Alvie and Po used to live next door to us, but now are several blocks away. We sometimes go weeks without seeing them, but managed to connect a couple of times in the last week or so. Alvie is a Shih Tzu with papers. Po is, well, Po. Both are extremely cute. And they are [...]
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Time for the dogs! And what a pack of dogs we had today on our early walk down to the beach and back. Buddy and Scarlet, who welcome you to today’s Kaaawa canine photos, live just a block or so from our house, and we see them every morning as we’re on the way home. [...]
Wondering what a tsunami could do to our coast? After the recent tsunami alert, I went looking for some history. It didn’t take long to find a couple of photos. The top photo shows a tsunami washing ashore on Laie Point in 1957 following an earthquake in the Aleutian Islands. [credit: NOAA/NGDC/Henry Helbush] The second [...]
It has been a long week. Last week, Silverman suddenly lost his appetite. For a cat who is typically more than enthusiastic about meals, this was obviously not good. On Saturday, it was off to the vet to get him checked out. And it was a good thing that I didn’t wait. Blood and urine [...]
A task force appointed by the Department of Education has recommended that a proposal to close Kaaawa Elementary School be rejected by the Board of Education. A public hearing to consider the task force report will be held next Wednesday evening, June 2. The DOE’s official notice of the meeting was publicly posted on May [...]
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This is why we can still feel like Kaaawa is in the “country”. Sunday morning, about 7:15 a.m. I’m standing in the middle of Kamehameha Highway looking in the direction of Punaluu and beyond. Of course, there’s a bit of irony in the fact that we drive nearly an hour from downtown Honolulu in order [...]
I thought we heard a weather forecast last night predicting sunny weather for today. But there wasn’t much sun to be found in Kaaawa this morning. A few minutes after I took this picture, that rain reached us and it was umbrellas most of the way home. You can click on the photo for a [...]
We were out early Friday morning for the sunrise in Kaaawa. We weren’t disappointed. This was the view at Swanzy Beach Park at 5:57 a.m. The sun made its appearance a couple of minutes earlier.
