Nannette Harrington

My family here in Hawaii: John Doolittle came with me to the last class reunion, Tramp is the Great DaneXRottweiler, Rex is the Cockatiel on John's shoulder, Moonshadow is the Himalayan on my lap, and Pax is the Alsatian ShepherdXGolden Retriever. Now shown Adele, my sister-in-law taking the shot, two nephews, Jack, 6 & Connor, 3, creating distractions, and brother Kevin who all live just up the hill from us.
 

The beginning of our farm: July 1996, after I just finished pulling out all the waist-high weeds.
 

1998, after planting bananas, papaya, veggies and landscaping. The ditch was built by the county for flood control, routing run-off into a big cave (old lava tube) by our house. There isn't much soil on our side of the island, (too new geologically) so I started the gardens where they had bulldozed together what little dirt there is to build the ditch. The horses in background are clearing and fertilizing our future coffee orchard.
 

1998, another shot of horses clearing coffee land, with Adele and Jack. That haze at the horizon of ocean and shy is vog - volcano smog.
 

1999, a day without vog after we planted the coffee seedlings.
 

2000, our first coffee bloom (aka "Kona Snow"). These trees are all well overhead now.
 

2000, John's sister and her boyfriend learning how to pick coffee. Sorry, I don't have any shots of the real thing, but when I pick I look a whole lot more like Juan Valdez, in flannel shirt, sweat pants, heavy boots, hat and gloves to protect myself from sun, mosquitos, and coffee branches.
 

2001, bananas, papayas, etc. after a few year's growth.
 

2002, our new kitten catching rays with the coffee. This little "hoshidana" (drying shed) under our deck table is supposed to be for the drying steps of hand-processing coffee, but Luna thinks it's her private lanai.