This week’s project was to construct a small plant nursery so that we can start our next batch of Yasi seedlings. One of Arthur’s cousins provided us with approximately 1000 Yasi seeds. Yasi seeds don’t have a long shelf life so it’s important to plant them soon after they’ve been gathered to ensure the...
I’ve had some questions sent to me about if I’ve been able to do any quilting yet. The simple answer is not yet but it got me thinking about writing a blog about how we are managing our power requirements. Firstly our location is approximately 30 kms away from the nearest power grid in...
Unfortunately my pocket Wi-Fi device which allows me to access the internet was fried by a power surge when charging it on an old generator. So the only Internet access I’ve had for the past month is 3G on Arthur’s ipad and its not good enough to access my blog and upload pictures. We...
I’ve been back in Fiji for 2 weeks already. The first week I spent in Suva dealing with the immigration dept. After several months of waiting I finally received my spousal exemption visa. This visa is good for one year and allows me to stay in Fiji and come and go. It’s the first...
Well here I am on my way back to Fiji today and am currently sitting in the departure lounge in the Vancouver airport. I had planned to continue blogging during my visit to Canada but life got busy and I just didn’t get to it. Several of my friends have asked me if I’m...
Our two weeks in Suva have been spent dealing the importation of our Container, visiting with family, as well as squeezing in a bit of site seeing. We thought that allowing a week to clear our container would be ample time but this is Fiji and what we think is reasonable will always need...
Unfortunately my data allowance for my internet connection had an expiry date that I was not aware of and when I was going to post an update last week I was not able to access the internet. I’ve recharged my data and now I’m good for another month. The wet season is now upon...
Arthur is very lucky this year; he gets two Father’s Days. He had on in Canada in June and today is Father’s Day in Fiji. Only problem, the kids are all back in Canada so there’s no one to celebrate with. We were not able to get the ATV registered in Savusavu as planned...
Our crew has been hard at work planting the Yasi and we now have all of the 350 seedlings planted. We’ve hired a local logger to cut a few large trees and turn these into 2x4s and 8x1s with his chainsaw so that we can build a small kitchen building, outhouse, and a deck...
The crew from Suva arrived yesterday at about 2:30pm. With their help we set up our base camp and settled in for an evening of relaxation. No sooner than we had our cup of tea, a group of young men arrived with yagona (kava or grog). We all enjoyed a few bowls of grog...