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March,
2003 – Issue #22
BOB
AND CAMILLE AT HOME ON MAUI
FROM SEED TO HARVEST
Bob has begun starting seeds
under lights in the garage. Some of the seeds are store bought and
others are harvested from our garden.
The next step is to prepare
the bed, which Bob does here on March 23.
Just add water and
voila! Camille holds enough exuberant harvest for at least one meal of
soup, salad and bread.
NIAGARA FERNS
We have been working on this
landscape feature for a couple of years, encouraging asparagus fern to spill
over this bank like a waterfall.
NOT AGAIN!
Bob had the good sense not to
put this batch of Boysenberry beer on top of the refrigerator on March
22. This is the last batch of beer he will brew using this unruly
berry. Apparently the boysenberries contain so much fruit sugar that
they make the yeast go wild. He had to get up out of bed 4 times
to replace the lid on this keg!
MAXFIELD PARRISH HOUR
About 6:00 every evening, the
sun turns our views surreal. Here it has given Camille a case of
yellow fever and made the hapu’u tree fern reach for the sky.
CAMPING IN KIPAHULU
Shaun, Pamela, Bob and Camille
drove to Hana to spend a couple of days at the Kipahulu campsite on March
7. It rained that night and we put all our bedding out to dry the next
day. We received more than a couple of stares from other campers as
they strolled past two cars powered by recycled cooking oil.
On Saturday, the four of us
spent a couple of hours hiking through a huge bamboo forest to this
waterfall. Parts of the trail were covered by a boardwalk made from
plastic lumber manufactured on Maui by Tom Reed of Aloha Plastic. The
bamboo clicked and squeaked in a mysterious way as we passed. After
the hike, we went swimming in the cool water of the rock pools.
TELL ME WHAT YOU REALLY THINK
Bob and this handsome male
Jackson’s Chameleon exchanged a few words before the critter made his escape
into the stag horn fern.
READY FOR ANOTHER DAY
Bob’s work truck stands washed
and ready for the next recycling route. This picture was taken on
March 4th. The agapanthus in the foreground has not yet begun to
bloom. Behind the truck is a stand of wattle trees. Wattle is
more of a weed than a tree but does a nice job of eliminating the recycling
truck from the neighbor’s view.
INVENTORY
Every three months we receive
a shipment of beer mixes. There are no boysenberries in this
shipment. There are, however cans of Malt Extract such
as Mellow Amber and Creamy Brown and Beer Mixes ranging from Classic
American Light to Englishman’s Nut Brown Ale.