"Doing the garden, digging the weeds, who could ask for more?"

In just a matter of weeks, Krista and Ian will be leaving Hana for a three week visit to England (Ian’s mother country,) leaving Chelsea and I in charge. A slightly scary thought for some, but Krista seems to have the utmost confidence in leaving her livelihood in our hands. Preparing for this responsibility doesn’t come without training however, as we’ve been slowing learning more about the business end, instead of just being weeders, vine entanglers, rock pickers, flower washers, gardeners, chicken shit cleaners and whatever other titles we’ve been knighted with. Yesterday however, we learned how to make leis out of green ti leaves. Arts like lei making, passed down through generations of Hawaiians is always a joy to learn and be apart of. :)

Odds and end tasks fill our mornings here at Hana Tropicals. We finally managed to finish weeding a section of heliconia flowers and ti leaves this afternoon (a proud accomplishment after days of the sun beating down and the mosquitoes being much too friendly). With Happy gone for the week, we engage in joy rides in the Fulgy, once again practicing our skills on a standard. I when I say joy ride, it’s really not as scandalous as you may think. We periodically have to take runs in the worlds most beat up truck, to the compost pile to drop off our un-pulled rubbish. I'll tell ya, once we pick up speed on the farm roads and shift into second gear, it’s quite a thrill.

Tonight, as I sat outside the Diggs, beginning to write this post on the chicken shit proof floor I power washed today, Krista rolls up in her not so beat up truck, to unload the arrivals of our baby fruit trees! A project long in the works, we ordered trees to plant here on the property, each on will be named after past and present workers of Hana Tropicals. Now I just have to decide which fruit tree I want named after me! Banana would be perfect, just not sure if we got one….

Fruit trees aren’t the only thing Krista unloaded however….From the cooler amongst her weekly groceries, emerged a cheesecake, and not just any cheesecake, a Cheesecake Factory cheesecake. I think Chelsea’s proclaimed her undying love for Krista at least 30 times since….So obviously I lied and our habit of indulging has willingly extended it’s time frame. But hey, at least there’s no big drinking holiday coming up or anything… ;)

Aloha.