Update

My parents came for a weeks' visit to celebrate my and my mom's birthdays. We invited our cousin and his family over for lunch on the 18th. His birthday and his youngest daughter's were sandwiched between mine and my mom's so it was just fitting to have a birthdays celebration together. I prepared a Hawaiian feast of Kalua Pork and Cabbage, Chicken Long Rice, and Haupia for dessert. I managed to cook the kalua pork on my trusted pressure cooker, cutting the cooking time into half.  It was a great success. 😊

Anyway, we have been busy planting and replanting all over the property. Thankfully, some rains poured whenever we did some transplanting, which made all the trees happy. ☺

My mom lalso planted a lot of seeds to germinate. Hopefully they will all grow. We will find out soon enough.

House renovations done...farm work resumes

Here is the 2nd load of plants on the elf truck.

The week we finished our floor repainting we got hold of a family friend who promised us 10 Golden Tree (my favorite tree in Maui, the one with bright yellow flowers) seedlings. The original seeds did come from Hawaii about 50 years ago. Our friend was gifted some of the seedlings from the parent seeds which she managed to multiply.

We scheduled to pick up the Golden trees on a Thursday. We brought one of our workers to help carry the pots. To our surprise we got more than what we expected. We got 22 Golden tree seedlings, lots of assorted Heliconias, some black bamboo, yellow bamboo, brazil nut seedlings, Fox tail palms, McArthur palms and many more. We thought that was it. Well, it wasn't!

Our friend has this adjacent lot to her house which is filled with an assortment of plants. She needed all of the plants gone so she can level the land and ready it for lease. This meant we had first pick at any plants we wanted for FREE! Wow! So much abundance! So we picked and picked until we loaded our truck bed full of plants 9 times, and an additional 14foot Elf truck 2 times. Now you can imagine how much we got! LOTS!

We even uprooted some of the bigger trees like the Ficus and a few Banyan! Score!

So now we are busy replanting them in our property. I just can't wait to see all those Golden trees bloom.

 We also got these lovely, delicously creamy avocadoes from her tree!