Persimmon Harvest

Jeremiah came over today & helped me pick the persimmons. He climbed into the tree again like last year. We got about 8.5 pounds this year. 

Small & not the prettiest looking but they taste great!

I picked up the dried grass clippings from Trudy's yard. I spread them out around one of the maiʻa; at the Super Soil Health Symposium in November they said to mulch the maiʻa heavily because that is how they grow best. I hope it works; they need to grow taller quickly so the cows can't reach the leaves & eat them.

When I went to return the tarp that the grass clippings were in, Trudy showed me some akulikuli starts that she was going to plant. She was a little disappointed that the flowers were single ones & not the thicker double ones used for lei. I wasn't sure what mine were, so I took photos of them when I got home & sent them to her. Turns out my dark pink one is single, the pink & light pink look like they are doubles. 

Dark pink.

Light pink.

Pink. That's what the labels said.

At this time of the year I am getting up about a half hour before the sun rises. It is still quite dark at that time. It was gray & overcast at sunrise & stayed that way for most of the day. A Kona low storm was supposed to arrive this afternoon but did not affect our part of Hawaiʻi Island. Before I go to bed tonight I will be closing all the south & west facing windows so if it arrives later tonight I won't have to jump out of bed & close those windows. Kona low storms usually blow in from the southwest with a lot of rain. 

Thirty minutes before sunrise, when I wake up.

Sunrise from my bedroom window.

The window for the start of Episode 40 of the eruption of Kīlauea has now been narrowed for between the 8th & the 13th.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Mary, Tom, Kristin, & Molly Mac!