Homesteading in Hawaii

Bought a new truck...........roaches gone. Yup, the old truck had roaches, a common problem here in the tropics. Easiest way to ge...

"J" casually commented to me this morning about how cellphones have made working alone on a farm so much safer. It's easier to...

No, I haven't had surgery. And my artificial knees were really cheap...only $2 at the thrift store. Now that's a bargain!  Using kne...

Here's a quickie......how to make something to hang a rake on, in 10 seconds (longer if you're clumsy).  Take two nails and one hamm...

Corrosion is a common problem here, with the daily vog and acid rain. Most metal objects rust or otherwise corrode. And those that don't...

Strum, sputter, utt-putt, strum, sputter. Dang, that sounds horrible. Looks like the generator is trying to die on us. With all the clouds a...

(Note: it's been raining here so I haven't been getting photos taken. I'll add them later once the sun returns.)  First of all, ...

Equipment breaks. That's a fact of life. If I'm going to have farm equipment, i just have to accept that. Since my ATV gets used on ...

A new piece of equipment added to the list.....a used trailer. I've been looking for a trailer for a while, but everything so far has be...

.....Mower deck belt replacement..... When I was looking to buy a riding mower, several people told me that I had better learn to fix things...

Gotta flat! Actually, it's the second one since I've owned the ATV. Same tire. There's a lot of old bits of barbed wire on this ...

Overtime I've formed my own likes and dislikes when it comes to gloves. I really don't mind my hands getting dirty. So I'm not q...

I decided that I'm tired of mowing the lawn around our house. We never use the lawn. We thought that  we'd sit out there on lawn cha...

I finally broke down and expanded my equipment inventory. Another gasoline eating machine, a riding mower, or as I like to think of it, a la...

Simple swinging bar gate with center chain-lock. People around here who live on a half acre or more tend to have their properties gated....

A friend came by and caught me on my ATV.  On a small homestead farm, I have found that certain pieces of small equipment makes life n...