Aloha all,

The Velvet half of Dan and Velvet's Kona opted for a life more worthy of her.
It now only Dan's Kona.
This is the last photo I have of the one I once loved, the one that got away.

 

 

 

Summer 2011 Dan made this really comfy swing.

Not unusual Hawaiian landscaping.

9/1/11

Aloha To All,

Dan and Velvet at Hale Eden since 6/7/11.  Drought goes on, 2 + yrs now, 1/4 normal rainfall but land stays green.

Hale Eden Videos 8/30/11  (Try with ear buds)

View from deck (2:25) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKA-DR5UNLo

Inside  (5:04)                 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKqYsV4oWUQ

Front outside  (1:59)    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHrUMtkyGxI

Another fine sunset.

An interesting closeup of the sunset in the previous post.

Our hanging garden.

One of our summer '10 projects: 40' long curving concrete walk in the front yard.

Look at these strange things. It's some kind of weed that grows along the road where we walk daily.

They're thin like little balloons, full of air or other gas under pressure.

We learned to weave baskets at the local cultural festival. We made these from coconut palm.

Afternoon rain on 4th of july.

Dan's magic spirit rain maker. Still trying to get it correctly tuned.

Kona outdoor market

Pam's first pineapple harvest

Pam & Doug

Pam Velvet

Tryin' to make new friends

Doug Pam Dan Velvet Hookena Beach

Dan & Doug loading up

Dan Velvet Tiffy, friends Pam & Doug

Pam Tiffy Velvet Kealekekua Bay

We tied up here for lunch.

We cool.

The pineapple patch

Now eaten.

Resident of our kitchen, and good buddy Greenie, prefers boysenberry jam with the seeds in. Loves bugs too.

And he's really quite interested in us and what's going on.

Greenie, quite the gentleman, thanks me for the snack.

July 5, 2010

Aloha all,

We're here on island again since June 6, 2010. The drought goes on. We've had only an inch of rain this month, 1/4 - 1/5 of normal. Our friends hand watered for us the two months we were on the mainland so things look ok still. At this writing friends Doug and Pam of Indio have come and gone, having stayed 3 days. We all went on a kayak picnic at Kealekekua Bay and swam amongst some playful dolphins. So cool.

Star Fruit from the back yard.

Beautiful day for a luau. Fortunately we put up an additional plastic tarp above the table and seating as we did get wonderfully rained on during dinner.

Readying for luau gathering. What a lovely presentation.

Getting it together for luau.

Luau '09 Dan Daiva Velvet John Augie Cindi Ken Brad Linda Fey Pat

Hula sisters Cindi Daiva Velvet Linda hula'd for our luau.

Friends Pat & Fey from Costa Mesa stayed a couple of days summer '09.

Long time pals.

Creating the design for an ipu.

Drawing on the design.

Carving the ipu.

Ipu now drys for 2 weeks or so at which time the top is cut off and it is filled with coffee. After another 6 weeks the coffee and innards are removed, and stink, perhaps where it's name comes from. And so then the the coffee has stained the areas where the skin was not carved off. This ipu is shown finished in a later post.

Some flowers behind the house.

One of our winter 2010 projects, turning this into a garage.

Four wheel drive is amazing.

Your basic iceburg boulder. Only the top portion was visible at first.

Look at this big boy.

I think I can.

Down they go. The car was in neutral all the way. One boulder passed me on the way down.