Catching Up....Turkeys and A Craigslist Adventure

Clearing the coffee

It was a busy week with lots of work so let me catch up. John has been working on clearing out the coffe. I think I mentioned it was pretty overgrown since the prior owner didn't bother with it. He's been going up there most every day and has made a lot of progress this week as you can see here. Well, John was taking me up there in the Gator (translation 'farm vehicle') and all of a sudden we saw a turkey followed by a bunch of chicks! You can hear my reaction in this video.... remember I've had garden trouble with these turkeys.... my friend Leigh befriends every creature and has been worried about them, look Leigh, more turkeys than ever but I want you to know people keep telling us we are SET for Thanksgiving!!



OK, so I've starting thinking about our daughter, Carolina's, family who are moving here, too, and arriving in June and that we will have a visit from John's 2nd cousin, JP, and how we don't even have livingroom furniture yet... though our kind friends Bob and Cynthia have loaned us a couch. I started searching Craigslist and found a nice tropical style set over in Hilo and I loved that it had so much ORANGE in it!! I love living with color and my favorite is orange. We arranged to buy it and yesterday drove the 95 miles to Hilo to pick it up. On the way back we stopped for lunch at the Volcano Golf Course and then decided that as we drove past, we would stop by the Punalu'u Beach Park and see if there were any turtles basking in the sun. Let me say I've always had the luck of seeing at least one there. It was a gorgeous day and I guess the turtles thought so too, we lucked out and saw 7 in one little spot...check 'em out (if you click on the collage it will open larger)!!

Turtles at Punalu'u Beach

By the way, I love the furniture and so does Mailie, as you can see here!
PS: My garden fortress is working beautifully and the garden is starting to thrive!!

PPS: I mentioned that "the Gator" is a farm vehicle because my sister said she was afraid to watch an earlier video because it had "Gator" in the title and she was afraid of what she would see... could it be worse than me singing in the rain??!!!