Quirky Quips & Sewing Snips
Here in Makaha Valley, some of the neighbors are more colorful then others. I keep trying to coax these guys — oh, excuse me, the big one is a gal — home for dinner. O’Ceallaigh says they’re tough and I really won’t enjoy them. [...]
OC and I went to Ma’ili (ma–E–lee) Beach again the other day. OC was looking for seaweed, as usual. I was looking for (well, I didn’t really have to look, they’re everywhere) shells. My favorite shells are the ones worn smooth by the sea. In Friday Harbor and on Vancouver [...]
OC and I have company. He’s a very considerate guest. Mostly he hangs out in the 15 ft. corner of the slanted ceiling. We hardly ever use that spot ourselves. [...]
Those of you who envy me Hawaii, enjoy this reality: there is a banana-sized flying cockroach behind my refrigerator. I swatted it out of the air last night and it scurried under the fridge. It just peeked out and looked at me. One of us will be dead before the [...]
OC made light of the centipede episode, but I really didn’t take it all that lightly. We leave the windows wide open so the breeze can blow through the house — the standard in island air conditioning — and occasionally other things blow through as well. Last night it was [...]