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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gene, you still there?
  • Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 12:50:35 -0700


Gene is on vacation for another few days.

Ha! That's a good an alibi as any, I suppose.

We geezers don't do excuses. We just do what we do. We are empowered by geezerhoodism. Yeah!

Yes, vacation it was. Two weeks of perfect weather, great hiking, waterfall searching, volcano wowing, historical site browsing, serious fish ingestion, new brew research.

There are many good homestead sites on The Big Island but a set of unique conditions to sort through. Lots of shacks with million-dollar views and good growing conditions including plenty of rain on the windward side of the island. Domestic water supply is unique; more than half of all rural homes have catchment systems, collect rainwater and runoff from the hills. A cornucopia of fruit almost too good to believe but real--at a farmers market we saw stuff that looked inedible but turned out to be delicious, including apples that look like tiny finger squash and red plum-like orbs with tendrils.

And flowers. Superlatives fail. Bougainvillea thirty feet high in trees. The botanical garden just north of Hilo gulped camera card memory space like a starving man at a banquet.

More later.







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