2/12 Shopping Day

This week's blogs may be devoid of pictures until later as were are sitting on the verandah and have realized that the computer is only half charges. I will try to add some later. It was 59 degrees when we left the mountain this morning and 72 at the coast. We showered and had breakfast and then went into Waimea. Our first shop was the book drop at the local library. Leilani had finished a book that she had borrowed and we offered to drop it off so they wouldn’t have to drive down the hill to return it. They had been packing and cleaning so they will be ready to leave at 5:30 AM on Monday to go back home to Alaska. There was no rain at camp, but we hit rain on the way to Lihue. We stopped at Kmart to buy a small hand mixer (last weekend we used the Armstrong method – Dave’s strong arm!) and a candle just in case the power goes out again. We also stopped at Home Depot to pick up a file for sharpening our machetes and weather-stripping to muffle the banging of the screen doors at the cottage. We got our dry grocery goods at the Times store and stopped at a local farmer’s market to pick up some tomatoes and native oranges. Driving back through the rain from Lihue to Waimea we found that Waimea was dry. We stopped at Plantation Cottages to post the blog from yesterday and to look at email. We then went for a late lunch at Obsessions and then into Big Save for our cold goods. When we left the store, it was 77 degrees and it was 63 at camp. We put away the groceries and then we had a bit of rain here. We read for a while and then had dinner. After dinner we watched Social Network – a bit dark and awkward at times, but not a bad movie. Leilani and Alan had company so we were by ourselves for the movie. We went to bed to read and get warm in our sleeping bags.