No Excuses... Well, Maybe A Few (Photo Essay)

OK, Ok, I know (and I've heard it from several sources) i have not written in FOREVER! The thing is, I had the best of intentions and everytime we did something I took pictures with the intent of writing about it and then more happened and then I took more pictures and then more happened.... you see how it went????
I dont even have a hope of getting time back to write becuase they don't "Do Time Change" in Hawaii.... no "Fall Back" time to get an hour, because afterall, even an hour would help... so I'm just going to blast you with pictures showing you what we've been up to (captions included) and start with my good intentions all over again!
WE REALLY HAVE BEEN BUSY! Honest!
The garden is growing, especially the tomotes, lettuce and eggplant.

Garden is growing like crazy!

Ippy with his little house!

The problem is, we dont really like eggplant that much.... the good news is little Ippy, the goat that you will remember I wanted BAAAAAAADLY, loves eggplant! And by the way, John built him a little house to be out of the rain, which we get a lot of in the summer apparently!

Elvis anyone!

I have been working on building an on-line store which I hope to reveal to you all soon where I can sell the 12+ flavors of macadamia nuts I have developed. I also got my first customer (you know who you are) and have been working on an order over 150 bags of those 12 flavors!!! To do that I have to harvest the nuts, shuck then, dehydrate then, crack them and then cook and package them so lots of time involved. I have been taking some pictures to the site, as well. Thanks to my friend Don for pointing my to goodsie.com where I am building the store!

A peek at the future on-line store

We had a couple of visitors, our niece Hayley and sister-in-law, Astrid for a couple of days. I took the opportunity to take then on a Mad Hatter's Wild Ride around the Island in a day! The day before that after John got off work we went kayaking just before it started getting dark. Great fun. We always try to do something on the weekend, mosstly to get me off the farm. The last few weekends we went to the Mai Tai Festival, the Donkey Mill Art Center 1000 Bowls Festival and the Parker Ranch Rodeo!

And, because I was not busy enough, I am taking beginner ukulele lessons as a rec department course..... so I have not had time to write!

OK, clean slate, I'm going to try and be better.... or at least post more pictures!