Palms and TIMBER!

Saturday we got 4 palms in the ground!!!! It's such a big deal because our nursery is filled with palms right now and what I really want to plant is AVOCADO trees. So we're slowly making it thru the palms so we can get on to some food producing trees.

We got 2
Carpoxylon macrospermum in the ground. GB did 99% of the work on these, but I got the glory with the photo. We had to attach some chicken wire to the fencing there behind me because the goats were so interested in this new plant and were eating it thru the fence. They've all scattered here, except for Tamarind.

After this, GB and I moved down to near the pool and after much much difficult work, we managed to get 2 Metroxylon vitiense into the ground.
We planted them on the side of the hill down from the pool. It's steep there and very very jungley. I weed whacked with the blade, and GB chainsawed.


Sunday we worked up on the newer property, near the goats.
GB decided that this tree had to go. It was crowding 2 avocados (see above), and if/when we put a structure/office/house here, the tree is right in the way.

Cutting

It's starting to tip

On the way down

Job completed!

Looks like an octopus!

weekend works!

This weekend we embarked on completing the chicken's new run. We had fashioned a makeshift gate last weekend, but needed to fix it up.

Noam learned how to use the circular saw

He looks pretty confident!

We got to pull out the concrete mixer. It's been a couple of months since we've used it. I think it missed us

Contrary to what this picture shows, Ra'am worked really hard.

GB used the extra concrete to fix up some areas around the chicken's water pond.

Fixin the new gate

Painting! The right side there opens

Garden

planted BEETS today

This Weekend

• Finished fencing new chicken run! (and moved chickens into said run)

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• GB used chainsaw on hau
  
• planted corn, soybeans and squash in garden
• trimmed goat hooves (very hard this time. GB called us amateurs)
• planted lemon tree and lime tree
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• planted temple grass on the Hilo side of the pool
• Noam mowed the side of the pool
• GB moved some palms and bamboo around
• planted vetiver grass on the new chicken run fenceline (in hopes we can make a living fence with it) and also planted vetiver behind the banana trees
• lots of watering. rain... we miss you!
  

New Kids on the Block

Meet Tamarind and Thorn. Born December 10, 2009. They're Nubian Goat kids.

Gandhi, Floyd and Neo knew something was up

Come and meet your new brothers!

This is Tamarind. He's smaller than his brother Thorn. They were from a litter (?) of quadruplets. The other 2 were females

Luka feeds all goats

A natural born leader

After settling the goats (and taking tons of photos), I picked up Ra'am and Noam. I showed them the photos on the camera but neither thought they were that cute.... until we got home. The oohs and ahhs were so loud!

Ra'am and Thorn

Noam and Tamarind

Me and Thorn

The following morning I decided to take the 5 goats for a walk. They were very docile and easy to manage. We had to make a quick detour at the house for me to get something, and they all waited patiently downstairs.
While here, they made tons of noise, and GB started referring to me as his Crazy Goat Lady wife.... hmmm.....

Day 3 am, Luka and I took the goats to the upper pasture

Tamarind gets very excited sometimes. I caught him mid air here

And in other animal news....

Pippi is now acting like a peacock.... flashing up her big tail.