Here’s a little montage…


Trying to get a little zen flavoring into the mix.

I guess it’s been a while since I posted, but I’ve been busy! Here’s some pics:



These were both taken at the Honokohau Marina within a few minutes. It was a very nice sunset…

Here’s a little rainbow that floated around one afternoon when we were watching the lava gas billow out of the Halemaumau crater on Kilauea. Then we sprinted through an old lava tube, trying to avoid Japanese tourists…

Fourteen times around
before you figured out
the scenery is what changes you
from the inside and the out.
You can’t twist the throttle
any harder or more full of doubt
the landing is what hurts the most
it’s the flying you can’t do without.

Here’s an interesting thing on the side of the road.

So, I’ve been painting and planting and other various handy things. Since there is no IKEA here, I have to make all of our furniture myself! One big plus to living here is all the local produce to eat. We have avocados, oranges, bananas, mangos, papayas, lettuce, carrots, tomatos, and COFFEE (!) all within 20 minutes of our house, yay!

Flying to the big island with my lucky dragon

Shirley Jo Fussbudget enrolled in the CNA program at GHCC last spring. Now that she’s in the final quarter, she used the lab to verify the results of the previous night’s purchase from The Dollar Tree. “Let’s see, yellow tube of urine, check. And the test sample, oh shit, I just knew I was pregnant!”