“Hawaii has the climate California thinks it has.” — Earl Derr Biggers, “The Black Camel”
Sunset at the Sandbar
Ballistic Missile Mai Tai
Well! Everyone seemed jittery today. Even after it became widely known that the ballistic missile alert was a false alarm it was kind of hard to focus. It’s not every day I think, “A missile. Not a drill. How long, seven minutes? Ten? OK. Protected from nuclear blast from mountains. Tsunami if it lands in…
Keep Calm and Whatever
I guess it was a mistake? I mean, Hawaii has some historical reference for 8am attacks but maybe I overreacted by running around closing all the windows. No, that’s what we’re supposed to do I think. The pancakes burned on the stove while Chris and I stuck our heads out the window and wondered why…
January Refresh
Schedule change in process! I had lots of fun plans for the kids’ last week of winter break. Surprise! I got sick and couldn’t get out of bed. I don’t even know what the kids did. Every once in a while I’d throw food to the kids and collapse back in bed. They were so great,…
Happy New Year!
The last day of the year! We finished off the year with some snowman building. Eloise wanted to build a Rainbow Sand Snowman. So…I brought a rainbow scarf and beanie to the beach. That turned out to be unnecessary because there was already a rainbow at the beach, arcing over Kaneohe Bay just beyond Kailua…
Mele Kalikimaka
Mele Kalikimaka is the thing to say on a bright, Hawaiian Christmas day! That’s the island greeting that we send to you from the land where palm trees sway. Here we know that Christmas will be green and bright, the sun to shine by day and all the stars at night. Mele Kalikimaka is Hawaii’s…
Black Sand Beach (Punalu’U)
I am a sand connoisseur. I like to roll sand between my thumb and fingers, squeeze it in my fist, examine the grain in the palm of my hand. I examine the size of the grains, then compare it to the slope of the sand into the water (the finer the sand, the more gradual the slope)….