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Trick or Treat, Waiting for Inflow
Nov. 1st, 2022 05:14 pmTRICK OR TREAT
So we've had our first proper Halloween on Kauai. Part of that was that we were out in town doing the weekly shopping, and so we got to see folks in costume. Most of the staff at the Target and Costco we went to, actually.
And then at home that evening we got our first trick or treaters. Because there were no trick or treaters in 2020, and in 2021 we were still COVID-reluctant enough that we left our lights off. But this year we got a grand total of *1* group of kids. About a half dozen.
One of them was apparently enchanted by Mango, who was looking out the windows while I gave out treats. Kimberly later held him up, and made the little girl's day.
I told them to feel free to take more than one candy as I held out of bowl of assorted sweets and one of the girls just kept taking and taking, which was fine. I later looked and discovered she'd taken all the good stuff: most of the Kit Kats and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Leaving what I now think of as the adult candy: Whoppers, Rolos, Milk Duds, and Heath Bars.
I told them to feel free because they were the first kids of the evening and it was already late enough that I'd considered turning off the lights. That surprised the older kid who was chaperoning the group. Do you think it's because of the "Do Not Enter" sign, he asked, pointing back to the head of the street. I told him no, that was just because it was one way, but he then asked if it was a private road, and I said no.
Only later did I realize that he'd perhaps never seen a one-way street. They're really rare on Kauai, with the county instead just jamming people down narrow streets from both directions. But from what I've heard, our street became one way when the school went in down the hill from us. Because it likely wouldn't have been OK jamming cars onto the street from both ways when there is a little bit that's just more than one car width wide and there would have potentially been a constant stream of cars from the school. (There actually was the year we moved in but after COVID they apparently redid their pick-up and drop off methodology, because we no longer get streams of cars in the morning when kids are dropped off, which is a big win.)
So that was our mighty Halloween. I guess we'll probably get candy again next year. Most of what we have left this year is the stuff Kimberly likes.
(Well, it was our first proper Halloween in Kauai other than the fact that we were here for Halloween 2001 and went out to Keoki's for dinner and saw some costumes, but didn't have any trick or treaters at Waikomo Stream, where we were staying. Nor would I have expected any since it's a gated community.)
WAITING FOR INFLOW
Meanwhile, we continue to hurry up and wait.
After three calls, our local Benz maintenance shop has ordered the "harness" we need to fix Julie's A/C. It's coming from the mainland, of course. No idea when it'll show up, though the real question will be when we should start calling to ask if it's shown up. (They *have* proactively called before for that sort of thing, but that's the exception, not the rule.) For the moment I've decided: after Thanksgiving.
We are still waiting to hear from Home Depot cabinet-triage woman. Kimberly and I worked through the big confusing invoice of our cabinet purchase (and learned that one of its main deficits is that it lists adjustments to the existing cabinets as new numbered line items) and figured out what was missing. Which turns out to be three boards intended as toe kicks to mount under our wall-hung cabinets. We notified cabinet-triage-lady a bit more than a week ago, and discovered she was out of town for a week. But it's been two more days since then. We need the missing stuff (which could be in the mail as it happens, but we haven't been able to confirm that either) before I'm willing to get our carpenters out here working, so the ever-stalling Family Room and Office work is again stalling.
Life should return to our normal patterns next week, as the folks are returning to the island after a granddaughter visit.
But we're also heading off to San Jose and Berkeley for Thanksgiving, though that's still a few weeks away.
So we've had our first proper Halloween on Kauai. Part of that was that we were out in town doing the weekly shopping, and so we got to see folks in costume. Most of the staff at the Target and Costco we went to, actually.
And then at home that evening we got our first trick or treaters. Because there were no trick or treaters in 2020, and in 2021 we were still COVID-reluctant enough that we left our lights off. But this year we got a grand total of *1* group of kids. About a half dozen.
One of them was apparently enchanted by Mango, who was looking out the windows while I gave out treats. Kimberly later held him up, and made the little girl's day.
I told them to feel free to take more than one candy as I held out of bowl of assorted sweets and one of the girls just kept taking and taking, which was fine. I later looked and discovered she'd taken all the good stuff: most of the Kit Kats and Reeses Peanut Butter Cups. Leaving what I now think of as the adult candy: Whoppers, Rolos, Milk Duds, and Heath Bars.
I told them to feel free because they were the first kids of the evening and it was already late enough that I'd considered turning off the lights. That surprised the older kid who was chaperoning the group. Do you think it's because of the "Do Not Enter" sign, he asked, pointing back to the head of the street. I told him no, that was just because it was one way, but he then asked if it was a private road, and I said no.
Only later did I realize that he'd perhaps never seen a one-way street. They're really rare on Kauai, with the county instead just jamming people down narrow streets from both directions. But from what I've heard, our street became one way when the school went in down the hill from us. Because it likely wouldn't have been OK jamming cars onto the street from both ways when there is a little bit that's just more than one car width wide and there would have potentially been a constant stream of cars from the school. (There actually was the year we moved in but after COVID they apparently redid their pick-up and drop off methodology, because we no longer get streams of cars in the morning when kids are dropped off, which is a big win.)
So that was our mighty Halloween. I guess we'll probably get candy again next year. Most of what we have left this year is the stuff Kimberly likes.
(Well, it was our first proper Halloween in Kauai other than the fact that we were here for Halloween 2001 and went out to Keoki's for dinner and saw some costumes, but didn't have any trick or treaters at Waikomo Stream, where we were staying. Nor would I have expected any since it's a gated community.)
WAITING FOR INFLOW
Meanwhile, we continue to hurry up and wait.
After three calls, our local Benz maintenance shop has ordered the "harness" we need to fix Julie's A/C. It's coming from the mainland, of course. No idea when it'll show up, though the real question will be when we should start calling to ask if it's shown up. (They *have* proactively called before for that sort of thing, but that's the exception, not the rule.) For the moment I've decided: after Thanksgiving.
We are still waiting to hear from Home Depot cabinet-triage woman. Kimberly and I worked through the big confusing invoice of our cabinet purchase (and learned that one of its main deficits is that it lists adjustments to the existing cabinets as new numbered line items) and figured out what was missing. Which turns out to be three boards intended as toe kicks to mount under our wall-hung cabinets. We notified cabinet-triage-lady a bit more than a week ago, and discovered she was out of town for a week. But it's been two more days since then. We need the missing stuff (which could be in the mail as it happens, but we haven't been able to confirm that either) before I'm willing to get our carpenters out here working, so the ever-stalling Family Room and Office work is again stalling.
Life should return to our normal patterns next week, as the folks are returning to the island after a granddaughter visit.
But we're also heading off to San Jose and Berkeley for Thanksgiving, though that's still a few weeks away.