SMITHFARMS
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Smithfarms: Established in 1988 and on the Internet Since January 1999!
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home coffee honey macadamias candy order Smithfarms: Established in 1988 and on the Internet Since January 1999! |
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OUR FAMILY SUMMER VISITORS
Maile Bacon,Katie Bacon, Elisabeth Bacon, Jonah Bacon Gershman, Dave Gershman & Ezra Bacon Gershman
Grandson Jonah loves dogs August, 2005
Grand daughters Katie and Maile at Puuhonuaohonaunau
Maile, Ezra, Jonah and Bob going up to the watertank
Thunder's lucky moments with Jonah, Ezra and Maile
on the front porch before bedtime and some older photos
Ashley and Kevin Smith at their wedding in 2003 and from Springfield, Missouri...
Our son Toby, his wife Jodie
Our son Tracy, his wife Hiromi and Katie and Maile Bacon having a good laugh!
Bob and his Dad the rest of the group............includes
Sylvie looking down at me from a Macadamia Tree
Mollie is almost 2 years old and is trying to not watch Sparkles eat his delcious puppy food. She's a foodie.
Alani getting beauty rest
Sylvester finds his tail in a tree - surprising!
Alani is our Brittany, sometimes called the smallest kind of Pointer breed.. We love her earnest self! She doesn't know if she is a cat or a dog. We recently found out she is totally deaf at the age of 6. We suspect that she was hard of hearing from birth and that would explain her uppity attitude when we thought she was pretending not to hear us scold her. We feel a bit guilty for our wrong thought.
we got Sparkles
He will grow up to be our watch dog. Alani our Brittany is totally deaf, Mollie the Border Collie is a stealthy machine but Sparkles has a wonderful set of ears and he is really responsive.
Pennsylvania after a gecko in the Fraseri. Pennsylvania is a "fair flower", very beautiful and knows it. She is only about 7 pounds or half the weight of her brother Sylvie. She is sometimes found, near the top of our farm, watching a bunch of Kahlige pheasants which are big as chickens. What must she think? She caught a Norway rat the other night as big as she is. She is normally found sleeping here by the computer as she is doing right now.
Alani drinking out of a bromeliad to the right of the one above. about the the Smiths of Smithfarms........ Bob and I were raised in Hawaii by our Hawaiian-born families and we will always be here. My first relatives arrived before 1840 on the island of Maui. Both sides of my family were in the sugar business which is now no longer an industry. Although I went to school on the mainland, I always knew I was a keiki o ka aina (child of Hawaii) and would be back as soon as possible. Bob spent more than 20 years growing sugar cane and as the sugar industry began its slide into oblivion because of cheap production costs elsewhere in the world... we bought this old coffee farm and have been here in Honaunau for more than 15 years. We are in our element. neoregelia X Bob Smith Bob raises bromeliads and has made numerous crosses. This is one of them, and he gave away or sold many of these as offspring. A plant collector friend said he went to a sale recently and saw this neoregelia and it was called "Bob Smith". So that is its name. We welcome any questions about coffee or Hawaii.
Bob
holding a Hawaiian Bat that I found while running one morning.
Thank you, Dr.Okimoto!
Email: kona@smithfarms.com
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Sylvester
wondering how to get the birdie. He is very good at hunting. He got
two birds one sad afternoon. He looks so cute after an episode "in
the yard". Grooming: He lies down and cleans himself. He proceeds
to clean each one of his 10 front finger nails by dragging the underneath
of each nail over his canine (no pun) teeth. He does it so carefully,
you just know there is no dirt left in there. You can hear
a "snap!" when the nail is done and springs back to its retracted
normal position. He'd never have a loose finger nail for sure. Sylvester-the-cat
is adorable and plump at 18 plus pounds. Still capable of wrapping us
around his sweet v. pink nose when he makes that high pitched "MEEOOOO". 
recognized expert, Ben Okimoto, DVM, Zoo Veterinarian at the Honolulu
Zoo on Oahu,
"Historically
the Hoary bat was the only land mammal here when the Hawaiians came. The
Monk Seal is the only marine mammal. There is fossil evidence of another
species of prehistoric bat. No one knows why it went extinct and the Hoary
bat didn't. However the Hoary bat is a large (for an insectivorous bat)
and strong bat. It is perhaps the most widely spread insectivorous bat
on the mainland and it is also found on other oceanic islands, so undoubtedly
it is a very hardy bat and a strong flyer. The Hawaiian Hoary bat
is a subspecies of the Hoary bat of the US southwest, but one recent UH
grad student thought that there were enough anatomical differences to
classify the Hawaiian bat as a separate species. That will probably not
happen without much more substantiating research."
Aloha