It is a conference about sex after all (rated R)

Actual conversation heard in my Speaker Slide Preview room earlier today.

Guy: "What is your typical day like?"

Girl: "I usually head down to the farm and jerk off horses."

Guy: Doesn't laugh, "Cool."

Legends and Stories

I went to a luau last night. Good food, and entertaining stories about the native peoples of Hawaii. If you are in Hawaii, go to a luau. It is worth it. I have a couple of videos that I took last night, they turned out really well, I just need to size them down for web viewing. Give me a day, I will upload them tomorrow for sure.

I have no pictures of the feral cats, if you want to see a cat go to the pet store and look at one, they look the same as the feral ones here.

I will get a picture of a mongoose, just didn't get a chance to the other day when I saw it. I am also sorry about no Manta Ray pictures, my little camera can't get a good shot. I will try again tonight and see what I can see.

My sister wants me to bring her back a piece of lava rock, which they seem to have a lot of around here. I will get a piece of the fresh stuff down, it has only been out of the bowels of the earth a couple of days.

Feral Cats, Mongoose and Spiders

You don't notice them at first, in fact I didn't notice them at all initially. I first was walking by a long stretch of hedges and saw little dog houses in amongst the brush. Not dog houses though, cat houses, all over the place. They are for all the wild cats living on the island. There are tons of them around the shopping center I had dinner at last night. At one point I saw about 9 of them sitting out in the grass waiting for the last bits of light to fade to start their evening activities. You will be walking along one of these hedges and every so often they will shake and something will shoot out the other side as you pass by.

I saw a mongoose too, looks like a smallish ferret. They are pretty cute.

I was also walking around waiting for my movie to start last night and walked behind some stores to get a better view of the ocean. Back behind the stores there was a little path that ran along the building. In each large window there was a 4 foot spider web with a largish black/grey spider with bright yellow marking sitting in the middle of the web. Each time I would approach as I moved down the path, the spiders would sense my presence and rear up, like they were ready to jump at me. It was kinda freaking me out.

There are no snakes on the island. Interesting. There are however a lot of little green geckos as you can see from the pictures.

Lava rock on the Coast

I was able to get out at lunch today and take a couple of pictures of the lava rock around the coast. It is pretty cool how the rock meets the ocean. There is also a picture of some of the local birds. They are really cute will little red heads. They like to steal the treats during the afternoon break time. Smart bird, going for the cookies and all.

No rain today

The rain has finally let up and the sun is out. The temp here is perfect, 70 at night and 80 during the day. Kinda humid, but you don't notice it to much. Here are a couple of picture that I took yesterday afternoon.

In Kona, HI

He I am, in beautiful Kona, HI. It has been a little bit overcast because the volcano is fairly active right now. It is dumping lava into the sea, which creates large billows of steam and fog. The locals call this vog, for volcanic fog. Here are some picture out the airplane and off my balcony in my room.

Dinner at the Schneider's (Tom Kha Soup)

A couple of months ago, Bridget Schneider called me and asked me to cook a dinner for her father as a gift. I agreed and finally, after several reschedules we had our dinner last night. Bill and Wanda, and Bill's niece and husband, and ViviAnne and I. I made Tom Kha, Red Chicken Curry, and Evil Jungle Prince for dinner. Sounds good huh! After dinner, we took a little walk out to Bill and Wanda's cabin and chatted for a while. Great fun and I was very happy to be able to cook for them again. Thanks Bridget! Even though it was a gift to her dad, I felt like it was a gift to all of us, plus Bridget's monetary donation was given to our scholarship fund for our student in Africa. Here is the Tom Kha soup recipe.

1/2 lb chicken breast (cut into bite size pieces)
1 onion (chopped into largish bite size pieces)
2 green onions (sliced thin)
1 inch section of ginger (sliced thin)
1/2 tsp of red curry paste
3 cups coconut milk
2 cups water
1 Tbsp olive oil
1/2 cup mushroom ( chopped)
1/4 cup lime juice
cilantro to garnish

Saute mushrooms in olive oil for a couple of minutes, add in onions and red curry paste for additional minute. Add coconut milk, water, chicken, lime juice and ginger; bring to boil and reduce to simmer. Simmer for about a hour. Garnish with cilantro and be ready for no left overs.

We had a friend who demanded that her husband buy this soup for her every day while she was pregnant... they spent several thousand dollars on this soup. It is one of the best soups I have made.

Sprinklers are fun...

So the other day, Liam and Asa came up to me while I was out in our back yard getting ready to water our wind break. They asked if they could play in the sprinkler.

I said, "yes, of course that would be a fun thing for you to do."

I went off into the field and left them to sort out the sprinkler for themselves. I came back around the side of the house to discover that they put the sprinkler inside my car and turned it on!

They explained that they wanted to wash the inside of the car...

I love kids. So loving.

Hurray, hurray, It's May!

So, I have been a big slacker in terms of posting to my blog. Sorry about that. May is finally here and I could not be more happy. It seems most of my plants and tree around the house have made it through the winter and are doing well. My trip to Hawaii begins in just one week, so that will be very fun. ViviAnne and I are looking forward to spending some time hiking and seeing the big island. Neither one of us has ever been, so it will be quite an adventure.

I will have to post more later on. This is a busy week for me!