More surgery, recovered, and back once again!

Gosh, long absence again. Last post was about a long absence for surgeries, and then on to the delightful experience of having a sweet pair of finches build their nest right above where I sit at my computer, on the lanai. Well, they did indeed have not one egg but two, and both hatched, and both babes did fine. A wonderful time was had by all, watching the babies get ready to fly. So much uncertainty, first peeking over the edge, then practicing wing-beating for several days, and finally th

I'm beginning to get it !

Ah, the button top-right says Create a new Blog, which actually means to me I can create (add, post)a new post on my existing blog !  OK.  Got it ! This is really so funny---I am meandering around, similar to what I did when I first joined WA.  First thing is, I wanted to figure out when OEP got started.  Most entries seem to lack a date.  But I finally got it----sometime around now, April 2012.  Hooray ! So, I'll catch my friends up on Big Islan

back after a lonnnnng absence for healthcare

wow, i am back from about a year and a half away from WA! It was an excursion into the wild world of taking care of my health.. Four separate surgeries, a few other hospital stays, a couple pneumonias taking me back into hospitals, oh it goes on and on. So, all is once again well, i am back in my beloved Pacific Ocean on my beloved Big Island. To swim again is the greatest joy, and I revel in it every day. So, WA is in transition too ! becoming OEP, I gather. Can't find a common landin

Island Creativity with Coconuts

A good friend brought me a dozen or so coconuts the other day, from deep in the sacred valley of Waipio where he lives and farms taro  and other ono (delicious) fruits and vegetables.. These coconuts he brought me are young, so they are filled each with a cup or so of the most delicious, nutritious clear  coconut water.   No chemicals ever came near these babies: they are wonderful.    So every day I open one with my trusty machete.  I like to leave today's coc

Revel as you meander, newbies !

Today I  read Barbara's  inspiring blog post at  bkb2012.  Thanks Barbara! The meandering stage, she calls it.  I say revel in the meandering, newbies!  In my own experience,  it was an essential stage in recovering from the overwhelmed I-am-new-at-WA stage that I plowed thru with such blind faith. After working thru most of this challenging first stage  I became able  to meander, and that's when I realized I was changing.   Here's how it w

I get it ! It's the Larry Page Rank

Haven't bothered to mention it before, but actually for almost a month now since I got home to Hawaii from the mainland, I've been dealing with the Achilles' heel of my health, which is severe post-viral asthma.  A teeny little two-day cold arrives and disappears quite nicely, but my lungs take one look at this puny invader and shriek.  My immune system brings out  quite ineffective elephant guns to deal with this apparent nothing of a cold, and the next thing you know there's bac

Hooray for the Sky Show !

so I walked outside last night, a little after 11 pm local time.  This stray thought  was going thru my head as I stepped onto the grass, something like .....gosh I wonder if I will see any............ and that thought was accompanied by that little vague feeling of doubt...and exactly then I raised my eyes to the straightoverhead sky and a Huge, Long, Spectacular streak of a meteor flew in this beautiful arc right over my eyes.  Not just any ol' meteor , either. This baby had a s

Gotta see those Perseid meteor showers !

Tonight is the night !  August 12-13, 2010.  The moon is pretty new, and anyway it sets around 10 pm, with the showers blasting out of Perseus  starting (I think ) an hour or so later.  That means that by 11 pm tonight, I will be out in the yard on a blanket, lying on the grass so the horizon is kinda in my peripheral vision, and seeing what catches my eye.  Perseus is (I think) in the northeast sky, rising above the horizon somewhat around 11 pm, so that's where I will

Home again with a new computer

Finally home on my beautiful Big Island, after two weeks away to be with family on the mainland.   My laptop bit the dust while I was traveling . I think it can be rescued, but meanwhile I had no internet access for two weeks. So when I got as far as LA, I bought a backup laptop.  I'm not one to buy a second laptop just for the fun of it, but the thought of not working on articles and websites for a couple more weeks while my primary laptop is  repaired, was just too much. It's a

Hawaiian bird orchestra, led by the shrieking francolin.

Usually I write about life that lives in the ocean.  Today, birds.  These beautiful Hawaiian  islands are filled with birds, and  the birds are filled with song.  The resulting orchestra  keeps changing instruments depending on the time of day, how far above sea level you are, and even the season (yes, we have seasons !) I live right by the ocean, in an area always quite warm, always quite dry.   It's a tiny geographical niche, and some birds choose it above an