Category Archives: Farm Stuffs

Remember when Ricky and Poem came to live with us? It was rainy Spring when they arrived, and some days they had to wear their raincoats. But now summer is here and they have settled in so well!

It’s funny how no matter how great my pain, the stuff in the garden keeps growing as though it hadn’t a care in the world. Which really it doesn’t, so long as everything gets watered and fed regularly. Which is … Continue reading →

Despite my sadness, the beans still come up.

The only place Nolemana and I can have much of a veggie garden is out on our deck. We used to have a huge garden but right now this is all we can do. Better than nothing, right?

The next day, Poem and Ricky were settling in well. Joan came over that night and put them in the barn as she would do every night, then let them out in the morning.

Rayado was still standing still as a statue. He’d had horses in the pasture with him before, but it had been a few months and he wanted to make sure these new ones were okay.

The horses were safe in the pasture. All of us had been praying that the transition would go smoothly, and so far it couldn’t have gone better.

I have loved horses all my life. My friend Kikue and I often quote the local song, “’round the Ko‘olau Hills we’d ride on horseback’”, wishing we’d known each other back then and could have ridden around Kane‘ohe together. My … Continue reading →

Back in Octobah sometime, Nolemana and I wen holoholo ka‘a to Hood Rivah, Oregon, to get some apples. We wen come back wit ukuplenny, and wen decide foa make applesauce. I get dis antique apple peeler dat makes da job … Continue reading →

As an experiment this year, I ordered some pole beans seeds from University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.