Friday morning, July 2, Andrea and I decorated the entry-way for the weekend.
Sunday, July 4, Andrea and I volunteered in the morning at the Keawawa wetland in Hawaii Kai.
I watered some ti plants at the hale. They were quite dry. Photo by Andrea.
Me, Andrea, Eric, and Lolly. Photo by Malakai.
It was ten foot surf at Diamond Head.
Looking toward Black Point. Photo by Andrea.
Thursday morning we walked down the Hind Drive bridge to take a look on a bright sunny day.
After two months, the bonsai olive is coming along well.
Lots of history and quotations to read as we go in. Photo by Andrea.
Andrea reading descriptive text.
As we enter the main room.
In the main room: all four walls and the floor receive projections.
After defoliating and wiring. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
Close-up rear quarter view to show wiring detail. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
We arrived early and set up a table and three chairs.
We had good attendance for our first in-person meeting in nearly two years.
After the business part of the meeting we had show and tell. I talked about my kukui and guava forest.
John talked about his tropical boxwood root-on-rock trees.
The hau trees had been pruned so much that they had to put up umbrellas on the lanai.
Monday afternoon I photographed my premna root-on-rock with accent plant for my bonsai book. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
It began to drizzle and the tennis players seemed to eschew duck tennis.
In the afternoon I photographed a black pine in its growing pot for use in my bonsai book. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
The black pine after the wiring and trunk bending. Its height has been reduced to 10 inches from 20. Photo by Andrea.
When looking at a business or industry, ask which externalities it uses to turn an undue profit.Environmental externalities are where a company harvests from the environment, or pollutes, and otherwise degrades the environment, rather than returning it to a similarly natural state.
Governmental externalities are where a company or industry relies on government subsidies, special tax incentives, or publicly funded infrastructure. Could you imagine how expensive a car would be if included in the price was it's share of road cost? Or the cost of foreign wars to secure oil?
Labor externalities are where the worker's own time, sweat, discomfort, or danger is not adequately compensated for, and subsidizes company profits. Think firemen, and teachers and the way their disposition to be heros is leveraged against poor wages.
Consumer externalities are where the true costs of a product or service are obscured, by way of engineered planned obsolescence, or hidden harmful side effects. Think cigarettes, cell phones, cars, candy, and appliances that can be made to last a lifetime.
Capitalism is really efficient at hiding the externalities that amount to privatizing the commons, privatizing profit, and making the public pay for the losses.
We moved onto the lanai for the talk.
Saturday afternoon Andrea and I went to help Gavan test the new solar power unit. Photo by Andrea
It gave 250 watts after 4:00 PM.
I bought some pine boards to make a box to plant the forest in. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
I made a smaller box too and painted them both. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
The milos after defoliating. Click the image to see the full resolution version.
The milo forest after assembly in the growing box.
Screen capture from the training session.
Bezos and Branson both returned from suborbital flights this month. Liberal meme via Facebook.
Group photo. Next to me is Councilman Tommy Waters.
Alex led the introductive talk.
Eleven of us headed off to Paiko Beach.
Alex gives a limu species recognition talk in front of Ralph's (in cloth brimmed hat) house.
Out in the water pulling invasive limu.
On the way back I saw this milo tree on Paiko Beach.
On the way back from my first radiation treatment on Liliha we stopped to take out lunch at L&L Drive Inn.
Screen shot from the Zoom meeting. 28 eventually attended.
Zoom screen grab.
My poinciana, in bonsai training, is blooming.
My bonsai chokan citrus is ready for repotting. I will use the larger pot because it needs root work.
Shrimp egg rolls. Photo by Andrea.
Shrimp laksa. Photo by Andrea.
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