To boldly taste what no one else has… Sonja’s rainbow collard wraps…
First harvest from the gutter garden (with some in-ground herbs)
Andy finally managed to process some cacao without Sonja running off and trying to plant them. They were really good.
Month: July 2012
We found and evacuated quite a few cane spiders recently…
They are big, and their favorite food are cockroaches (just like the chickens, but at least the spiders catch theirs themselves)
The audience of the puppet show: The otherwise unemployed (over the summer) cat-slippers…
What girls do with dinosaurs…
I really like Leilani’s cat drawing…
… and she is so proud of her sunrise on a mountain
We threw out our old grill and I got a nice shiny stainless steel one at Cosco and we brought it to the potluck and grilled colorful skewers. The most interesting thing on them were almost ripe sunrise papayas, they were delicious (says the cook).
One of our neighbors does not like chickens and he has a gun. 11 tiny, motherless chickies were peeping frantically in front of my kitchen window. Andy helped me to catch them and put them in a box. Our cats ignored them from the first day.
Back then their main food were eggs and sprouts, they were fluffy and sweet and needed a heating lamp.
Fluffy and sweet most the time, sometimes they look like angry birds…
But as I said, most the time… fluffy and sweet
We started feeding them chicken starter or crumble, but they did not like it. Egg was still their favorite.
Leilani played with them… not quite parent approved, but at least she was very gentle
As soon as they were big enough I built them a pen, and they got to go outside when the weather was nice. They look so happy on this picture. That photo was taken 10 days after we found them.
Still eating sprouts…
Around 5 pm they start their peeping and want to go to their box again, and they get up around 6 am(they peep very softly in the mornings and loud and frantic at night)
Getting bigger fast, and growing feathers… when we went to Kokee, we brought them to friends for the weekend who also have chickens (adult laying hens). I was so glad that their cat did not eat them. I sometimes give them my old wheatgrass.
This is Arrow. She is the tamest, or at least when this photo was taken she was. Right now one of the roosters is even tamer, his name used to be Madeline (or maybe Maedlein) but now he is “Clover”.
That’s what happens if I let her on my arm. She climbs up to my shoulder and then into my hair…
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Andy is building them a chicken tractor
Leilani loves them, and they love her (and the sorrel and clover she feeds them)
Even though the weather was a bit iffy most of the day I had a beautiful hike. It was a bit short as I was tired already (jogged 3 miles in the thin air this morning), and there were many distractions along the way, like this Ohelo berry…
and many vistas and photo ops
The trail was pretty, going through native shrubs and then through a fern, koa and ohia forest.
The rainbow on the way back was spectacular, I could not decide which picture to post (…) Seeing the dark clouds behind it and all the (wet) rain gear on people walking from the parking lot made me worry a bit about the weather, but I made it to the car dry. I am grateful for that.
The steam vents were going full steam, and there was a bonus orb, purple with a golden tail. It was in another photo too, at a totally different location.
Devon’s Birthday Party (feb 12)
At a potluck
Sorry, you can’t have this. But at least you’ll get a photo…
Art Andy (or The Enlightenment)
The mayor had a track meet, and Adam the Kanuikapono PE teacher needed an additional athlete (that’s why Leilani is wearing the T-Shirt)… kids posing with Kauai mayor Bernard P. Carvalho
Riding Stardust with Bobbi
Lei-making class at the museum
Lena and I found 2 kittens at boot camp. We took them away and she found homes for them. I hope someone is getting the cat spayed…
We saw My Fair Lady. Leilani loved it. It’s not a topic for 6 year olds though…
