is it NESTING time?

I'm still recuperating! My kitchen is clean and now to get rid of this pile and that pile of stuff. I need my workroom back to organized because I can't do any work in this condition! The yard is looking better and better and it's nice to look out the window (now that I cleaned those too!). What is the use of having a view if the windows are dirty?

On weekends I try to call home, call my Mom in Vegas, catch up on laundry and housework (it's never done) and I need to visit or have grand kids come and mess up things! I wrote an e-mail to my brother and that was so-o-o long because we both are so busy and don't keep up with each other. I miss him. He is special to me. If we were living in Hawai'i I would be so into the PROJECTS mode and always running to Kahuku for this and that. As it is, when I go home he gives me hints of projects to begin and then I research and try to get them done. Now that the performance ipu heke is finished, I have the la'amia from last time and they have been calling my name. Also calling is the bone I collected and the instructions and directions for carving. I know the process, the designing and actually doing the hands on is what I've NOT done aside from preparing the bone and collecting hand tools. I think Kawika will take this on. And--of course, there is the ukulele!

My shop is all set up and now to go through the step-by-step and see if I have everything I need. Believe it or not, I've actually been working at this! I have wrecked a few pieces of wood in the process, and am excited at the challenge to do better.

Well, I guess I'd better get going to work!!!--Leona