365 Days 2023, Numbah Sixty-One

Posted on August 27, 2023 by Mokihana

August 6th

Daily hummingbird on a cloudy morning.
Bumblebee on lavender. It’s so hard to get a non-blurry photo!
It’s also hard to get some spinning done when my chair is occupied!
Da daily pīpī.
Da daily pīpī again.

I love this photo of all da pīpī! Lani Moo and Hōkū in front. See how much darker Hōkū is now? Also, do you notice anything interesting about Bessie?

August 7th

Daily hummingbird.
Daily pīpī…they discovered the apple tree today.

August 8th

Daily hummingbird.
Lani Moo in the apple tree. She loves to scratch her back in here, too.
Hummingbird in the garden.
A better daily pīpī photo.
Daily hummingbird and tomatoes. Last year our tomato crop was terrible, but this year it is much better.

August 9th

Auē, auē… Lahaina is burning! I spent so many happy hours here, and my heart aches for all my people.
I spent many hours underneath the banyan tree. I hope it survives. And my heart goes out to all the people dead, or unaccounted for.

August 10th

Daily hummingbird.
Huge Mallow flower at the office where we pick up da kau kau.
Mt. Everest food deliveries coming to get unloaded and sorted. Ho da tall!!
Ready to go home for more sorting.
Daily pīpī and Andrew, our incredible helper, taking the rubbish bins from the burn pile back up to where he was working.
Pau food deliveries, I drove Nolemana to his ophthalmologist appointment in Lake Oswego, and sat knitting underneath “my” oak tree.
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About Mokihana

Born and raised Hawaiʻi girl who misses home and loves the Pacific Northwest. I’m a free spirit and love the serendipitous events that bring people and places together. My philosophy about knitting and life in general: “It is good to have an end to journey toward,but it is the journey that matters in the end.”Ursula K. Le Guin
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2 Responses to 365 Days 2023, Numbah Sixty-One

  1. AFK's avatar AFK says:
    August 27, 2023 at 5:02 pm

    Is Bessie hāpai? Do da pīpī eat da apples?
    I can’t believe there’s still so much chaos and disorganization in Lahaina in trying to figure out who is alive and who is missing.
    I hope you guys aren’t getting bad wildfire smoke.

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    • Mokihana's avatar Mokihana says:
      August 28, 2023 at 3:19 pm

      You’re a great observer! Yes, Bessie is hāpai! Her calf is due in November! And they’ve eaten a few apples which are not quite ripe yet. I expect they’ll eat more in a few weeks.

      So true about Lahaina, yeah? About missing people, about how the fire started, the barricades, etc. No wonder everyone’s so frustrated.

      We’ve had bad wildfire smoke…there’s one burning near Sandy, not too far from us.

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