Preparations

Preparations was Originally Posted on November 29, 2004 by lavarock

Recently I bought thousands of half gallon plastic bags for my new coffee plants. I’m clearing an area near the house where I’ll lay some weed matting down and erect a fence. Once I get the potting soil, I can fill the bags and plant the seedlings. I’ll have to also install some water sprinklers, but that is quite easy since here, I won’t have to bury the pipe.

I have been creating gift baskets and photographing some of the samples. I’ll know how well I did when I see how many sell

I tested out the clothes drier the other day and it works, but if I keep it I’ll only use it for emergency drying. I am happy enough with the clothesline and the solar drier is a lot cheaper. Electrical costs here are quite high, although at least we don’t have to have heating and cooling costs if we don’t want to.

I have been loading an operating system on a server I have. I shipped it here for use with my shopping cart, but set that idea aside when I mispacked the disks and many got destroyed in the move. I was able t orecover some disks and I’ll do some testing to see how much the electric costs go up when I run it

Saturday I received my check from the mac nut processor. It was not as much as I had hoped, but it was well worth the trouble to get it. It pays off my leasehold fees for next year.

In the past few weeks I have had more opportunities to browse the property here. So far I have some coffee, lots of mac nut trees, an orange tree, a guava tree, a couple of avacado trees and I think I saw a papaya tree once but have not seen it since. Hmmm… Then the other day I found a couple noni. Noni is a quite interesting plant that appears to have many uses. I won’t go into details, but suffice it to say that it appears people think it fixes everything If you want to read more about it, here is an abode document: http://www.ctahr.hawaii.edu/ctahr2001/commodities/noni/Downloads/morinda_species_profile.pdf

In the next day or so I think I’ll post a review of my first full year on the island. So far, not a bit of island fever and I hope I never get it