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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

> > > > 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.