That slow morning was blown away by another kitten find on the same wild slope where we found Oreo two months ago. This is another black and white kitten, this time mostly black with white paws, and just a dash of white on its nose and chin. This photo was taken just seconds after I [...]
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It’s a slow morning in Kaaawa. Harriet had a fight in the last few days and has a good scratch on her back. I’ve been monitoring and it seems to be healing. On Sunday morning, Ms. Wally jumped in my lap and I was petting her without paying much attention, then saw some blood on [...]
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Hawaii Congressman Neil Abercrombie is one of 71 representatives who signed a letter to President Bush (cc to Nancy Pelosi) pledging not to vote for further war funding without a plan to get U.S. troops out of Iraq before the 2008 election, according to the OpenCongress.org blog. The war funding debate will be taken up [...]
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I had fun with my “big” camera (a Canon Digital Rebel XTi) yesterday after being off for a week with my small travel camera (a little Panasonic LX-1. So today you reap some of the benefits. We were on the way back from the early morning visit to the beach when this treo came buzzing [...]
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If you go by the counter on this page, you’ll see that it’s inching towards 1,000,000 and should hit that mark later today. I take this as my “official” counter, since it’s been in place since 1999. But it only counts visits to these main pages and not the entire site, which rambles, to put [...]
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There’s been a tropical storm creeping up on the islands from the Southeast. It’s been cloudy and threatening for a couple of days, although the weather folks claim this has nothing to do with the approaching storm. I’m not sure just what to think about that. At this point, though, it appears the heavy rains [...]
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It’s Feline Friday again, and Mr. Toby marks the day because he happens to be the one who was around when the camera was out earlier this week. In fact, he’s just been around more the last couple of weeks, and even more in evidence since we returned from Portland. He even slept inside last [...]
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Lt. Governor Aiona’s weekly electronic newsletter is now being distributed to state employees via the state’s internal email system. Previously only the governor’s newsletter was sent out in this fashion, or so I’m told. A copy forwarded to me last week shows that it was sent out to personnel contacts in each state department by [...]
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