Happy New Year from the Roosters

Just a short blog.  So if you listen closely, you'll hear the fighting roosters crowing you a Happy New Year in their language.

 

I told you the Hawaiians are serious about their fireworks.  Here's how one family sets up their triple boom to ward off the evil spirits for the new year.  You can see the remaining fireworks hanging from the string across the two poles.  I don't think the truck was there when they lit them off.

 

So over New Years Eve and day we got about 4 inches of rain.  This was a pasture, now it's a lake. If you notice to the left of the telephone pole there's a cement canal that filters the runoff into the pasture. There's a type of berm or levee to the left to keep the water from flooding the road behind it where we walk.  I wouldn't build a house here.  Now this picture and the one below were taken within a half hour of each other and are only about three city blocks away.  That's how fast the weather can change here with the trade winds.

One of our walking areas.  Sooo green! This pasture and corral houses some horses belonging to Richard, one of our main builders.  He's a builder, cattle rancher, and we just learned a Division 1 fastpitch softball umpire. His son is riding the horse in the background.