The heat finally broke 2-3 days ago

and life is more tolerable.

Inland, 3 wildfires rage on.

Anyone else notice this has

been a bad year for good fruit?

Today like yesterday is was a balmy day, highs in the low 80's lows in the hi 70's, sigh, it is like this almost every day. Sometime today it will rain, not much, but it will rain. I have lived here 10 years and have never once watered my yard, no need. Everything is fresh and green, every day.

Sorry.

Now on the other hand we do have the occasional typhon come by and earthquakes are daily, (14,000 over the last year) and sometimes Pala gets pissed and we have a lava flow, like in 2018, Fissure 8 was 3 miles from my house, I called her Judy after my ex-wife as she was always going off. That one added a new coast line to the east side of the island by about a mile. BTW most of the earthquakes are several miles deep and range in the .5 to 2.5 range so we never even feel them. However we did have a 4.2 a few weeks ago that we all felt.

Here we're finally feeling the autumn...

Been having cloudy and chill days for a week or two, even some showers!

Let's pray for some rainy months because the reservoir is NOT going to survive another dry year...

Last few days we have been seeing the beginning of leaves changing... Weather has been warm to hot during the day, and cool at night... Last two days have been raw and rainy cold... Depressing, especially since we will be going back on Daylight WASTING time in a few weeks followed by winter.... Looks like I'm going to need to switch the heat pump from AC to cooling in the next few days...

WheelyFixed

Hawaii does not use day light saving time, we get about 13 and a half hours sun in the summer and 11 hours in the winter. Every day is much like the last one, everything is green year round, however we do only have one growing season, lasts 365 days. The plants themselves have a season, like my white pineapple just finished, the last two were cut up last night. The avocados are just about ripe and we will start picking them in a couple weeks thru December. The lemon and lime trees seem to fruit all year. Chickens just coming out of molt so I should be getting eggs again soon.

Are you keeping captive domestic chickens, or are you just picking off the 'wild' ones remember seeing all over the place on my one visit many years back - definitely a lovely place even if your Interstates are doing false advertising

WheelyFixed

moi621 (imported) wrote: Sat Sep 14, 2024 12:36 pm The heat finally broke 2-3 days ago

and life is more tolerable.

Inland, 3 wildfires rage on.

Anyone else notice this has

been a bad year for good fruit?

I had a pretty good year for the ornamental flowering peaches that somehow began making decent fruits when I added another species nearby to cross pollinate. My paw paw trees did OK, despite the squirrel that could have done me the courtesy of getting squashed in the road 2 weeks ago instead of 2 days ago! My crab apples were loaded, but the baby coons stripped them. Then the neighbor saw them going for his peaches and shot all of them.

I have a new pet. I've named him Comitatus. He's an opossum. Mr. Posse, you know. You can Google that name/joke. He sometimes wakes me up, as he likes to get up on the metal patio roof and dance at night. He's not very sociable, though. But he cleans up my food garbage.

Overall, it was a good fruit year here despite the late season drought.

WheelyFixed wrote: Tue Sep 24, 2024 8:44 pm Are you keeping captive domestic chickens, or are you just picking off the 'wild' ones remember seeing all over the place on my one visit many years back - definitely a lovely place even if your Interstates are doing false advertising

WheelyFixed

I have 6 Americana's 5 hens and 1 rooster. He is a wonderful guy only crows about 5 or 6 times in the morning, and the girls lay light blue eggs.

Sounds good, though I'm not an expert on chickens... I had a neighbor that did keep them, and he was in the opinion that the girls are happier if they have one guy around to keep them in line, and that you wouldn't have a crowing problem if there was only one rooster as he wouldn't have any need to prove that he was the boss man....

(I also heard some folks say that the wild chickens were to chewy to be good eating...)

WheelyFixed

We have some wild turkeys here. Next time that one jumps out in front of my truck, he's gonna end up in the oven as "Road Kill Cafe" special!