Red Dirt

Important lesson today - when you work in the garden you get covered in red clay dirt that sticks like glue. You have to scrub it off with a washcloth.  Your clothes are permanently stained red so "work clothes" have to be selected and segregated from all other's when you wash.  Rumor has it that OxyClean is the only product that gets red dirt out.

Interesting discovery in the flower bed today - two large snails - each about 2 1/2 inches stretched out - thought about some fine escargot - didn't have the nerve to take that chance and sent them on their way. 
(Aren't snails like mushrooms - some of them poisonous?)

Discovered our third avocado tree - we will have hundreds of avocados soon so make that plane reservation to come eat guacamole.   Found a second enormous macadamia tree and a box full of nuts are drying in the garage.  The gulch is full of wild raspberries - no wonder we have a herd of deer that frequent the pasture every night.  Observed the wild chickens this morning - one mom with six chicks in tow.  Saw the dang rooster strutting his stuff.  What is with roosters anyway - I hear them as early as 3:00
am. Daylight is hours away and the rest of the world is asleep.  Come evening time, not a crow can be
heard.  We are getting accustomed to the early am ruckus and even slept until 7:00am today.


Put up five quarts of guava jam today - Linda's first fruit canning - Curt is a pro.  We barely touched the amount of guava we have in the back two acres.  Soon we will have the famous Hale Mauka honey again to go with the guava jam and lilikoi butter. Life is bountiful on Maui.