Here’s a short video panning across Hilo Bay early this morning. The sun was just coming up, and you can see sunlight hitting the upper slopes of Mauna Kea, while Hilo awaits the day down below. That’s the Hilo Hawaiian Hotel visible in the background at the beginning and end of the video.
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Ms. Bella quickly became one of our favorites after being adopted into her new family around Christmas last year. She is growing up into quite a nice dog, although a little naughty. Her latest “trick” is to jump down to the beach and run out to meet us in the morning, then run back and [...]
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It was another one of those mornings. Annie didn’t show up for dinner last night, or for breakfast this a.m. Paranoid cat person goes searching. iPhone video tells the rest. Hint: She got back home before I did.
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We’ll start the day, as most other days, with a walk down to the beach to watch the sunrise. Along the way, we meet and greet a lot of dogs along the way. Since our household is cat-centric, this is our chance to mix with the other half of the world. A set the camera [...]
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I stopped briefly this morning to capture this calm moment on Kamehameha Highway in Kaaawa. It was about 6:30 a.m. or so. Enjoy.
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A couple of weeks ago, a friend gave us a catnip plant to bring home. Naively, I thought we could just hide it in yard and then harvest a few leaves from time to time. Not possible. I don’t think it took three minutes for one of the cats to discover it and start chewing [...]
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I have to credit my friend and fellow blogger, Chuck Smith, with pointing to this video. If you’ve ever been trapped in a bureaucratic maze or confronted a nitpicking gatekeeper, this is one you are going to love. Meda sent the link to a few people, and its been making the rounds this week in [...]
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The photo and story of the 1939 luau brought lots of comments, so I thought I would share this link to several old movies of pre-WWII Hawaii by Arthur and Kate Tode. In a quick search, I haven’t found out anything about the couple, although clearly they had enough money to travel the world. The [...]
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