I Am #AliveAndThriving Today! || #IAmAliveChallenge || Daily Off-Grid Jungle Journal Entry: Day #485 - It's Official, Dolphin 🐬 Level by December 1st #HPUD! - GaiaYoga Gardens, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - Friday, November 24, 2023

I live barefooted and naked, very close to Earth and Nature, in an 18-acre, off-grid, clothing-optional, food-forest intentional community (GaiaYoga Gardens), way out in the jungles of Lower Puna, far East Big Island, Hawai'i. I love my life, and I'm immensely grateful to live where and how I do, on my own terms! I would not want to live any other way! 😁🙏💚⚡💥🔥✴️✳️❇️👣🌱✨🤙

Warm greetings all! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

Well, folks, as of last night it's official, I will reach dolphin level on the December 1st #HPUD! After many months of patiently watching prices and trading assets, my multiple-step operation of selling my original 2,319.833996 PKOIN that I made from posting on Bastyon on BitForex in two chunks, buying LTC and sending the first batch to Hive Engine, selling the LTC, then buying 3,732.7894 DOGE on BitForex, and 8,685.5364529 SWAP.DOGE on Hive Engine, selling the batch of DOGE on BitForex, buying LTC, sending it to Hive Engine, selling the second round of LTC, selling my chunk of SWAP.DOGE on Hive Engine in multiple batches, then finally converting my 2,707.246 SWAP.HIVE into 2,698.01 HIVE (man those conversion fees hurt!) is finally completed!

2,319.833996 PKOIN originally 

7.9981220252419 LTC received on Hive Engine from PKOIN sold

3,732.7894 DOGE bought on BitForex

8,685.5364529 SWAP.DOGE bought on Hive Engine 

4.03850731 LTC received on Hive Engine from DOGE sold

2,707.246 SWAP.HIVE once everything was sold

Conversion Fee: 9.236 HIVE (0.342%)

2,698.010 HIVE total in the end 

While the final amount of HIVE was a bit lower than I was hoping, and I could have waited longer for DOGE/SWAP.DOGE prices to go up more before selling, I was committed to reaching dolphin 🐬 level by December 1st, so I made it happen, regardless of non-ideal situations. With the 2,698.01 HIVE that I made, added to the 13+ liquid Hive that I already had, and my present 3,049 HP, I will easily surpass the 5,716 HP needed to get to dolphin level. Both my liquid HIVE and my HP will continue growing until #HPUD, so in the end I should be powering up approximately 2,715 HIVE, which is quite lovely indeed!

I felt such a huge sense of relief and accomplishment last night when I sold the last batch of SWAP.DOGE and converted my SWAP.HIVE to HIVE! Dolphin level by December 1st's #HPUD was no longer just a hope or a goal, but a very solid reality! I can't tell you how grateful I am to have been able to keep the focus and follow this goal from beginning to end!

This huge powerup will also be the first time in my 2 years, 2 months, and 2 days on Hive that I am investing outside assets into the Blockchain, and almost $1,000 worth at that! Holy wow! I feel pretty great that I was able to grow my account to the level that it is now completely organically before adding outside investments.

Now that dolphin level will be achieved by Thursday (my time), my eyes and new goal are locked on orca level that starts around 57,158 HP (as of today). Thats another massive leap, and it will take me a little time to get there, but get there I will, and with the glorious nature of compounding interest and exponential growth, it may be sooner than I think!

Yesterday, Friday, I finished up my essential Hive tasks by around 3:30PM, which is when I left the Flow House to go finish taking photos for this post (I had already taken some in the morning), and then put my focus on some land work. After I finished with taking photos, I got my machete and collected a wheelbarrow full of assorted edible tree leaves for the next morning cow milking food. When I finished that, I went to do some up-potting of mango seedlings (of a different species from the usual one) for Ano in his nursery. After completing that, I felt inspired to put three plants in the ground that I had wanted plant for a while, one Gardenia that I had grown from a cutting, and two other rarer plants that don't really have common vernacular names. The Gardenia was planted near the Landing, along the trail to Power Sharing/the laundry/shower area, and the other two rarer ones were planted out on the edge of the jungle, where the second driveway intersects with Noni Farms/Pu'u'ā Road. It felt really good to finally get them planted.

After working and playing with plants, I took a shower, strained out kefir for my kefir-honey-cinnamon-cacao blend, got another round of milk for kefir from Tutu's, hung out and made a Caprese salad with Iolanthe (Ano and Melekai's 11-year-old daughter), made myself food, got food for my kitty friend, then I returned to the Flow House (slightly later due to hanging out with Io) for my evening round of Hive tasks and catch-up. I was able to get everything on Hive done and wrapped up by around 11PM, and I went to sleep soon after. I slept well, waking up around 5AM, and immediately beginning a round of token management (which took much more effort and time due to the Hive Engine issues), and then I completed @benthomaswwd's @heartbeatonhive contest, before finally going back to sleep until around 9AM, which is when I got out of bed to go collect my leftover superfood fire coffee, and food for my kitty friend, from the Landing fridge.

It's now just past 12:15PM, so it's marvelous time to end this post, so that I can get to my afternoon round of essential Hive tasks, before going to take photos for the next iteration of this post, and then putting my focus on land work in the later afternoon. I deeply appreciate you all so very much! Until tomorrow! Onward and upward, joyfully together! 😁 🙏 💚 ✨ 🤙

All photos were taken with my Motorola G Power Android Phone.

Thank you all so much who have helped me get to where I am today, and allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am truly deeply grateful! 😁🙏💚✨🤙

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