NB: After tomorrow (February 22) updates will become sporadic until March 1st when I return to Minnesota. Da Fish Shack, the place I move to after the Hyatt, does not have any internet access.
I will post from internet cafes, but right now don’t know about locations, access.
The afternoon sun (it’s 4:41PM) has raised the temperature to the low 80’s, but that will soon start to fall. Cool mornings, hot midday and cool evenings and nights. Just right if you have the sense to stay out of the midday sun. You, Englishmen and mad-dogs and, it turns out, resort goers. I’ve never understood sun exposure when it burns. First, it hurts. Second, as you get older, it can really hurt. Plus, you get hot and sweaty. What’s not to like?
Kate’s listening to the last disc of five novels, two sets of 30+ discs per novel. They are all set in the same universe and include a heroic female doctor. Hmmm.
Just finished a book on the geology of Kauai. I love geology and find the Hawai’ian archipelago fascinating. It has plate tectonics, vulcanism, erosion, orographic rainfall, diversity of eco-systems created by geological formations and the persistent presence of the oceans and the trade winds.
Spoke to a wood carver this morning. An older guy with a silver earring and a blue and white ginger shirt, he carved koa wood as he talked. He lives on Kauai but travels, some time for months. “When I come back, the garden’s hopeless. It’s always summer here.” He doesn’t do wood block prints, but he does do kanji and Chinese ideograms as well as story boards, illustrations of Hawai’ian legend and folktales.
Also spoke to two gardners who were using tools unfamiliar to me. Both of them looked handy and the Filipino gardner, who spoke little English, did know where I could get them, “Home Depot!” That fits. I bought gas last night at the Costco outside of Lihue with my Costco cash card.