Just for Fun

It was a totally perfect Sunday.  It began in the wee early hours with a waning moon and a light rain, followed by a a luscious sunrise, a little more rain, excellent coffee, a little music and off to "church."  That is to say, our weekly trip to Maku'u Market where, after nearly seven months, we running into more and more people we actually know and from whom we receive wonderful hugs.

There's Paul and Janet who sold us their wonderful yellow tub and who have a house here in Leilani, Terry and Nancy who are both multi-talented (herbalist, handyman, wood worker, member of hula halau, music lover and story teller.)  Scott and Corinne were the friends who sold us our new runner from the Afghanistan-Tajik Caucasus.  We usually buy our plants from Phil and Clifford, but we splurged today and bought a citrus that is a cross between a tangerine and and grapefruit AND a Valencia orange tree.  Our insurance agent, Michelle, who also creates amazing beaded jewelry has become a good friend too.  We also ran into our young contractor and friend Jordan, whose sister, Noel owns our favorite bakery in Pahoa.

Maybe the best hug of all was from Saskia -- a new friend who recently moved from Humboldt and who is setting up her new home in Kalapana, just down the road a ways.  We have been trading emails for months, but never seemed to run into each other.  Today, finally, we met face-to-face, and of course got more hugs!

After market, we continued working on sanding and painting those very long 16' 1x3" for the trim in the ohana.  Finally, we finished staining the deck of the balcony -- until the afternoon sun got too intense.  While Phil took a late afternoon nap, Dexter and Lunel took a short walk, read for a while in the late afternoon sun, and played with an image in photo shop -- just for the fun of it. 

Now, yams are cooking, spiced chicken is broiling and there's left over rice from last night.  Last night we watched a superb concert of Foreigner in New Orleans on AXIS-TV, so we are hoping for anther concert or good movie.....ahhhh.  Now THIS is retirement!