Maui Part 2

Keanae/Hana

Now...this week has been very cold.  Like my skin is burning off my face cold.  Like I just peed my pants and my jeans have started to freeze to my leg.  The raccoons are hungry and they are desperate for food for their babies.  And though, when I think of the little fuzzy babies that sit waiting in the den, longing for nourishment, I feel bad and get kinda sad, my chickens will not be sacrificed on the alter.  And my boys see the sun in the morning and race to get outside only to be frost bitten and within about 10 minutes, come back in with bewilderment and haste.  It took like 15 minutes to get them layered and dressed and it was just a walk to the swing, the realization that the shovels are frozen solid in the green turtle and the disappointment that there is no mud.  Their spirits are squelched and they come back to the door, red and smelling like fresh air. 

I want mango bread and
I'm far from mango bread...


This week (in Bremerton) Eli took a big fall down an embankment at the beach.  Him and a friend were playing too close to the edge...it was an accident. His face was bleeding in 4 different places...his gum's turned black...he cried for so long.  We raced to the dentist.  He is going to be fine.  But his heart was left with a bruise.  He was scared and didn't understand why it happened.  Wednesday was hard...







While on our way to Hana we stopped and met a new friend.  Linda and Charles moved to Maui a few years ago.  Their kids had grown up and Charles was a native.  They are living in a house they are restoring and she's midwife and a beautiful artist.  They opened their home to us and showed us all their hard work. Oh and she has chickens!

And My Toes.  Warm on the dash...

Silas also broke out in hives this week.  He hadn't had milk in that last four weeks...we usually don't have it in the house, but I needed a change from oatmeal every morning so I started buying GF cereal.  Well since we got back from Hawaii we hadn't drank it.  Then this week we got some and he has had hives off and on all week.  I finally put all the pieces together.  So next week I'll give him some milk right before his doctor appointment and see if it happens again.  Wondering if it's all dairy or just milk?

This photo here...
It's a real place.
It's on the side of Maui that's mostly uninhabited.  But it's real and I keep it in my heart.  I drive this road and fill my heart with the light.  And I stand tall.