Author: Roland
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Autumn 2006
Through this period, it seems we backed off from any big projects. We had some travel planned and for the next few months, one or the other or both of us would be off island. It was during Lisa’s trip to the Mainland that I built our front door out of tropical hardwood pallets I…
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May 2006 – Summer 2006
I have just looked at our little site here after, oh…a couple of years! I really let this get away from me. I’m writing this in April of ’08 and I am going to blaze through my photographs and create a series of pages to bring this journal (oh, what totured use of the word…
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March 2006: The Cesspool Mystery
This is an old house (by local standards) with many unknown chapters in it’s early life. When we were building our bathroom addition, we converted our waste water system to a greywater process, leaving only the toilet on the cesspool. We didn’t know much about the cesspool, only that it was old enough to be…
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February 2006: A Random Overview
I’ve got a few photos to show you to give you a little overview of the place as it presently stands. Maybe someday I’ll look at these and wonder at how things have changed… or not. Anyway, most of you looking at these pages are here to see what’s up with the land here, so…
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February 2006: Creating Space
Creating Space, Growing Abundance. From the beginning, we have looked at what’s growing on the land here with an eye toward creating a more welcoming, nourishing place of sanctuary. There are a lot of trees on the land, most of them unintentional (that is, invasive species) and quite large. It will be the work of…
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February 2006: Decorating the Bath Room
Mid-Winter It has been rather too long in coming that I update this site. Lisa and I have had our hands full for many months now and forward progress on our various initiatives around here has been slow to negligible. Nevertheless, things have happened (as they will…) and from my store of photographs I will…
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April 2005: The Bath Room Remodel, Phase I
Early Spring, 2005 By now our long-term guests have gone home and we are spending more time on the land after letting it go for the major construction phase of the last two months. We’ve been making use of our rototiller— a gift of Robin and James— to break up the weed party that’s been…
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January 2005: We build a Cabaña
We are blessed with expert help. James and Robin, longtime friends from the mainland, arrive to make a huge contribution to the energy and form of Lokelani Ranch. We have been looking forward to this for some time now, being one of the big steps forward in our plan to refurbish the house. This project…
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December 2004 part 2: Moving the Bees
Beekeeping begins. It’s been some time that we’ve known about the bees. We have an old tin shed near the road mostly got used for storage of things seldom used, a place alive with rats, spiders, surplus hardware and old tools. Vines have been trying to pry off the roof for many years and have…
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December 2004: Gifts in Abundance
The Chamber is Open. It doesn’t seem very “Christmas-y” this month, yet there were gifts in abundance! The compost is beginning to come in, the Chamber is built, the guest room is completed, and our dear friend Annette has come to stay for a couple of months. We are both putting in a lot of…