#4
“A solar heated toilet seat? Un-Google-able.”
Dear Verna,
This morning I drank coffee from a can. I know!!!!! Hawaiian red neck. BUT, in my defense, I did get the Kona one. 😀 That 1 Kona bean I KNOW made a difference. We ran out of coffee and I’m just so grateful I had a red neck fall back plan. I loved it too. Delicious.
The comfort level this week compared to the first week is night and day!!! Seriously. Entirely different planets. Not only am I your mini me in the wood shop, but I’m probably using your exact verbiage when having to go to Kona and all I want to do is work on projects at home. How we LOVE being home! It’s been a bit frustrating for Lover since the plan was to decrease the Kona work days when we made the move to O.V., and instead, he had to increase. But as you always remind me, nothing ever stays the same for long! All is truly temporary and SO, in this spirit, I’m helping him out at the Butcher Shop one day a week to do the deep cleaning. Lover used to have this crack head cleaner guy come by but after the first week, it went a bit downhill. One day he went for a smoke break and never came back, and the next week he didn’t even come. Then one day, in the first hour, he tells lover, “Hey, uh, Harrison, can I borrow $10 towards my pay today to go grab some cigs?” All day he hears people,
“Hamilton! We ate that….
Hamilton, how’s it going!
Hello Hamilton
Bye Hamilton!”
Yet every single time, he calls him Harrison. But maybe it’s fair? I mean, we call him Crack Head. 😀 ahhaha!!
After eventful weeks of the crack head chronicles, I told Lover I could crack head for him. I could clean and do the projects he wasn’t able to get to since he’s the front man with the customers, and I’d even call him Harrison. A name change would be a good way to keep my Lover and my Boss separate. ;D
It has been so much fun. It’s a full day we get to spend together and I get to hear all these wise cracks he tells the customers which are totally memorable. “Why are you talking to my cleaning lady?” he asks the customers when they try to order something from me. I should have told him off in Spanish.
Buggie may work just as hard as I do, or harder. While Walmart is getting rid of their greeters, the Kona Butcher Shop has added one on Sundays. I make sure she has done her toilette; drawn on her eyebrows, and has a lipstick kiss on her blank canvas forehead. Her eyebrow pencil was the closest color to yours that I could find. It’s a perfect light brown so she doesn’t look mad. 😀
Lover even named a daily sandwich after her. In the restaurant world, a turkey and avo sandwich is a ‘white girl’ sandwich, or a ‘Cali girl’. So since little Bug is a white girl (on the outside only. When she has a bath, her skin is all black spots underneath! She’s just posing as a white girl). Lover named the turkey and avo sandwich the ‘Chihuahua Blanca’, his version of the ‘White Girl’.
Now with Kashmir out of commission and waiting to get a patch on the fuel tank, I’ve had a couple days of being at home. I was basically stranded there but we’ll call them work days. 😀 With the list of the projects at the Lava Tube Hale being so long, it’s been hard to even know where to start. Every project is a BIG project and construction where we are sleeping and living at the moment is tricky. But one thing I knew I wanted was to strip that paint off the ‘ohia posts that are the wall of the main building. ‘Ohia is just such a beautiful color I can’t imagine why anyone would ever paint it!!! I mean look who I’m talking to. You’re a woodworker. You know. I feel so grateful that we are grandfathered into this amazing ‘ohia post Hale because it isn’t something you could ethically do today. Well, you could, but with the Rapid Ohia Death (ROD) etc etc… I’m just glad it’s already there and now I can just be the steward. So I powered up the generator and spent the two stranded days sanding the posts of their red paint on the front-side of the house and then putting a seal on them. I was a bit hesitant of what I’d find underneath that layer of paint. Would there be rot? Bugs? Praise the Lord they were in fabulous shape. The sanded ones are now sealed and ready for a UV protection coat. The mortar between the posts is still the same red, but I’m going to paint it white. That way the red of the ‘ohia will really jump out. Great color contrast. Then the floor below will be the black and white checkered tile.
Oh! One thing that I’ve wanted to tell you for forever… you know the emoji for sickness on our phones? The yellow smiley with the sars face mask on? We both know that’s really a sanding dust mask. 3M baby!!!
Next project after this sanding is an outdoor shower. I currently am using a solar bag shower that absorbs the heat and that’s been really nice, but I need to make an enclosure so that there isn’t any air! Even with hot water, if a slight breeze from the breath of a Jackson cameleon lands on me, I’m frozen. ;D I have an ideal outdoor shower I want to build, complete with nude mosaics on the walls etc etc. but in the mean time I’m gonna just get a half moon rod and shower curtain to attach to the shed. Oh glorious hot water. The shower we took at your house has been catalogued in my memory of a truly relaxing and pleasurable experience.
This is obviously still the shower that you wear your boots into and then have to put them back on to walk out of… 😀
Okay, so much more later.
I love you.
KK
Love ya gal! I saw a really cool shower made from an old surfboard , standing up , mosaic covered, and the head of the shower sticking through a hole drilled in the top. I really love the way you exposed the real Ohia posts! The white mortar will really give it a good “cheering up” ! I laughed out loud about Ham being called “Harrison” .Hilarious !!