Even more changes to show here. They've started to prime the house, our front doors are in place (along with some of the side and interior doors) and they've put down the forms for our concrete driveways. Oh, and the rainbow we ordered finally arrived. That took weeks to get here! Most driveways are made out of concrete around here because they stand up better under the unrelenting, semi-tropical sun. Asphalt gets too soft.


That is a real rainbow, by the way. We didn't add it digitally. There was a faint secondary rainbow, too, but you can't see it very well in this picture. It does rain a lot around here, but there are compensations...like this.

We've been lucky to have a string of dry days recently, so not only were they able to finish the priming, but they were able to begin the real painting as well. We're used to using stain on a house, but around here everyone says paint is the way to go. We've learned not to second guess our builder.

Inside the house, work continues. The insulation was being installed on this date, and the delivery of sheetrock was expected the following day. We thought long and hard about insulating, but finally decided it was worth it for the sound insulation value and because it would reduce temperature fluctuations. On those frigid days during the seemingly endless Hawaiian winter, when the temperature plummets to the low 60's, it should be possible to heat the house by closing the windows and lighting a candle.