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...
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