Friday, May 24, 2013
rained from 3-6
Yesterday, we called Dennis Anderson who gave us a ride on F road to see if he would take us to Keaau to Ace Hardware. We both agreed that early morning around 7-8 would be best. He said that would be fine and said he would call when he was 1/2 hour away– he lives down the road, but has chickens so he needs the flexibility. We left our driveway around 8 am. He agreed to take us on several errands and wouldn’t take any pay.
I should mention that it was a lot of fun to sit on 5 gallon buckets with lids in the back of his ole’ truck and he went so fast and it was fun to face the wind (with my knees still facing toward the back of the truck), I laughed so hard. Mark said, just don’t stick your tongue out like dogs do. I wanted to try it, so I did which made me laugh even more.
We went first to Ace Hardware and bought 3 large blue washtubs, 2 shovels, one rake, one hand saw, and a 5 gallon orange rubbermaid water cooler. We also looked for hangers, umbrella, chairs but didn’t get them at Ace, Longs, or Food Land. Next, we went across the street to the farmer’s market with one of our new blue tubs. Only two days ago were we there, but we ate almost all we got from Wednesday’s trip. We got another bag of carrots, 2 cucumbers, cherry tomatoes and larger tomatoes, sprouts, apple bananas, and a plentiful pile of stawberry payays! After bringing the food back to the truck, Dennis wasn’t in the truck so we decided to look for a credit union and one was across the street. We opened savings and checking accounts with Dennis waiting so patiently. When finished, we went to the Kurtistown Post Office and turned in our application for a PO box. Then on to Wai Puna/Kurtistown Park to fill up water containers (8 one gallon jugs, a two gallon, and our new water cooler), and then on to home.
We got to our drive and unloaded everything and then talked quite a long while. Two cars drove by and said “He’s a good guy/hard worker”. Eventually we said good bye and started to take the stuff away from the road, starting with the tools, food, and the cooler. Our lunch was another raw salad with veggies and nuts.
After lunch, we brought the rest of the water jugs up and Rachel asked Mark if he would help put up laundry lines. We also put up the tarp over Max’s roof and now we have a shaded front porch and water catchment! Yay!
It started raining soon after we were in bed and I checked the tarp and barrels several times (I was so happy that we had rain the first night it was up, and thrilled that we were collecting water). I put barrels or tubs in each of the places (5) it seemed to be dripping.
Sat Morning, May 25
Woke in the morning around/after 7am. Happy to see water in our barrels and tubs. such simple pleasures :)! We dressed, packed our bags (with dead computer, charging cords, a bunch of apple bananas and 9 soft papayas) and headed to the community center to hang with people. A pancake breakfast was served–that is why we brought our fruit. they are locking up the center now, so gotta post this! Tonight there is a dance here at Hawaiian Acres…
Aloha Garden of Peace 