What a lightening show and thunderstorm last night! The thunder seemed to go on forever, but strangely very little rain up here. It turned out to be an absolutely gorgeous day – one of the best yet – bright sunshine and blue skies. Eben said he saw on TV (what’s that – we haven’t seen one for 3 weeks) that the east side of the island got 5 inches in 2 hours last night! Katie has the day off today, Kyle and Mapu are still sick, so Eben, Dave and I (mostly I just watched or supervised) finished the fence project. We went up the road and found some very straight and tall guava near the road which Dave and Eben cut down with the chain saw. We then tied the new wooden posts to the existing fence posts and put the new wire on the bottom four feet of the fence. We raised the chicken wire to overlap that so now the fence is 8 feet high. We then put a white ribbon around the top so the deer won’t try to jump the fence. After lunch we went back and cut more guava to put around the bottom to keep the pigs from digging under the fence (see photo of Dave and Eben wiring the logs to the bottom of the fence). It was nice to get the job done as we didn’t want to leave having done a partial job. In a few years, when the native plants have really taken root and grown a bit, they will take down the fence. Apparently, the deer and pigs are partial to the young plants. We said goodbye to Eben and will email the rest of the staff to say goodbye. We did some laundry and have repacked our bags so that we can take off tomorrow morning. We have been cleaning up here – Dave just swept the kitchen and we gave any leftover food to Eben and L. B., the handyman. We will fly from Lihue to Oahu. We hope to visit the Arizona at Pearl Harbor on Saturday and then fly over to the big island on Sunday. We have enjoyed our stay here, but are looking forward to the warm weather at sea level.
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