Road Signs

This is the road we live on.
For me...the island flavor of this road is it's "road signs"
Here we go down the road........

I've always wondered who put up some of the signs.........
(I feel fairly confident in saying it wasn't the city)

Just about every palm tree or phone pole has a sign...........

Keep reading.........the story continues in the following post

Road Signs continued...

This sign is in front of our neighbor's house. His family has lived on this road for generations. I'm sure there is more traffic now than generations before, and the traffic will continue to increase for generations to come. His kids will probably live on this road when they grow up.

Then you turn into our driveway...this is our sign. I recently did a facelift on our sign with some gorilla glue and a fresh coat of paint. (all facelifts should be so easy when you get run down & old!) However...the sign of all signs
was just posted last week on the palm tree along the road in front of the first house on the road. This has now become my favorite sign of all!

A few days later...this last sign came out. I LOVED IT!! It cheered up my whole day! Yeh!!

I learned so much.....

Thank you for not just pouting and blaming and being resentful and angry...

Thank you for asking....
Thank you for receiving...

Thank you for showing your gratitude and saying "Thank you".

It was so simple...it is so simple.
Thank you for sharing your gratitude

How much would you pay???

Let me start off by saying, I wasn't "paying" attention when we purchased this candy bar yesterday.

The store clerk was raving about how incredible it was, and we definitely got caught up in the moment!

They actually print their mission statement on the inside of the wrapper...I've never seen that before. I read it. I learned a lot about chocolate and the production that goes on behind the scenes.
So, I was really getting into all the science and nutrition of chocolate and that the bar provides an ideal protein and perfect source of nutrition to fuel our bodies and minds...until I read the last sentence..."The less sugar the better"...

I ask myself....why eat a chocolate bar and pay $8.99+tax and not have the enjoyment of sugar! You really have to like the cacao bean to justify paying that much for a candy bar.

Just my opinion...it didn't do much for me!

Our Jungle Cabana

Lots of you have been asking me...about our cabana...so here it is!I added pictures of Hanalei...(the little town where our mail is delivered).I also added pictures of the beachesnearby that we love so much.I threw in a picture of Lar flying over the taro fields of Hanalei in the trike.The local flora are all flowers on thecabana property.ENJOY!! I don't know why this is a black screen...just click the play button to change the screen & start the video :))

Malasadas

This last Wednesday night, our YW activity was to learn how to make malasadas.
I was so excited! I love malasadas!

My love for malasadas began during my flying days...
specifically, the ten years that I only flew to the islands of Hawaii...
(eight round trips a month...flying to any one of the islands...Oahu, Maui, Kauai, Hawaii)
(I got paid to do this! It was definitely some of the best flying of my career.)

Anyway...back to malasadas...
The flight attendants who were from the islands turned us all onto malasadas.
If we had a morning departure from Honolulu, they always had our van driver stop by Leonard's Bakery on the way to the airport so we could pick up freshly baked malasadas.
It was heavenly!
So, when I found out I was going to learn how to make them, I was so excited!
It brought up so many fond memories of those days. They turned out sooo good.
So, I was curious about the history behind malasadas...

In 1878, Portuguese laborers from the Madeira and Azores came to Hawaii to work in the plantations.
These immigrants brought their traditional foods with them, including a fried dough pastry called the "malasada".
Mardi Gras ("Fat Tuesday"), the day before lent, is also known as Malasada Day in Hawaii.
Being predominantly Catholic, Portuguese immigrants would need to use up all of their butter and sugar prior to lent. They did so by making large batches of malasadas, which they would subsequently share with friends from all the other ethnic groups in the plantation camps. This led to the popularity of the malasada in Hawaii.

So, hooray for lent!

WaLa!!!!!!!

Introducing.....

Makenzie Maxine Gibson

arrival day: February 7, 2010 (Superbowl Sunday!)

arrival time: 12:29pm

weighing in at 7lbs 14oz

18 inches long

(The time on the clock is 3:47pm on Feb.7)

(I'm a very lucky grandma!)

Mom and Dad are very proud parents!
Many thanks go to Sean's parents for taking care of
their son, Brennan...making it possible for me to be with

my daughter and new granddaughter for this beautiful event!
I think this is as good as it gets!

Hau 'oli Makahiki Hou!

Happy New Year!

from the North Shore of Kauai @ Ke'e Beach

We were at the beach early this morning foran aqua cranial sacral massage treatmentfor Lar. The ocean was powerful! and hopefully shared some of it's healing powers with Larthis morning. The morning was clean, clear,crisp, and stunningly gorgeous! We wish everyone a properous and healthy 2010!

Gifts from Heaven this morning...

On my beach walk this morning, I was blessed with a gift from heaven...
a rainbow over the full moon just setting.
(look closely to see the full moon just under the rainbow)

He made it!

(read the rest of the story on the post just before this one.)

The Dilema...

How does somebody get home when it has rained
so hard all day and the overflow streams now
overflow the road!?!

Fortunately, for us, we turn off the road just before the overflow stream.

I was still curious how deep the water was!

But, he just wanted to go home, and unfortunately, lives up the road.

He decided he could make it. So, here he goes!

How much does it rain on Kauai???

The average rainfall for Kauai annually is 460 inches...

that computes to 1.26 inches/day.

(Mt. Wai'aleale, which is on Kauai, is the wettest spot on the earth.)

Now, you might think that it rains every day here...which it does not.

We have many, many sunny gorgeous days!

But it did rain today...HARD...all day.

The waterfalls off Mt. Wai'aleale,

(which aren't visible on a sunny day),

were absolutely amazing!

This is my "scientific" way of measuring the rain.

I took the picture above yesterday.

This is my vase with today's rainfall!

Sunrise for us...

begins at Lumaha'i Beach...

and Sunset....

ends at Ke'e Beach

no words needed here... :)