i'm keeping with my routines. in fact, i had the vision of the relentless cycling of my routines, so much that i spiral up and improve dramatically... but yes, tomorrow begins the working with the kids again, and all of my other obligations, so that's not really going to happen. but i can dream, can't i? this idea of approaching perfection. or at least, making a difference.
so this morning, after an early start, and monitoring the plants and washing the dishes, i went with my wife over to the farmer's market at mililani high school. i bought an oxtail pho, and some thai iced tea, and some spring rolls (i didn't eat those, my wife did). my wife, for her part, was looking for some special honey that she had used in her teriyaki sauce (it was GOOD). and then we went back home...
later, i convinced lynn to go out again. we headed out to the windward side of the island. i think that the very first place we went to was the aquaponics store in waimanalo. i actually spent $80 there. asked the guy that worked there (i think his name is travis) about hydroponics. he gave me a brief run-down, something about how plants have a vegetative state and a fruiting/blooming state. some plants have only a vegetative state (like lettuce, or other leafy greens, where the "vegetable" is the leaves of the plant), whereas others that go through a blossoming phase and a fruiting phase... well, you get the idea. anyway, travis explained that these require two different nutrient solutions... so i got them, and i also got something for algae (just remembered it!) because one of my aquaponics tanks has water that is murky green from all the algae that has taken up in it. (don't know why it is just that tank- the first tank, the original one, turned a murky brown due to all the tannic acid buildup in it- and then, when exposed to sunlight, it cleared up- and now, it's starting to turn brown again).
after the aquaponics store, we went over to bob's pizzeria in kailua. we ate a couple of slices while they were fresh. then, we headed over to foodland to pick up a couple of flowers to lay at lynn's family graves. it was slim pickings over at foodland, but we managed to get 3 roses, in varying states of decay. we headed over to the memorial grave (i can't quite remember what the name of the graveyard is, but it is the big one that you can see when you come out of the tunnel on the windward side). we found the hashimoto graves quickly, and she laid the flowers while i disposed of the trash.
our last stopoff before heading home was to the koolau farmers store. like the aquaponics place, it was actually pretty busy. i guess that home gardening is a big thing during this whole coronavirus thing. anyway, i got about 5 recumbent junipers. i decided to use them in the middle to back end of the planter box on the right side of my house, because 1) that side is dedicated to being more ornamental (complimenting the walking path), 2) there is less sunlight there, so it's inappropriate to plant vegetables, and 3) i'm hoping that when those plants get big they serve as a deterant against all the stinking cats...
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anyway, nothing much else to report.
i feel a mild sense of panic when i think about the state of the world right now. the warning sign is that there are long lines at the food bank. whenever people go hungry, then things go to shit. that's my opinion. unfortunately, we have the worst government right now, run by republicans. if we fail, it's not because of the disaster of the virus, but the disaster of mismanagement and corruption that "addressed" it.
you heard it here first. :P
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