NB:\u00a0 After tomorrow (February 22)\u00a0updates will become sporadic until March 1st when I return to Minnesota.\u00a0 Da Fish Shack, the place I move to after the Hyatt, does not have any internet access.\u00a0<\/p>\n
I will post from internet cafes, but right now don’t know about locations, access.<\/p>\n
The afternoon sun (it’s 4:41PM) has raised the temperature to the low 80’s, but that will soon start to fall.\u00a0 Cool mornings, hot midday and cool evenings and nights.\u00a0 Just right if you have the sense to stay out of the midday sun.\u00a0 You, Englishmen and mad-dogs and, it turns out, resort goers.\u00a0 I’ve never understood sun exposure when it burns.\u00a0 First, it hurts.\u00a0 Second, as you get older, it can really hurt.\u00a0 Plus, you get hot and sweaty. What’s not to like?<\/p>\n
Kate’s listening to the last disc of\u00a0five novels, two sets of 30+ discs per novel.\u00a0 They are all set in the same universe and include a heroic female doctor.\u00a0 Hmmm.<\/p>\n
Just finished a book on the geology of Kauai.\u00a0 I love geology and find the Hawai’ian archipelago fascinating.\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
Spoke to a wood carver this morning.\u00a0 An older guy with a silver earring and a blue and white ginger shirt, he carved koa wood as he talked.\u00a0 He lives on Kauai but travels, some time for months.\u00a0\u00a0 “When I come back, the garden’s hopeless.\u00a0 It’s always summer here.”\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n
Also spoke to two gardners who were using tools unfamiliar to me.\u00a0\u00a0Both of them looked handy and the Filipino gardner, who spoke little English, did know where I could get them, “Home Depot!”\u00a0 That fits.\u00a0 I bought gas last night at the Costco outside of Lihue with my Costco cash card.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
NB:\u00a0 After tomorrow (February 22)\u00a0updates will become sporadic until March 1st when I return to Minnesota.\u00a0 Da Fish Shack, the place I move to after the Hyatt, does not have any internet access.\u00a0 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 … Continue reading Posting Will Slow Down<\/span>