OK, let me start with the fact that it is a holiday in Hawaii today, Prince Kuhio Day (and I thought the English had a lot of holidays!) John and I went to a festival at the Palace in Kona this weekend, an early celebration, and here is little video from there.
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| Garden Invasion |
OK, so on to the freakin' turkeys (or Chinese pheasants or doves or whatever)... So vegetables are crazy expensive here and being the dutiful farmers wife I decided to grow a vetetable garden. Besides, gardening should be in my veins... no matter where we lived my Dad ALWAYS had a vegetable garden which I would dare say got more attention than we girls did!! Back to my tale... I've already bemoaned the fact that the turkeys (or whatever) chopped off the heads of my little corn sprouts, though it does look like they might be surviving, and the turkeys (or whatever {I've decided to blame the turkeys since they wander around taunting me with their "gobble, gobble, gobble"}), keep going in the plot despite the fact that there is a fence and they are pulling up my little baby veggies. John was kind enough to remind my that the fence wouldn't totally work since birds CAN FLY, afterall. Well, last night I laid chicken wire OVER the plants, with the exception of one little area, and sure enough, that area was all tore up this morning.... so here is where my Dad would be quite proud, I would think... John and I got in the car and made our 15 mile trek to the Farm and Garden and the ACE Hardware in Kealakekua and got everything we needed to create our GARDEN FORTRESS!! Check this out, a 10' x 20" Anti-Aviary!! If you can't see it, this whole thing is coved with a nylon mesh called garden guard. Don't worry Leigh, John was worried about the birds, too, so you'll see we added strips of foil blowing in the air to warn them off! I just have 2 things to say now; 1.) If those freakin' turkeys have been in there again tomorrow I'm getting John's gun and 2.) I think I've spent way more on this project than the vegetables would cost me but I know my Dad is smiling down!!!!
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| Garden Fortress |
That's the hula dance Princess Konakuna does in memory of all those sweet little octopuses dangling from the end of a fork! I think it is called the "Eight Arm Revenge."
ReplyDeleteThe anti-turkey fortress is pretty darn impressive. And, is that an owl guarding over it? Can't wait to see pictures of all your veggies. Tell those sweet turkeys I'm glad they lived to see another day.