rain event to finish out Oct, and still it comes down. I managed to get some cover crop seeds out in part of the noni paddock, but not the citrus paddock, before the ground got so wet that just walking out there is a muddy, compacting mess. The real reason is that the roosters are still getting loose and planting seeds would be just like feeding the chooks... I am going to see if I can catch them tonight and if I do I guess I'll plant that section tomorrow. If not, I may turn my attention to planting Inge's out into the long grass. Whoo-hoo!