JUNGLE DAVE VS. 
THE AEGEAN STABLES! 

It was the fifth labor of Hercules; but he apparently missed this section of the Aegean Stables, shown in the panoramic pic if you click it.

Personally, I think I just completed the fourth labor, which Hercules skipped completely, having constructed a large rollaway nesting box so the little cannibals disguised as cluckers stop eating their own.

It was made from total scrap lumber between copious downpours and blazingly intense sun, and there is absolutely no guarantee these chickens will even use it; but others are reporting success with the design so hope springs eternal!

Sort of the same way damnation does…

But the ever-intrepid (and lately a tad creaky in the joints) Jungle Dave is soon to be out-herculing Hercules.

Our friend Dan owns about twenty-five lovely acres that front Highway 11, the one that goes up to the volcano and also provides a pretty fascinating glimpse at the little Hawaiian cowtowns that bloom along it’s route.

Or maybe I should say pigtowns, because there are way more of those, for the making of the popular Kailua-style shredded pork, which tastes pretty yum, unless you’re the porker whose back it came off of…

Dan’s property is home to the quaint Dimple Cheeks fruit and vegetable stand; to my pal Zoltan the Hungarian Master Mechanic’s workshop; to a number of camping sites which have become permanent homes to people living in big Army Surplus tents; and to the remains of a once-mighty junk store (re-use center, for the young pups among you), a universe of second-hand items that range from ‘nearly-new’ to ‘throw-it-away-already, dummie’, which Dan ‘inherited’.

As you can see from the pano pic, it is indeed a contemporary Aegean Stables, but I, Jungle Dave, will soon have it organized to a mosquito’s ass, which are way more prevalent here than gnats.

The nature of this monumental task is very like figuring out how to organize theatre props and set pieces.

I have some experience with that.

We take a lot of free hot showers at Dan’s, use the laundry there at no charge, and he has been in the habit of giving us useful stuff that has just been sitting there dreaming of former, better lives; so in return, (after seeing him sigh once too often at the very thought of packing it neatly away since the junk store closed) I graciously volunteered.

Because I’m gracious! And not overly bright.

So I will have a second home at that property as well, in a little alcove of banana trees behind the mighty pile that you see before you; and will build him some shelves for the shipping container that will hold the stuff, and then stuff the stuff where it should get stuffed, and that kind of stuff.

Another great thing about Dan’s is that I will finally have a dried-in building under which to construct two or three yurts, and all the tools needed to do it!

I will also be interviewing my friend the Amazing Zoltan, who escaped communist Hungary about the time of the revolution and who has story after story illuminating those times. He is truly a unique man, and you’ll love reading about him.

So, LOTS to do for Jungle Dave, both here on the Organic Chicken Ranch and at the Aegean Stables of Hawaii, although it’s sometimes difficult to tell them apart.

But I must say, it’s kind of a relief to lose weight through working this hard, instead of through chemo and radiation treatment for cancer…

…and I, for one, am looking forward to the challenge!

Onward!

Not you, chickens!

Me and my friends.