making an offer

Booyah! We're making an offer on 2 acres tomorrow morning. Holy crap batman.

In the meantime, we already have the garden going - hydroponics style, with 47 different veggies or grains. We have 70+ plumeria cuttings, 30+ crown flower cuttings, a producing coffee tree, baby mango & 3 baby avocado . Now all we need is the land to plant it! Crossing the fingers!

Should be growing our own food, feeding the butterflies & making awesome leis within 6 months if this works out!

welcome Charlie!

There's a million things to blog about. I'm way behind & lots is going on. However, I'm going to throw in one quick post to welcome our Monarch Butterfly 'Charlie' into the world. He hatched out this morning...two days early little stinker!

Charlie is our first butterfly! His predecessors, Alpha and Bravo, both died in the pupae stage (Alpha fell & splatted, Bravo had a lethal parasite).

Delta and Echo are both pupating right now & should appear in 9 days if they don't have the dreaded parasite too.

Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Kilo, Juliet & Lima are still caterpillars & are munching away on Crown Flower leaves in the schwanky 'Butterfly Castle' we purchased.

We're raising monarchs quite by accident & totally loving it! We're going to turn our screened lanai into an indoor monarch house. Woo! Helping an endangered species is WAY FUN.