It turns out that we’ve had both bad news and good news on this Feline Friday regarding Duke and Silverman, our two diabetic boys. The bad news is that Silverman had a hypoglycemic episode while boarding at VCA during our trip last week. His glucose level dropped dangerously low. His insulin dose was adjusted downward [...]
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It’s not always bright and sunny in Kaaawa in the early morning, and we aren’t always walking on the beach. Here are a couple of recent photos with a slightly different sense of place.
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We had a little cat adventure yesterday. Meda was packing for a trip back to D.C., where she has back to back meetings at the beginning of next week, and we were trying to get the house and cats in order before she left. The night before, when we locked the cats down for the [...]
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Interesting things keep turning up in my mother’s small stash of old papers inherited from Professor Carey D. Miller. This time is a short history of the beginnings of the home economics department of the College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts of Hawaii, soon to become the College of Hawaii, and later the University of [...]
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Romeo welcomes you to another Feline Friday! He was on the prowl this morning. I think he was irritated that we didn’t release him from the nightly lockdown until after we were back from our morning walk. So he did his rounds of the yard, poached from Harriet’s dish, and backed poor Toby into a [...]
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Not all dogs love the water. Ms. Maka is one that obviously does. She also loves to chase that gnarly stick which, I’m told, she’ll continue to fetch until exhausted. At home, in the small living room, she’ll race a few steps across the room to retrieve a rolled up towel, not as satisfying as [...]
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We started out early this morning, just a few minutes after 6 a.m., and the was the view by the time we got down to the beach. The clouds and the rain, which sometimes blow towards Kaneohe instead of back towards Kaaawa, were moving closer. Then we sort of tuned them out until the rain [...]
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I managed to scan the photos from Carey Miller’s scrapbook that recorded impressions of her first year in Hawaii. These scans provide slightly larger images. Miller arrived in Honolulu in September 1922, and her notes and photos go through the spring of 1923. To view the 62 photographs, just click on this first photo to [...]
Tags: Carey D. Miller·Hawaii 1922·Moanalua Gardens·Volcano House
