February 06, 2005

Time Out...

Ocean Entries from the air... See the huge "bench" or shelf that has formed, along the dark crak and the dark spots off the coast. When this breaks off, we run the risk of tsunami here in Puna... HVO Photos


I am having a time out... you know a moment to huddle and talk over the stategy of the next play... Today being SuperBowl... the biggest holiday after Christmas and Halloween, Woody is out partying at Charlies bar in Keaau, and the street is dead quiet so I suppose that either the cable is out or that everyone else went to Charlies too as they have free food (or Puu puus for us local kine folks). Free is good. The only souls left are the stupid people that burn their trash illegally and they suppose that the rest of the neighbors are at Charlies... the last time I was home and they did this Dad Bandperson (the clown next door)went down and screamed the f-word 47 times at them and threatened to burn the rest of their trash to the ground ie their house. There are those that are concerned that we wont be able to handle red necky-ness in rural Texas... Rural Hawaii has its own brand and we are coping with it sort of... At leaset they wont burn you "Bush for President" signs as trash along with all of their trash...

Its so still I can hear myself breathe that is marvelous.

I sit here a thankful heart. Not just for the quiet but that things are going as well as they are. People are looking at the house and today its the first hot and sunny day we have had so people may just come over and look at it some more. The comments we are getting are "wow" and "can the price go lower?". Our agent is saying no we are sticking to our price. This is a hard area to comp as nothing has sold in a long time. People stay here a while and that make for stablity which normally is a good thing. Well get our price never fear...

We have totalled up the tickets at the store and its phenominal. In the last 10 selling days we have racked up as much business as we had gotten the previous 5 months combined, and late yesterday a man and his wife came in and want to buy the improvements and have us somehow get the landlord to honor the lease we have with the new people... I think its do able and we are hopeful that all can be worked out. Its not a sale of the business but rather a conversion to a related business and I am sure that the landlord will be pleased that we can promise him new good tenants to fill this space...The money isnt a lot but it helps...

noluck selling any of the household stuff but that is ok and we will end up having a yardsale I think after all. My eBay adventure is not working out as the young man in charge is not really doing what he said that he would do and my goods are not selling. I will be putting the jewelry back into the inventory and selling it on my own as my own shop is getting a bit bare... Thank God.

Eagles or Patriots... I root for the underdog mostly, but the Pats have been there and the savour of winning is not easily let go of... We shall see how things go. Same is true of the game of life I am constantly asked about this or that situation and its always a wait and see, for I am experienced, yet know little, I have been there before but I am new to this... Its all in the fearless execution of the game...