Moving Along

So before we start talking about the house project, we better explain a couple things.  You may see us writing about where we live in the town of Waimea, but then if you post us any mail, you have to put the town of Kamuela on the envelope, not Waimea.  One explanation I thought was because the Hawaiian language has only 13 letters (5 vowels and 8 consonants), that might explain why, for example, there is a Waimea on nearly every island.  With only 13 letters, the combination of letters to make words would be less, therefore, some names were just repeated.  But our Hawaii historian, Marilyn, set me straight.  Yes, it's true there are lots of Waimeas, but that is because Waimea means "red dirt"  and there's a lot of it in Hawaii.  Now the first postmaster of Waimea, during the Hawaii pony express days, was a guy by the name of Kamuela (which means Samuel in Hawaiian), so to avoid confusion over which Waimea to send a letter to, people would designate Kamuela's name on the envelope to make sure it got to the right "Waimea" post office.  And the rest is history, the town is still called Waimea, but the USPS kept Kamuela's name as the designate town address.  So call it Waimea but send it to Kamuela.

So lets take a look at some red dirt.

They are just about done grading the slab.  The forms are up.

The boss is checking out the plumbing situation.  The plumber came yesterday
to put in all the pipes and drainage to the septic.  Now we have to
wait for the inspector to approve the work before the final preparations
for the cement work.