Limahuli Hale 2 construction: O'a

Hale work continued here at Limahuli Garden with a smaller crew. The rain and wind continued, making the work difficult: much of Hawaii got hit today we later learned.

Before planting the roof beam support posts there was a simple ceremony to provide mana (hard to translate ... "good vibrations" perhaps) by placing a lehua (sacrifice: in modern times, a fish) under each of the two posts.

The roof ridge went up and we cut and placed several of the o'a that run up from the outside posts to the roof ridge.

With intermittent wind gusts and rain squalls sweeping through all day long the tarp tent that had been set up was threatening to blow away. Instead of that we tied the tarp up under the olokea (the scaffolding) and everyone ducked under there when the weather was too intense to work safely. Nonetheless, everyone got quite wet and muddy.