Bob mainly needs daily maintenance on the farm. He's tired of it all and it is clearly overwhelming if you let it get away from you. I've spent a week or so getting the area around the shack cleaned up, trimmed, pruned and repaired. Next I'll expand a bit to take in the main house and out-buildings. The farm has a variety of produce, mainly given away. Selling, even at the Farmer's Market is just too much work for the money, Bob says. So produce: avacadoes; bananas; lemons; oranges; tangarines; lilikoi (passion fruit); Bombax (cotton); coconut; coffee; chickens; one goat; several feral pigs.
The house itself, is a genuine coffee shack with a moveable roof. The coffee was dried on the top of the ceiling, and when it rained, the roof was pulled over the beans. Think cabin in the mountains and you'll have a good idea. All redwood, single wall, with cracks and knotholes looking through to the jungle. Propane heating and cooking--we have to haul the propane in bottles. Real electricity, real water, slate and wood floors.
We've thought about naming the house "Tioli's Treehouse," or "Right Side Up," as in how we landed.
The big globe light is in the kitchen.
To harvest bananas you cut down the entire tree (15 feet or so plus leaves). The trunk is easy to cut using a wicked curved knife with a slightly serrated edge. Sticky juice pours from the plant when it is cut. The sap/water makes good glue.
Coffee
Bird of Paradise. I personally don't see it.
From the entry way, looking into the kitchen and living room.
The bathroom with a ship's porthole. The tub/shower is raised about 14 inches so you can bathe and enjoy the view out the screen.
The lower lanai.
The view from Andrea's bed.
Andrea's separate "ohana."
Avacadoes
Tangarines and the kitchen garden.
Tractor shed.
Into the living room from the kitchen.
Main lanai.
I thought this was a chameleon, but now I'm not so sure. He was very slow moving. Careful and precise.
Ants. Many, many ants.



































