Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Love. Show all posts

Monday, February 25, 2008

USS Bowfin museum

The thing I liked best about this--aside from watching my boys command a sub for nearly 40 minutes--was that the exhibit (which was shabby by today's hi tech standards) was actually salvaged and reconstructed by former crew mates specifically for this museum. I just thought that was spectacular. And, as per my 'hi tech' comment above...seriously, what more do boys need than a bunch of levers that move, switches that flick, and two wheels that turn? I mean, really. If it had gone BOOM occasionally they would have never left.

I loved it.

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Sunday, February 24, 2008

Got Yarn?

Fiber? Fiber? Anyone? Anyone?
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A la 1820's, changing of the King's Guard (?!)
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Sunday, Sunday...

Deeply perturbing irony?

Our digital camera broke.

There is no money to replace it.

The guy at the camera shop holds out very little hope for it.

So the rest of the Hawaii Trip will be relegated to cell phone pics (not horrible, but not great) or 35mm (which isn't bad for life, but bad for blogging and bad for being sure you 'have that shot'!)

Ah well...

Here's what the kids did today:

Northwest shore...we spellunked around and looked at (minor) tidepools. Muddy due to the soggy weather, nonetheless beautiful though.




Banzai Pipeline competition...in the rain. I didn't get the crazy 5 year old (!) who went out in a wet suit as we were leaving. The waves were, actually, much MUCH bigger than they look here.


Some gorgeous Southeast shore and...BLOWHOLE!

Southeast short too, near Hameahumehumahumahuma Bay where we'll go snorkling soon. You probably can't see the Humpback whales cresting and spouting in the distance. But they were there. Many many of them.

After this we tried for naps (HA!) and work (sigh) and then sat on the beach with the kids looking at the glorious surf. I watched more of the storm roll in--what a luxury to get to just sit and watch the kids play and not worry about anything else. At all. Spectacularly happy people in a spectacularly gorgeous place.

Paradise.

Saturday, February 23, 2008

USS. Bowfin

Happy boys.
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Thanks nine-eleven
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Blurry sure

But pretty good Tahitian dancer
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Friday, February 22, 2008

Surf dudes

Takin' after grandpa. . .
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Big tree. Little kids.

(and a food court!)
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Thing One's fave breakfast

Rice, soy sauce, miso, salmon, guava juice.
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Surf's up!

Need a board? there are plenty more. . .
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Sunset Waikiki!

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Boys. Leid.

At the first hotel, Princess Kaiulani at Waikiki
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Friday, January 04, 2008

On the road. . .

The best part. . .
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More. . .
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More splendor. . .
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Living room. . .
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Wednesday, August 22, 2007

Thank you, Thank you, and thank YOU!

I just wanted to send out a big thank you to the people who have written to see how I've been (eh), ask if I've seen a chiropractic doctor (not yet), and to find out how the computer situation is (better).

More soon, and many, many thanks.

And the Sunday Self Portrait


Tuesday, August 07, 2007

Redwood creek Pino Noir. Surprisingly

Redwood creek Pino Noir. Surprisingly good.
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Friday, August 03, 2007

Of Naps and Nighttime Knitting

I should get more sleep.

My husband will crack up when he sees this because, when he's home, I generally get eight hours (without which, you really don't want to be around me...really). When he's gone, though, I putter. I am able to putter my circuitous way around the house, putting up pictures, making things right, gradually going through drawers and filling boxes with Things To Go Elsewhere--not that they ever GET there...
If he were here it would only make him nervous. So. I save the putter for his trips.

But then, while puttering, I'll glance at a clock and see that it's nearly eleven p.m. and I've not knitted or woven or spun or...anything. And I get rather jittery and my hands start to twitch. And I stop whatever I'm doing pretty much mid-stream, and sit and knit. Or weave. Or something.

I've found that without question I sleep better after knitting etc. at night. I imagine it's something about the Alpha Waves or some such thing, but whatever it is, it works for me. Right now I'm in catch-up-sleep mode, Andrew having just returned, and I should take a nap. But instead, I'll probably finish warping the loom for the Huck Lace table runner.

So goeth the nap.

The runner had better be worth it!

OffTN: Syd's Horcrux Sox
OTN: Victorian Lace Sox, MS#3, Pomotomus (I'm so polygamous with my knitting...must be the influence of HBO's Big Love--Andrew will be glad it stops at knitting).

Oh, and speaking of Big Love, if you have HBO watch I Have Tourettes but Tourettes Doesn't Have Me.