Alternative Activities? (Read 24894 times)

astroboy

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #40 on: March 27, 2020, 11:49:24 PM »
I feel your pain.

mrgaf

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #41 on: March 28, 2020, 10:16:21 AM »
My old lady is driving me nuts but after 50 years of being hitched I’m numb....
A nice little ditty...

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.  Thomas Paine.

No man can get rich in politics unless he is a crook.  It cannot be done. Harry Truman

Only good liberal is one taking a dirt nap.

RSN172

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #42 on: March 28, 2020, 10:40:32 AM »
I am not in the least bored staying home.  Got a 3 acre lot surrounded by vacant lots.  Can shoot, clear more area, build stuff, make hidden storage spots outside of my lot in the forest, start my hydroponic garden, endless things to do.  Plus I like staying home.

I wonder how many apartment dwellers are going to get fat with nothing to do but watch TV and snack.
Happily living in Puna

passivekinetic

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #43 on: March 28, 2020, 11:13:26 AM »
I am not in the least bored staying home.  Got a 3 acre lot surrounded by vacant lots.  Can shoot, clear more area, build stuff, make hidden storage spots outside of my lot in the forest, start my hydroponic garden, endless things to do.  Plus I like staying home.

I wonder how many apartment dwellers are going to get fat with nothing to do but watch TV and snack.

LOL one should not binge on food now that it's not 100% certain one can easily (or cheaply) get more food in the coming times.

There's a reason they call it LEAN YEARS.
"The sheep fear sheepdogs, because they fail to see the wolves."
- Anonymous

Flapp_Jackson

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #44 on: March 29, 2020, 10:45:09 AM »
I did some cutting of vegetation around my house yesterday.  I have two large, over-stuffed tarps to haul.

I called Hawaiian Earth Products where we drop off our green waste for recycling to make sure their hours haven't changed for the situation.

The woman who answered said they were told 2 days ago they are not accepting drop-offs from residential customers.   :wtf:

Only municipal/curb side pickup trucks can drop off now.

This is crazy.  There is nowhere to put this waste, and it'll get more decayed and become a huge mess to haul in a month or more.

The employees don't even have to come into contact with us.  There's a window they open, and you talk to them from your truck.  It's at least 6 feet of separation.  In fact, if they don't have to say anything, they can leave the window shut and just wave you through.

Totally unacceptable.  You know people will be doing yard work during the lockdown.

I've got enough cuttings as it stands now for at least 8 curbside bins.  If I used my regular can, too, it'll take 4 pick-ups to get rid of what I have, not counting all I need to cut still.

Pickup is every other week, so that's 8 weeks to get rid of this stuff -- the green can pickup was yesterday, so the clock is reset for 2 weeks from now.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

hvybarrels

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #45 on: March 29, 2020, 10:53:31 AM »
I did some cutting of vegetation around my house yesterday.  I have two large, over-stuffed tarps to haul.

I called Hawaiian Earth Products where we drop off our green waste for recycling to make sure their hours haven't changed for the situation.

The woman who answered said they were told 2 days ago they are not accepting drop-offs from residential customers.   :wtf:

Only municipal/curb side pickup trucks can drop off now.

This is crazy.  There is nowhere to put this waste, and it'll get more decayed and become a huge mess to haul in a month or more.

The employees don't even have to come into contact with us.  There's a window they open, and you talk to them from your truck.  It's at least 6 feet of separation.  In fact, if they don't have to say anything, they can leave the window shut and just wave you through.

Totally unacceptable.  You know people will be doing yard work during the lockdown.

I've got enough cuttings as it stands now for at least 8 curbside bins.  If I used my regular can, too, it'll take 4 pick-ups to get rid of what I have, not counting all I need to cut still.

Pickup is every other week, so that's 8 weeks to get rid of this stuff -- the green can pickup was yesterday, so the clock is reset for 2 weeks from now.

https://www.gardenmyths.com/how-to-compost-browns-greens/
I’m becoming clinically undepressed and thinking about beginning it all.

Flapp_Jackson

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

drck1000

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #47 on: March 29, 2020, 11:05:39 AM »
My place hasn't been this clean and organized in a LONG time!   :crazy:  :rofl:

I need to go through my shooting parts and accessories and find what I could use, what I could give away, and what I should flat out dump. Sometimes I find that I need a part or something and I think I have it.  Go searching for it and when I don't find it, end up buying another.  Then months later, while looking for something else, I'll find the item that I needed months before.  :facepalm: 

Heavies

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #48 on: March 29, 2020, 11:12:21 AM »
My place hasn't been this clean and organized in a LONG time!   :crazy:  :rofl:

I need to go through my shooting parts and accessories and find what I could use, what I could give away, and what I should flat out dump. Sometimes I find that I need a part or something and I think I have it.  Go searching for it and when I don't find it, end up buying another.  Then months later, while looking for something else, I'll find the item that I needed months before.  :facepalm: 

My problem as well.  Going to build some shelves and really start organizing stuff.

dogman

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #49 on: March 29, 2020, 11:14:18 AM »
Is the Koko Head Hiking Trail open?

macsak

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #50 on: March 29, 2020, 12:38:44 PM »
Is the Koko Head Hiking Trail open?

not supposed to be, but I bet people still are climbing...

RSN172

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #51 on: March 29, 2020, 01:17:41 PM »
Not an option with my limited yard.
That is one thing I loved about moving to the BI.  I had 7500 sf lot in Kailua, now I have a 130,680 sf lot.  I cleared an area of about 8000 sf solely to dump green waste.  With a backhoe to push and stack the debris, it should last for years.  A mound I made about 3 years ago is covered with grass, taro and banana trees growing on it.
Happily living in Puna

Flapp_Jackson

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #52 on: March 29, 2020, 03:33:43 PM »
That is one thing I loved about moving to the BI.  I had 7500 sf lot in Kailua, now I have a 130,680 sf lot.  I cleared an area of about 8000 sf solely to dump green waste.  With a backhoe to push and stack the debris, it should last for years.  A mound I made about 3 years ago is covered with grass, taro and banana trees growing on it.

My plot is 60x100.  The house and 32x18 inground pool use up most of that.

Still, I seem to have a never-ending battle keeping the plant life in check.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

aieahound

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #53 on: March 29, 2020, 04:22:51 PM »
Just take it to a transfer station that accepts green waste.
Kapaa Quarry, Kawailoa, etc.

Flapp_Jackson

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #54 on: March 29, 2020, 05:42:09 PM »
Just take it to a transfer station that accepts green waste.
Kapaa Quarry, Kawailoa, etc.

Not driving from Mililani to Kailua just to make a green waste run.

The Schofield convenience center station stopped accepting green material when the Hawaiian Earth Products recycler started.

I'll try calling the Waialua convenience center on the North Shore tomorrow.  They ought to still take green waste.  Still a drive, but I've done it before when the Schofield center was full.
« Last Edit: March 29, 2020, 05:47:48 PM by Flapp_Jackson »
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world;
the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-- George Bernard Shaw

RSN172

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #55 on: March 29, 2020, 05:58:09 PM »
Make like how dey do in da Nalo back roads.  Get plenny old pineapple fields ova dea.  LOL.
Happily living in Puna

aieahound

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #56 on: March 29, 2020, 06:51:58 PM »
Not driving from Mililani to Kailua just to make a green waste run.

I didn’t figure you would.
That’s why I also mentioned Kawailoa.

Although a long cruise doesn’t sound terrible just to get in the cruise and out of the house in a safe environment. ( the car)
And you get the bonus of accomplishing something at the same time.

mrgaf

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #57 on: March 29, 2020, 07:45:12 PM »
Tore down and rebuilt a fence on one side of the hooch today... painting tomorrow... :D
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.  Thomas Paine.

No man can get rich in politics unless he is a crook.  It cannot be done. Harry Truman

Only good liberal is one taking a dirt nap.

RSN172

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #58 on: March 29, 2020, 07:54:24 PM »
Tore down and rebuilt a fence on one side of the hooch today... painting tomorrow... :D
Going rain. ;D
Happily living in Puna

oldfart

Re: Alternative Activities?
« Reply #59 on: March 29, 2020, 08:16:11 PM »
Not driving from Mililani to Kailua just to make a green waste run.

The Schofield convenience center station stopped accepting green material when the Hawaiian Earth Products recycler started.

I'll try calling the Waialua convenience center on the North Shore tomorrow.  They ought to still take green waste.  Still a drive, but I've done it before when the Schofield center was full.
...
There is a transfer station in waipahu near the police academy.
It's fairly close to mililani.
Depot road.
What, Me Worry?