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a trip to the beach for crabs and art

Still working on those Ko’olau mountains. Painting landed face-down in water but got me the desired effect.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Update: Thanksgiving photos are in the album – click the photo to see them. This is something I’ve been wanting to do for at least 6 years. As I created our Christmas card, drawn from all the photos of our travels to be with family and friends this year, I was thankful for so much. [...]

I’m a turkey!

Today mom, the boys and I went to base to run errands for Thanksgiving – getting the permit for the pavilion I rented on the beach (on the Marine Corps Base), get some champagne and sparkling cider, and check out the pavilions once again in person. While at the beach, we did some watercolor painting [...]

Gramma is here!

Helping Gramma move into her “coddage”. Mom arrived on Tuesday and it seems like we haven’t caught our breath since! We’ve helped her move in, I got a run on the beach (my calves are still sore!) and the boys are enjoying having her so close by, close enough for a drop-in any time. We [...]

A day in the life…

Today is our usual hiking day with our buddies, but since we also needed to finally hit the commissary, we decided to do another favorite activity: bike/run the fish ponds look on base. We start at the playground and head out around the ponds, stopping first at the bridge where we found fish romping and [...]