Cleaning Out the Dining Room

We started going through things in the dining room. Sort of. The Potential Most Favorite Roommate moved a bunch of things into the living room to sort them out. Then he went outside to work on a bonsai that he is repotting and training. I pulled a couple things out of the pile that I want to take with me. 

The main focus of today's clean up effort.

I also need to go through the cabinet.

Bonsai in progress.

I also checked out the pakalana; I will be making starts from the runners that are trying to root along the ground.

I heard from Evan about 6:30 this morning, he said tomorrow at 12 noon HI time/6 pm PA time was a good time for us to meet with Susan. When I was more awake later in the morning, I organized a Zoom meeting for Sarah & Evan to talk to Susan who was a student at Hawaiʻi Preparatory Academy. I think talking to her will answer a lot of questions that Evan might have about working there. 

Today I made my 1st proothie in a while. I didn't make any while I was on Hawaiʻi Island. I only made 1 during some weekends while I was working at the LCC vaccine POD. This morning I made a beet green proothie with a few leaves of basil; I was great to have one again!

I sent Sarah a link to a 1 bedroom place in Laupāhoehoe just off the main road; it was originally an artist studio that was upgraded to a residence (with permits). It is $1500/mo, available June 15th, and a 45 minute drive to HPA. It's in a small cul-de-sac with about 5 other houses (besides the 1 on the lot that it is associated with). 

Yellow arrow is the cottage for rent. (Photo by Google Maps)

A short while later Sarah sent me a link to a place she found in the sublet section of Craigslist, asking, "Tiny but possible?" I told her it was up to her & Evan whether it was possible for them to live in a 450 sq ft studio loft with an active child. I also told her it looked like the cabin was on the hillside above the highway through Laupāhoehoe, and if so, it was up a dirt road and would not be a 40 minute drive to Waimea. I'm pretty sure she was interested in it because they said, "built with sustainability in mind, supported by abundant solar power and rain water from the catchment. Perfect for the eco minded single person". She's not aware that almost all the houses on that hillside have no infrastructure supporting them so they need to provide their own power and water. I suggested if she was still interested in it, to ask for a street address, look it up on Google Maps, and also turn on the satellite image to see how far up the hill it is.

Is there a pot of gold in that cabin?

I reached 400 days of practicing ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi on Duolingo. I thought there was some sort of reward for it but I was mistaken. There is apparently only 1 at 365 days. 

My daily goal is to practice for 20 "minutes."

The Aix weather app forecast a partly cloudy day with rain in the afternoon. It showed it mainly rainy in Kapaʻau.

The Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope webcam at about 1:45 pm.

There were 30 new cases of COVID-19reported today, bringing the total known cases up to 36,276. There were no new deaths reported so the death toll remains at 500: currently 764 cases are considered active.