Finally got some rain out of the Kona storms. An inch all at once. I got some peanut cuttings in as it was coming down and while it was still overcast in the afternoon and the next morning. It was nice to have the stockpile of mulch there to be able to mulch them as they were planted... Sally helped for a while, and then when the rain stopped I took her to show her around. Almost everywhere I went I was shocked at how badly the winds had whipped us. Lots of leaves were whipped off the young trees. The Mammee apple was snapped off just above the graft. (we stripped off the leaves and planted the cutting, sort of hopefully). The Langsat, though still intact, had been pretty badly ravaged. One of the Salaks was sort of blown over, but I was able to mound up the soil around it and stand it up again. All this in the very bottom of the gulch, where I would have thought they would have been safer. I guess they are really young, and perhaps turbulence down there is pretty bad... The plastic killing off the grass on the lower terrace there was really messed up.
One of the largest gliricidias by the upper pond had snapped off at the base, and most of the crown was in the water. We cut it up and pulled it out of the pond before the wind gouged (worse) holes in the liner and made cuttings out of the best truncheons, put them in a bin of water. Threw the twigs on to the cardboard by the brandisii hedge. Took some pallets down to the big pond and rearranged the plastic to keep killing off the grass.
Seems like Marshalls tarps have held out so far so good.
Last night we went into town to a free showing of the incontinent truth, (Lichen and I chased sandpipers and quails outside, because we are all too well familiar with the potential for global disaster) and saw our ula lena side neighbour, Becky, in there. She said she is buying a new machete to clean up all her blown down bananas, and that we are supposed to get some respite for the weekend and then another kona wind is supposed to rear up. Bring it on!