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  • From: "Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>
  • To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gene, you still there?
  • Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 21:55:17 -0500

Gene,
Did you get to walk through a lava tube???Did you see the bamboo that seemed
a mile high? Did you go to the southeran most tip of the island and see all
the "not in use" windmils and the trees growing at right angles from the
wind? Spent almost a month on the big Island in 2002 and you brought back
all the memories. The farmers market was a gardeners dream. Did you try any
of the street corner Huley, huley chicken???
Did you snorkle among the beautiful fish? Did you go on a whale watch or had
they left already?
Jeanne
----- Original Message -----
From: Gene GeRue
To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2007 2:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Gene, you still there?


>>>>
>>>> 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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