| We finally moved out of our hovel at Hawaiian Paradise Inn and into a house near the one we were planning to buy. The owner of our future house, Michel (pronounced "Michelle") knew the woman, Winna, who owned the house behind him. He was somewhat of a caretaker for the house because she was here very rarely, traveling quite a bit and living in California. He had arranged with her to let us rent the house for a few weeks until the paperwork went through on the purchase of his house. This gave us a good chance to get familiar with the neighborhood. It also allowed us to finally get a permanent address by obtaining a mailbox in our subdivision, Kalapana Seaview Estates. "Estates" is an optimistic term since the lots were only 1/8 acre in size. CLICK IMAGES TO ENLARGE |
| Since we're in the neighborhood, we might as well check out our future house. We haven't moved in yet, but there it is, right in the back yard! The "Phone Booth" is the only place we can get a cell phone signal (maybe!). |
| That's it. Not much to it. I'm not able to show you the interior because even though I have a wide angle lens, the house is so small, I can't back up far enough to get a picture. The one of Michelle and Robin is the best I can do inside. The first thing I want to do with the house is jack it up and add another floor underneath to make it a two-story house. Then we want to add lanais (porches) on the west side, the back, and the front. The ones on the west side and the back will be roofed and screened in, the one on the front will be open. By doing all that we will have increased the living space of the house threefold and taken up very little more of the tiny lot. |
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| This is the entrance to our subdivision, on the left side of the loop off Kalapana-Kapoho Road |
| This is looking up the center road of our subdivision |
| This is looking back down the center road at the mailboxes and the park area inside the loop |
| This is looking back down the right loop from the end of our street. That blue thing in the middle is the Pacific Ocean! |
| This is looking up our street, Ho'eunalu (Ho-ay-oo-na-lu). We live in the last lot on the left, just past that gray car. |
| This is Winna's house, the next street up from ours, just in back of our house. |
| This is a view of the house as you first come upon it on the street. This is the southwest corner. Note the solar panels on the roof. We plan to add more and some more batteries too so that we have greater capacity. |
| This is a view of the east side of the house, opposite side from the previous photo |
| Michel, the previous owner, and Robin |
| This is looking from the Northwest. Robin and Michael in the window. The sheet of plywood sticking out from the house on the left is the shower. |
| The catchment water tank. 1500 gallons. It is hooked up to the gutters of the house with 3" plastic pipe so that every time it rains, the water runs into the tank. |
| This is a view of the back of the house where the shower is. The white box hanging on the wall is the tankless water heater. |
| This is looking up the street of the right loop (magenta line). Our street is to the right about as far as you can see. |
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| Monday, March 27 |
Moved into Winna's house
| The is the first of a panoramic sequence of the park area in the loop. We call it our "phone booth" because it's the only place anyone can get cell phone reception. Pretty nice phone booth, huh? |
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