We had a busy day today, by Molokai standards anyway.
My wife noticed we were running out of paper towels and I wanted to go to the TruValue so we headed into Kaunakakai. We stopped at The Bank of Hawaii first. I had to check and see if they received our annual insurance statement.
Then we went to TruValue, I wanted to pickup some rope for when I tie down that darn car cover again.
We got a few other things that we wanted to do some other things around the condo, a brush to clean our screens and a hose nozzle. They don’t have one on the hose to wash your car here so we just grabbed one and we’ll take it down when we need to use it. Then we got some paint and a paint brush to do some touch ups around the condo. Lastly some caulk for around the bathroom sink. Wow, I’m going to be busy.
After that we stopped at Misaki’s again for a few things and Papar towels. They had pork chops on sale so we grabbed some of those.
Then it was time for a late lunch so we went over to Ono’s Fish and Shrimp. We got some Fish and Chips and a couple of Fish Tacos. We brought it all back and enjoyed it all on the lanai.
After we finished, I noticed there was no one at the pool so I went down for a quick swim. It was pretty crowded this weekend so I didn’t go down there. My wife was a little tired from our trip to town so she stayed in the condo.
The weather was perfect again so after my swim, I grabbed a lounger and got some sun. Then a few people came down so I was able to meet a few other owners.
Cathy has owned here for 16 years and has lived here for the last 11 years. They started out with a one bedroom and then years later a two bedroom became available so they bought that and sold their one bedroom. They also had a studio on the west side but just rented that out but they sold that a few years ago. She says about 12 people/couples live here full time. That’s more than I thought. I was thinking 5 or 6.
Shortly after Cathy came to the pool a couple came in and introduced themselves. They just purchased a few months ago. They are from Minnesota and they plan on being here for about 5 months a year, November through March. They may stay a little longer this year because of COVID. I talked with them for quite a while. She just retired at 65 and he has been retired for 17 years already and is 79. We talked about doing things to our condos and I was able to tell them how we bought things and got some things done. They are in the C building just like Cathy.
Cathy was saying that the majority of the people who live here full time are in the C building. She said about 10 years ago most lived in B building. Most people who own in the oceanfront A building, come for a month or two and rent it out the rest of the time.
I invited both Cathy and the couple from Minnesota over to see our condo. Sounds like they will stop over tomorrow. They want to meet my wife too and then we’ll stop over by their condos.
We also meet the people right next door to us. They are from Massachusetts and are renting the unit month to month. I know that unit was rented as short term vacation rentals like we do but they probably wanted some income with COVID and decided to go with a month to month rental.
So a busy day for us.
Plus a full moon tonight.
After we do our visiting tomorrow, we plan on taking a ride to the west side and then having an early dinner at Paddlers. We’ll see what we get done.