Here is the route from today. This is my first time out on the bike this year. I’ve been walking more than biking, but I wanted to see the Sandpiper Boardwalk that I recently
discovered. It was a nice ride, and beautiful day.
Path to Freedom - Food For Thought.
For a little over a week I’ve been waiting on a paper from Okinawa. It finally arrived today, and now I have to send off a horking big check. But, it’s for a good thing. More details when everything is final, but if you know me you can probably guess what it’s for.
I played hooky from work today, which isn’t something that I do very often. It was nice to dance thought a few puddles of fun today. Now, that I have returned home I am back to work. We were social yesterday and had a lovely dinner. I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with some old bins that I have, and I decided to make worm bins out of them. I will do a photo and instructional post about that this weekend.
I haven’t been doing much except working. This week I did get to make a trip up to Tacoma. I never really liked living in Tacoma, but seeing it again made me miss it. There are some parts of that town that are just wonderful.
I have signed up for a plot in the new P-patch. I look forward to planting some vegetables. Last year we planted corn, soybeans, and tomatoes. The corn only produced one cob, but it was the sweetest corn I’ve ever had. They soybeans were good, but the poor tomatoes didn’t have a chance against the slugs. I wasn’t living here full time, and was unable to monitor the slugs full time… I hate those things.
I decided to change the streaming radio station, Kahuku Groove, over to The Hawaii Network, and have created a new website for it. You can download some of my photos for computer wall paper there, as well as hear some island music. I’m working on making more stories there. So, if you don’t see a post here, you will probably see one there.
I have something else exciting in the works, but I don’t want to say what it is until it’s final.
Work has been busy. I hope to be able to write down some of the things that have happened recently, but that’s just going to have to wait until tomorrow, or the next day. This week has flown by, but in a good way.
I’m not sure what I’ve been doing. The sickness has had me in a haze. Barely functional work, and not much else. Watching movies… Have you seen John From Cincinnati? It’s about surfers… [and has Keala Kennelly in it]
What have you been doing? You’ve all been very quiet.
So, I was away in the islands for a few days. We spent the whole time on O’ahu instead of hopping over to the Big Island. We’ve been to Honolulu recently, but usually only spend a day in town before flying over to the Hilo. It’s been almost two years since we drove over to North Shore and the Windward side. The weather was wonderful, and the trip was pretty relaxing. I was able to visit the wholesalers to get needed items on the first day, and we spent the rest of the time exploring other areas. We only had one hangup, a 4 hour delay upon departure, because someone stuck something in the lavatory that wasn’t supposed to be in there. People do silly things, but at least we got a lunch out of the whole fiasco, and it really wasn’t the airlines fault.
We got back on late Tuesday night, but like any other time I go out of town every website I get orders on went crazy. So, I’ve been working like crazy until today to get everything caught up. To top it all off I’ve come down with a cold.
I’ve been around doing this and that. Working, watching the world go by, writing stories in my head but never finding the time to get them out of there. Now, time for juno.
This little adventures has brought some happiness and sadness. I found old love letters from a 13 year relationship. I didn’t really bother reading all of them, but the ones I did read had me wondering where did all that love go. I can’t wallow in those feelings… it doesn’t do me any good. I also found a tape from when I was 10 years old. It has me and my mom having some silly conversation. I was a strange child. I used to set the tape player to record, and then hide it near where my parents were sitting.
A great way to spend a Friday evening.
Life has been busy… We went out to Ruby Beach and Lake Quinault Last weekend. This weekend there was a quick trip to Tukwila for sushi and to get some things for John’s business. Now, I’m trying to get everything ready. We leave for the annual April trip to the islands in a few weeks. This trip will be more business, but with lots of fun on O’ahu.
I’ve finally decided that I should probably start telling and sharing the beauty of my town with the internets. Others find beauty here, and why shouldn’t I? Why do all my other websites/blogs relate to Hawai’i, a place I would rather live than the place that I actually do live?
Sometimes I’m negative on this place, and there is really no need to be. I get a bit miffed at the situation here, but the same situation happens everywhere with regard to politics, and actually get anything done. I realize that I can’t take out my disappointment with what others do effect what I can possibly do in the community. I’ve long been interested in sharing the stories that I learn around here, but I probably have to step away from the political and interpersonal aspect of the storytelling and maybe just focus on my experience of events. So, I’ve been sitting on one domain name that will work well for this project. I’m not sure when I’ll get it set up, but it will be soon.
