A Day in the Life of a Resident of Hawaii...8/18 or 8/19

[HankDfrmSD]

Originally Posted by Mar0

Get to work and deal with lots of mean, angry guests. Have a big dinner and then go feed the dog. Come back to work and deal with more, angry guests (its the tropics, we can't help it if we have roaches...) and then I am just about to leave and have one more angry guest to deal with.

Where do you work?

Hank

[SurfinGirl]

Woke up at 5:30 after snoozing a few times. I'm not used to getting up this early! Did the normal getting ready in the morning routine, left the house at 6:15 for work.

Drove from Kihei to Lahaina. Got to the harbor at 7:00, right on time (whew! I finally figured out the right time to be there on time, was late a couple times already to a new job!). Got the boat prepared for the day. Talked up tourists from all over the world all day. It was a great day! Made a lot of tips. The highlight was a great family visiting from Saudi Arabia. They were traveling through the whole country for the last two months and are finally going back home on Thrusday. They were lamenting on ending the vacation in Maui when they should have spent the whole time here! I guess the mom and dad honeymooned in Hana 14 years ago. They also had a very funny water fight on the boat, mom soaked the kids! Cleaned the boat at the end of the day and grabbed a Coke Icee from Burger King on my back to the car. Left Lahaina at about 6:20. Drove back to Kihei. The commute really doesn't seem so long now, plus it's such a beautiful drive.

Got home around 7. Sat with mom while she ate dinner, I wasn't hungry but was starting to feel pretty tired. Played around on the computer for a little while. Sat down and flipped between Star Wars ep. 2 and the Olympics (gymnastics again?). Went to bed dog tired at 10 pm.

[leilaniguy]

Monday; Went into Pahoa, bank, grocery. Worked on Ohana cottage, painting, new renter coming next week. Hacked down coconut fronds fallen across driveway. Fertilized cacao orchard, (trees are in full bloom right now). Took dogs for walk, noticed pothole in road was getting bad, thought about getting shovel & filling it. Didn't. Tuesday; Made bread dough, took dogs for walk, met up with Andy, taking his board to Pohoiki. Dogs met mongoose, bolted, had fun. Noticed that pothole was bigger. Came home, baked the bread, Chopped down ginger and bananas tangled in phone line. Today; Get drinking water, 12 one gallon jugs at Keonopoko taps. Will walk dogs, maybe take shovel with me.

[Jonah K]

8/19/08

Woke up around 3AM. That dang coqui frog that's been chirping for the past 9 hours sounds like it's on the lanai outside of my bedroom. I get up, grab a flashlight, put on a pair of slippahs and go outside. All is quiet -- that buggah's watching me.

I stand perfectly still for a couple of minutes and it chirps again. I turn around and spot the coqui on the lanai railing. It realizes that I've spotted it, so it jumps off the railing and starts hopping down the lanai towards the stairs. I take off my right slippah and start chasing it. After two strides, I catch up with the coqui and whack it a few times with my slippah. Unfortunately, I whacked it a little bit too much and end up having to rinse coqui guts off my slippah as well as the lanai.

Since it's still dark out and now quiet, I decide to go back inside and go to sleep. I wake up again around 6:30AM and go into the kitchen and decide to make a pot of coffee. I look at the coffee containers -- Kaua'i coffee, Kaua'i Peaberry coffee, Kona Coffee, Moloka'i coffee, Volcano coffee, Island Blend coffee. I have to remember not to buy any more coffee the next time I go to Trader Joe's in California.

On a whim, I decide to make a pot of Kaua'i Peaberry. While the coffee's brewing, I get dressed and turn on the television set. Mahealani Richardson's anchoring the "Island Television News This Morning" show on KITV. Hmm, a group called "the Kingdom of Hawaii, Nation" tried to take over 'Iolani Palace the other day and 73 year-old Donald Love-Boltz is the only person out of 23 that were arrested who's still in custody. In other news, Barack Obama's "body man" or personal assistant is named "Reggie Love." "There's a coincidence there somewhere," I muse as I pour myself a cup of coffee.

I open my fridge and look inside -- chicken laulau, tako poke, kim chi, tofu, day-old brown rice, a two day-old bento from KTA, Egg Beaters, Portuguese sausage, Meadow Gold haupia yogurt, and milk. I close the fridge and look on top of it -- Special K, Honey Nut Cherrios, Trader Joe's Apple Cinnamon Granola, Kashi Mountain Medley. I end up having a bowl of Special K along with the haupia yogurt. After breakfast, I turn on my laptop and surf the internet, visiting the local news websites, as well as City-Data.com.

Finding nothing interesting other than a topic entitled "A Day in the Life of a Resident of Hawai'i," I go outside and look at the sky to the northeast. It doesn't look like it'll rain much before noon, so I decide do a little yard work.

I open the garage and grab my machete and an axe. I go to the forested part of my yard and spot a couple of young Albizia trees several feet in. I use the machete to hack my way to the Albizia trees and cut them down with the axe. I look around and don't see any more invasive flora, so I walk back to the garage and clean off the machete and axe. I grab a bottle of Hawaiian Springs water from the garage fridge and decide to relax on the front lanai.

I look toward the driveway and notice the resident mongoose family going off into the forest for a day of foraging. The baby mongooses are getting big...

It's almost 10AM, so I decide to walk over to my neighbor's place for our daily "coffee clutch/talk story" session. A few hours later, I go home, empty all of the trash cans in the house into a couple of large trash bags and throw the bags in the back of my truck along with a gas can. I go to the Pahoa "transfer station" (ie. the dump) and discard the trash bags. After that, I decide to go to Aloha gas station and buy a few gallons of gas at $4.45/gallon. I thought briefly about buying gas at Paul's gas station since it's usually a little cheaper than Aloha, but according to the "coconut wireless," the gas there is "watered down."

I go home and put gas in my lawn tractor. I mow my yard as well as the parkway in front of the neighboring lots. I clean off the lawn tractor and drive it in the garage. I go inside, chain my shirt and decide to heat up that two day-old bento for lunch.

After finishing about half of the bento, I look outside and notice that it's starting to rain. I decide to turn on the living room television and watch the Olympics. A few hours later, I heat up the chicken laulau and brown rice for dinner. After dinner, I watch Usain Bolt and Lolo Jones run in the Olympic track and field events. Considering Lolo's disappointing performance, I wonder if her new nickname will be "Paka."

When the balance beam events come on, the coqui frogs start their nightly chirping; however, it's off in the distance so I probably won't have to whack any for a couple of days. I decide to take a shower and go to bed -- just another day in the tropical rainforest....

[Jungjohann]

Eh Jonah, great post!!!! Can come your house fo lunch??????As for me, the same as yesterday, just a little less of it, don't want to stress myself.....the amount of stuff I don't do, and the amount of time that it takes me not to do it, is truly impressive sometimes, well, the couch beckons...............

Aloha

[sonia s]

Originally Posted by Jungjohann

Woke up at 4:30 am, cats giving me stinkeye, kind of like,"don't even think about it", went back to sleep.......woke up again, around 5:30 am, just starting to get light outside, cats giving me the same look........back to sleep, finally up at 9:00 am, because the cat is threatening to pee on the carpet, let her out, she gave me stinkeye once again, must be my lot in life.......Roasted up some coffee, brewed it up, took a nap until 10:00 am or so on the couch......THAT'S WHAT THE DAMNED THING IS THERE FOR!!!!!!! Put my racing kayak onto the truck, launched from Makenna Boat Landing, snuck up on some turtles. Nowwwwww, I know you're not supposed to do that, they're floating on the surface, soaking up the sun, you sneak up on them, they dive for the bottom.....For years I thought I was seeing human fecal matter floating on the water out here, well, it's not........you can literally scare the **** out of a turtle, not that it's the right thing to do.......Paddled down to Puu Olai and back, got home, had a beer, and took a nap, ON THE COUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Need we go through that again........Another stressfull day, the sacrafices we make.........Oh well.........

Aloha

That was a barbarian's post.
You are NOT ALLOWED to do that to turtles. It is against the LAW.

[Jungjohann]

Eh, it's not like I paddled out there and speared the honu, took it home and BBQ'd it for lunch, (they are, however, rather tasty), I just snuck up on the buggah, and he, or she, (how do you tell?????), took a dive.

Aloha

Jungjohann, the barbarian, feared by turtles the world over, and the whales?????? We don't even want to get into that!!!!!!!!!