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April 10, 2008 (actually posted in April & August of 2009) ---working
on it---
My, how time flys!!! Has it been that long since our last post? We've been having fun...true to the saying.
Christmas '07 Marilou got her very first train set! It's the Hogwart's Express by Lionel.
2007's' Albatross chicks are growing up...
...and up.
Marilou with the bird crew. In the brown uniform is, Brenda, the Wildlife Biologist who shared her knowledge with the blue shirted volunteers.
I believe this was my 55th birthday dinner. Brenda and Mike joined us at my favorite restaurant Gaylord's of Kiilohana.
We discovered the local polo club in 2008 and sponsored a team.
After the polo games we would sometimes play Bocci Ball with friends.
That halloween we dressed up as sunburnt tourists.
Becky's latest tattoo, done in January of 2008. Living here in Hawaii and reflecting on my childhood in south Georgia I wanted an image to represent the merger of those two diverse memories. The peacock is from my childhood memory. We had some in the yard. It is sitting on a long leaf pine tree's branch, another specific memory of south Georgia. The sunset is from a photo taken on our lanai here and the black shark teeth border is a traditional protection image used by the Hawaiians. I picked the tattooist from the line-up of artists in the Tattoolicious studio in Waikiki. She is good with color. (edit: Her name is Amy and as of 7-09, she is on the TV show Tattoo Highway as a working artist.)
First part of 2008 I upgraded my computer to a 8 core Intel Mac and got a beautiful 30" screen.
In Febuary we went to the coatal town of Blaine, Washington for a Seabird convention. That's Brenda and Marilou in front of a poster presentation they did about reparing wing feathers on a Red Tailed Topicbird. Blaine is just a mile or so from the Canadian border.
I entered the first juryied art show for me in several decades. Two paintings of mine were accepted, the waterfall and beach scenes. The beach scene received an Honorable Mention award. I was very pleased. Both of these scenes are from locations here on Kauai.
As I write this in July of 2009 I can say if we knew what we know now back in 2007 when we did this earth moving and preparing for the (near) future slab to be poured...we probably would have not done it at that time. In 2007, we didn't know the economic down-turn was beginning and so, thought our Georgia property was going to sell any month. We choose to take advantage of the availablitity of the crew to do the work then. Ever since then, we've had to keep grass from growing on the packed fill area (the roots would undermine the solidness) and thus, have had to look at a lovey square dirt patch for several years.
Here's Marilou pup sitting. The very endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal moms have their pups on the beach and stay on that beach with the pup for about 6 weeks until the the pup is weaned. Both the seals and the people need protection from one another. The seal will abandon the pup if agrevated too much by people or dogs, and if the people approach too closely they can get a nasty bite from the seal. So, volunteers guard the seals while they raise the pups. The black one is the pup.
(more to write....)
