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["Jeanne Driese" <jeanne13 AT earthlink.net>]

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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