Wow!

Wow! was Originally Posted on December 18, 2003 by lavarock

I had a breakfast buffet in the morning and later tried to help on a computer problem, but found that I was stumped.

I bought a few supplies and headed to the farm. There I started scrubbing the deck chairs on the lanai (porch). They are pretty dirty and I used a bit of Oxiclean on them.

My mistake of the day was to try to cut down some trees which were blocking my view of the Pacific. No, I didn’t get hit by falling lumber, rather, when I was done, I walked on and broke my water line!

On the mainland where it freezes, people use heavy duty water lines and bury them below the frost line. Here the frost line is up at say 10,000 feet! With all the lava on the ground in my area, we use plastic PVC pipe and just lay it on top of the ground. I can tell you that is a great idea. In Georgia I had to dig up my water line once and I was without water for over a week as I repaired and then re-repaired the line. Here my repair will take about an hour to fix and 2 hours to ensure the glue is dry before pressurizing the line again. Since all of my farm will be PVC and drip irrigation, I will stockpile lots of spare parts.

My Mom sent me a Christmas card. On the back were a few stickers, one of which was Santa, holding a candy cane in one hand and a cup in the other. Mom drew an arrow poiting towards the cup and wrote “Kona Coffee?” I had a good laugh over that!

Tonight for dinner I opted to go back to the Big Island Grill, where I first visited a week ago. I again got the rosemary chicken and again could only finish half. I told the chef that they might as well just serve the dinners in a takeout tray because most people end up not finishing their dinner and have to take it home My dinner plud drink and tip was $10.00. Absolutely a great place to eat.

As I was nearing the door, I heard someone say “she” was going to sing for us. I did not hear who the singer was, but it appears most people in the restaurant knew her or knew of her. There were only about 18 people in the place and 10 of them were at her tabvle. They might have been family, but i do not know. In the Big Island Grill, it seems almost everybody is family (one way or the other)!

As she began to sing “I believe the children are our future…” the room hushed and you could hear a pin drop. It was a moving and delightful moment in time, and certainly something that rarely happens elsewhere.

As I got into my car and started back to the hotel, I was jarred back to reality. The lyrics being sung on the radio station… “I don’t know, I don’t know, I don’t know where I’ma gonna go when the volcano blows…”