What to do while waiting for the slab to cure

So, the weather has changed and it hasn't rained since New Years.  We're waiting for the slab to cure before anything else happens, so rather than twiddle our thumbs we gave Tony a hand with some winter firewood gathering.  

It actually got down to 49 degrees the other night, but of course went right back up to 74 during the day.  So the Priettos have a wood stove to take the chill off and thus the need for some firewood.  We'll have a wood stove also, so the wood we got will be shared.  The firewood people here like to burn is Kiawe (pronounced "key ah vay").  It belongs to the mesquite family, so it's also good for smoking meat as well.  It's a hard wood and it needs to be cut thin in order to split easier.  Wood is easy to come by here, so one should never have to buy it.  Someone always knows someone and Keone,  Marilyn's cousin told Tony at the New Years Party he had to take some Kiawe trees out at his construction site and to come and get it.

Of course the ride to and from the place was just gorgeous, so I wanted to share some of the photos we took.  This is why we moved here.

This is a Kiawe tree

Tony and I checking out the wood

Notice the core is brown with a lighter ring around the outside

It seems a little like an oxymoron getting firewood in the winter with shorts and a tee shirt

So this is what we look at while loading wood.

Too gorgeous for words.

Coming down the hill looking at Mauna Kea and part of Waimea

And while we were gone another calf was born across the street in the pasture.

We were able to witness the first standing.  Mom got tired and sat.