Aloha: I am back in "God's country" today. It was a good thing I went Hilo yesterday as I was able to watch my mo'opuna for a couple of hours in the pm.
My header gave you the volcano update. The weather here is the same as it has been for the last week or so. It is now 50 degrees, cloudy (but bright) and no water falling from the sky.
This Saturday is the Red Cross's CPR Saturday at the UH Hilo. My wife is, I think, in charge. She has assigned me to watch the food (lucky me) that the volunteers get to eat for lunch. Different restaurants donate food for the event so we usually have a nice assortment of "goodies" to eat.
The Red Cross here in Hawaii is asking for volunteers to go ND to help at the Red River floods. So far one person from this end of the island has gone. Whoever it is is going to freeze his/her butt off.
God bless and be good. God bless America.
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Monday, March 30, 2009
Back in the Saddle Again
Aloha: Well, here I am in Hilo today. I have to go to the drug store to get my "pills", so I will keep Topher and CJ company. I came down with my wife and will not be able to go home till she finishes work this evening. It was misty all the way down this morning, but now it is sunny and getting rather warm. I know, I know; It is cold in Volcano, hot in Hilo, I am just never satisfied!!! That is one of the advantages of being an "old man". (It is a lot of fun watching Topher play with CJ!)
Going back to feeling hot or cold reminds me of an incident that happened to me while in the Navy. In the late 60s I was stationed in Vietnam and worked in the warehouse for the mess hall. We were called into the Chief's office for a meeting and those of us who worked in the warehouse started to complain that the office was so cold. The Chief checked the thermometer and it was 85 degrees in the office. We were comfortable in the warehouse, where it was 125 degrees, because we had gotten used to it. All pau war stories (for now).
As I said, it was (is) wet in volcano this morning. We thought it was going to be real cold this morning because it started to clear up last night. A cloudy day followed by a clear night makes for a very cold morning. However, it started to drizzle about 10p so it only got down to 49 this morning. The volcano report for Kilauea is, again, SOS. The report for Mauna Loa is stable. This year is the 25th anniversary of the last eruption on Mauna Loa. There are "talk story" sessions planned for around the island to answer questions anyone may have about our "Great Mountain".
Talking about the eruption of Mauna Loa reminds me of the "akua lele" we saw. We were going home late one night when both Kilauea and Mauna Loa were erupting. It must have been about 11p when we pasted Hirano store and at the top of the hill ahead there was a flash of light and a fireball. My science mind says it was a meteor, but my "local" mind says it was Pele going from one site to the other.
Wow, this is getting long. God bless and be good to each other. May God bless America.
Going back to feeling hot or cold reminds me of an incident that happened to me while in the Navy. In the late 60s I was stationed in Vietnam and worked in the warehouse for the mess hall. We were called into the Chief's office for a meeting and those of us who worked in the warehouse started to complain that the office was so cold. The Chief checked the thermometer and it was 85 degrees in the office. We were comfortable in the warehouse, where it was 125 degrees, because we had gotten used to it. All pau war stories (for now).
As I said, it was (is) wet in volcano this morning. We thought it was going to be real cold this morning because it started to clear up last night. A cloudy day followed by a clear night makes for a very cold morning. However, it started to drizzle about 10p so it only got down to 49 this morning. The volcano report for Kilauea is, again, SOS. The report for Mauna Loa is stable. This year is the 25th anniversary of the last eruption on Mauna Loa. There are "talk story" sessions planned for around the island to answer questions anyone may have about our "Great Mountain".
Talking about the eruption of Mauna Loa reminds me of the "akua lele" we saw. We were going home late one night when both Kilauea and Mauna Loa were erupting. It must have been about 11p when we pasted Hirano store and at the top of the hill ahead there was a flash of light and a fireball. My science mind says it was a meteor, but my "local" mind says it was Pele going from one site to the other.
Wow, this is getting long. God bless and be good to each other. May God bless America.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Charity
Greetings and salutations to all my faithful readers. I just read something interesting. I copied it and it follows in red. "In 2006, the most recent year for which data is available, four million taxpayers had adjusted gross incomes of $200,000 or more. They comprised 3% of the tax returns, made 31% of the income, but donated 44% of all charitable contributions. Together, they provided charity with $81 billion in that year." I wonder what will happen when the IRS cuts the charitable deduction to 80% of the amount donated?
I noticed that ever since I stopped referring to volcano as God's country the weather has not been "nice". It really is always nice but not "walkable". Right now it is 10a and a heavy mist is falling, and the sunny side of the house is 51 degrees. Auwe, I forgot to check the HVO's website so I will guess that everything is SOS.
The kakuma is soaking in the refrigerator and will do so until the water comes out clean and clear. It will take about 5 days with a water change every day. Then we will have, as Alton Brown would say, "good eats".
Right now my wife is watching the SciFi channel. I did not know that they made so many "weird" movies. She really like those kinds of movies.
As Woody Woodpecker would say, "That's all folks". God bless and take care of each other.
I noticed that ever since I stopped referring to volcano as God's country the weather has not been "nice". It really is always nice but not "walkable". Right now it is 10a and a heavy mist is falling, and the sunny side of the house is 51 degrees. Auwe, I forgot to check the HVO's website so I will guess that everything is SOS.
The kakuma is soaking in the refrigerator and will do so until the water comes out clean and clear. It will take about 5 days with a water change every day. Then we will have, as Alton Brown would say, "good eats".
Right now my wife is watching the SciFi channel. I did not know that they made so many "weird" movies. She really like those kinds of movies.
As Woody Woodpecker would say, "That's all folks". God bless and take care of each other.
Saturday, March 28, 2009
Is it cold?
Aloha no! Guess what? Yes, I forgot to change the title of yesterday's blog. Today I have put a title on before I started to write. I got a note from my sister in North Kohala asking if this has been the coldest winter since I moved to Volcano about 30 years ago. She has said that this has been the coldest winter in North Kohala since she moved there, maybe, 40 years ago?. The answer for Volcano is this has not been the coldest winter. The first year I lived here it got down to 28 for 3 mornings in a row. Ice all over the place. The ground "crunched" when you walked around. Since then we have had several years with the temperature in the mid 30s. I think the coldest it has gotten this winter is the mid 40s. This morning it was 48 at about 7a. Now at 10a it is 51 on the "sunny" side of the house. However, I think this winter we have had more days of 50 degree weather than ever before. Usually the temp get above 60 during the day, but not this year. Hey, the sun just poked through the clouds.
I just remembered.... When it got down to 28 I asked my neighbor, a very old time resident of Volcano, about the freezing of the water pipes. He told me that it had gotten a lot colder before and he did not have any trouble as it has to be below freezing for longer that a few hours for the pipes to freeze.
If the sun wins the battle with the clouds we will go pick tree fern shoots, kakuma, as my wife's side of the family likes it cooked with pork. I remember, as a kid, the neighbor across the street trying to get my mom interested in kakuma. We had fern trees in the back yard, but my mom was not very adventurous when it came to food. The first time I ate kakuma was after I got married.
The volcano update is SOS. The lava in the new crater in the floor of Halema'uma'u goes up and down, like a piston. Tremor increases, the lava goes up; tremor decreases, the lava goes down. Today's report does not mention tephra.
Looks like the sun is losing. God bless all of you and God bless America!
I just remembered.... When it got down to 28 I asked my neighbor, a very old time resident of Volcano, about the freezing of the water pipes. He told me that it had gotten a lot colder before and he did not have any trouble as it has to be below freezing for longer that a few hours for the pipes to freeze.
If the sun wins the battle with the clouds we will go pick tree fern shoots, kakuma, as my wife's side of the family likes it cooked with pork. I remember, as a kid, the neighbor across the street trying to get my mom interested in kakuma. We had fern trees in the back yard, but my mom was not very adventurous when it came to food. The first time I ate kakuma was after I got married.
The volcano update is SOS. The lava in the new crater in the floor of Halema'uma'u goes up and down, like a piston. Tremor increases, the lava goes up; tremor decreases, the lava goes down. Today's report does not mention tephra.
Looks like the sun is losing. God bless all of you and God bless America!
Friday, March 27, 2009
Untitled
Good Morning!!!!! I have titled this post "Untitled" until I decide on a title. I did that because I usually forget to put in a title when I finish writing. I put in the title when I am pau because I do not know what I am going to write about when I start.
Today is the same as yesterday, not a good day for a walk. Here it is 10a and it is 50 on the "warm" side of the house.
Not related to anything, but if I lived where the G20 is going to meet I would get out of town quick! All hell is going to break loose. Most of my readers don't want me to go down this road, so I am thinking of starting another blog. Comments?
Kilauea is just doing its thing. A lava lake can be seen, if you are a scientist, in the new crater on the floor on Halema'uma'u. Quakes, tephra, and tremor are the same as yesterday. I remember my dad telling how, when he was a child, there was a lake in Halema'uma'u all the time. Sometimes very low and at other times so deep that it would overflow onto the floor of Kilauea. This may be the start of the same kind of eruption. It could go on for the next 100 years.
My daughter, on her blog today, says that she feel kind on weird as yesterday was a holiday and so today feels like Monday. I know how she feels. Being retired I have enough trouble keeping tract of days of the week and having my wife off yesterday and then going to work today got me all mixed up.
The sun came out for about 10 minutes and now is gone. Guess I will be too. God bless all of you and God bless America.
Today is the same as yesterday, not a good day for a walk. Here it is 10a and it is 50 on the "warm" side of the house.
Not related to anything, but if I lived where the G20 is going to meet I would get out of town quick! All hell is going to break loose. Most of my readers don't want me to go down this road, so I am thinking of starting another blog. Comments?
Kilauea is just doing its thing. A lava lake can be seen, if you are a scientist, in the new crater on the floor on Halema'uma'u. Quakes, tephra, and tremor are the same as yesterday. I remember my dad telling how, when he was a child, there was a lake in Halema'uma'u all the time. Sometimes very low and at other times so deep that it would overflow onto the floor of Kilauea. This may be the start of the same kind of eruption. It could go on for the next 100 years.
My daughter, on her blog today, says that she feel kind on weird as yesterday was a holiday and so today feels like Monday. I know how she feels. Being retired I have enough trouble keeping tract of days of the week and having my wife off yesterday and then going to work today got me all mixed up.
The sun came out for about 10 minutes and now is gone. Guess I will be too. God bless all of you and God bless America.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
