Screen Spring Clean, Booster Boosts

[Note: This is another blog based on my weekly emails to my family on the mainland.]

4/2/22

Aloha All!

Hope you're thawing out.  Weather here is nice, despite having a fair amount of rain this week. One day it totaled .7" and last night we got at least half that again.  If it keeps this up our pool level may reach the overflow drain!

My eye exam last Saturday went very well.  No edema build-up so no shot needed.  However, the real question is if I can hold off having another injection until near the end of the month, so that I'll be ok during our trip in May.  Although I'm sure health care in Azerbaijan, Armenia, and Georgia is ok, I'd rather not have to find an eye doctor while we're traveling. The plan is to wait until April 23, another 4 weeks from the previous shot -- maybe a bit of a stretch, but so far so good.

My big house maintenance project this week was to honor the tradition of Spring Cleaning and wash the ventilation screens in our master bathroom.  These aren't your usual screens.  They were custom made for the large, triangular openings that are very high up in the eaves, and don't just pop in and out like regular screens.  To take them out requires a trip to the roof and loosening the 6 or so screws that holds each one to the frame.  I was the roof rat and Karen washed each one in the driveway as I took it down and put a clean one back up.  They were filthy.  Remember, these windows are never closed because they have no glass in them, and our Kona breeze carries through the house almost constantly.  Anyway, it was a fairly big job and definitely needed doing.  There are a few other smaller ventilation screens, but they'll just have to wait.

Our travel preparations are progressing.  We were relieved when it was announced this week that 2nd boosters have been approved.  It will make us as protected as we can get during the trip. I scheduled ours for April 13. This should allow enough time before we leave for the "booster-boosts" to have maximum effect, and also enough time so that any temporary reactions to the shots don't interfere with our usual last-minute preparations.  Our Covid situation is very good at the moment -- few hospitalizations and only about 120 active cases on the island.  It will be interesting to see what happens as this new, even more contagious variant becomes dominant, but for the moment we're enjoying the more relaxed restrictions.

Kona "Daffodils"

On Thursday I played golf with Karen and two of her friends.  I did so-so, and even got one par.  It didn't compensate, though, for the more frequent less-than-stellar shots of the day.  We got rained out on the last two holes, which was fine with me because I was getting pooped. Golf isn't a very physical game, but after roughly 140 strokes and quite a few do-overs, it can still be challenging. The course was looking much better after the rain we've been getting.  Saw quite a few Nenes and Peacocks, but no white Peahens.

Ok, off to market and breakfast.  Enjoy your change of seasons.  Try to withstand the buffeting winds of cruelty, extremism, power-mongering, selfishness, and greed we seem to be confronting these days.