Interior Work Begins

Chris cut a passage through the old wall; he has to put in a beam to hold up the roof before he removes the entire wall. He will now be working on interior upgrades, like making the current single walls into double walls. We discussed me picking up the wiring materials & gutter material for the portion of the roof that hangs over the stairs that will go down to the anthurium garden. I will likely be doing that tomorrow.

Panorama this morning before work started.

At lunch time.

At the end of the day.

The 1st photo below is a panorama from the northeast corner, looking at the space at the end of today. Photos after that are the views out of each of the windows.

I will take a photo from here at the end of each work day.

Looking easterly, sunrise should be nice through here.

Looking northerly.

Looking westerly out northerly window; Maui is visible when there are no clouds.

Looking westerly.

This is why I am having this rebuilt as a double walled room. Since the house was not fumigated for over 20 years, there is a lot of termite damage. For the rest of the house I had Chris replace portions of walls, parts of the kitchen cabinets, & doors that were very bad; like poke-your-finger-through-the-wall bad. I had him put 1/2" plywood over the entire floor since we already had holes that had been punched though it. Having double walls here will provide me with a place to shelter in during hurricane season that is stronger than the rest of the house.

The positive note here is that the frass is black which means these are old droppings.

Fred also came by this morning. He & Shannon worked on putting in the post for the gate on the east side of the cat yard & setting the posts for the west side. It rained on & off so it made some parts less easy; like keeping the bags of cement dry until they needed to mix them up.

Fred & Shannon moving cement bags under cover.

Gate temporarily set to size width of opening.

From new reference Point G, looking at fence posts for west side.

From reference Point B.

The rain also made the work area a bit muddy & slippery. Because of the rain this morning I postponed working on the planter box; I was too tired later in the day when it was drier & sunnier. 

Up until today there was no mud here.

As usual, Moʻo continues to make some spectacular knots in her tie out cable. She must be running under the cable then over the top to make these knots. Today she also managed to get herself tangled on the building materials & protective tarp.

Imagine how much more she could do with opposable thumbs!

When the weather was nicer later in the day, Jeremiah came over & harvested all the persimmons he could reach. He got about 6.5 pounds; I split the harvest with him since I would have none if he didn't pick them for me. When I went to give him his half, I met his new male goat Oliver; I had met the 2 nannies last August when he 1st got them; they were very young & they tried to walk out to the road!

Oliver trying to get persimmons from Jeremiah; Jane in background.

Becky came by later in the afternoon to pick up the protector foot for her massage stool. I showed her the progress made today; she had last seen it on Saturday (when it looked like this morning's photo). She's the only one of my friends that has seen the renovation up close.

The eruption at Kīlauea was paused earlier today. The status update email was sent out about 4 hours after they usually do; I'm guessing they thought it might erupt today & they were trying to avoid sending out 2 emails like they had to do a couple days ago

This is usually emailed to subscribers between 9 & 10 am unless there is a change in activity.

This was on website at usual time; note difference in 1st paragraph.

VMAP Vog Forecast Map.

Then about 5 minutes after the above email was sent, there was sporadic sputtering.  HVO held off on declaring Episode 7 had started until the fountains were sustained just before 7 pm. Fountains are now 100 to 120 feet high. They were right in thinking an eruption was imminent.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Lea!