Author Archives: Mokihana

A Year Ago Yesterday…

Posted on January 24, 2020

…we drove up to Salmon Creek Hospital in Vancouver at dark-thirty for my second knee surgery. This is crossing the Columbia River at 5:00 a.m. I was amazed at how much traffic there was at this early hour.

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Da Kine Numbah Eight

Posted on January 18, 2020

I’m trying hard to keep up with taking a photo a day for 365 days again; I pretty well fell off the wagon doing it last year along about September.  So some of what I’ve done this year will be … Continue reading →

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter 48

Posted on January 5, 2020

Hilahila au to da max. No can believe I’ve ignored my poor litto bloggie for so long. In many ways, it’s been a really difficult year, but I gotta pau this road trip! The last time I wrote was back … Continue reading →

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A Heartwarming Beginning to the New Year

Posted on January 1, 2020

Nolemana and I were on our way to the gym yesterday, and stopped at a red light at Burnside/Division  (four lanes plus turning lanes each street) heading northwest. Traffic was very heavy. I was about 3 cars back from the … Continue reading →

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Stories, Number Four

Posted on November 7, 2019

Well, for this story, I’m going to re-blog a post I wrote ‘way back in 2005, and all in pidgin. Cuz no can write stories about hanabata days in Hawaiʻi without getting da pidgin in dea, yeah? No ask me … Continue reading →

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Autumn Colors

Posted on October 10, 2019

This year it looks like we’ve gone from summer to winter…no warm temps in the 70’s as usual, as it’s been for years and years. Nope. There hasn’t been any in-between season marking the end of warm and hot days … Continue reading →

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Pīpī Faces

Posted on September 21, 2019

As I was driving along a road on the other side of the hill from us, I saw these pīpī faces and just had to stop and photograph them for AFK. I especially love the one with the black spots … Continue reading →

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Da Kine Numba Seven

Posted on September 2, 2019

Sunflowers in da horse trough:

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Lipizzaner Stallions

Posted on August 22, 2019

Ho, one blast from da past! I was going through old PictureTrail photos, and came across these ones. This was before I had a cell phone, so uploaded them from my memory card. Remember dem tings? Well, I still use … Continue reading →

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Forty-Seven

Posted on August 17, 2019

Well, I just finished going back and redoing all the photos from Da Mystery Road Trip Revealed from 2009.  I decided that I wasn’t happy with having all our photos messed up like that; and I’d worked too darn hard … Continue reading →

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