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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

Keola Meets Noelani

  It was time for Keola and Noelani to meet. We’d been keeping her in the laundry room for quarantine for a few days and to get her used to being somewhere other than the shelter. So we put her … Continue reading

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♫ ♪ Went to the Shelter and I Got Me a Kitty, Part Three ♪ ♫

Okay, I have a third chapter to this story, and I hope you all will enjoy reading it. I had a real hard morning on August 23rd, two days after I’d brought Keola home; I had to have an MRI … Continue reading

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♪ Went to the Shelter and I Got Me a Kitty, Part Two ♪

Today’s post is about the kitten that I had to leave at the shelter so she could get spayed. And there is kind of a wonderful story to tell about her, aside from the fact that I got her.

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♪ ♫ Went to the shelter and I got me a kitty…♫ ♪ ♫

Remember the song “Goin’ to the Chapel and I’m Gonna Get Married”? Well… ♪ Went to the shelter and I got me a kitty♫ ♪ ♪ Went to the shelter and I got me a kitty♫ ♪. ♪ Gee, I … Continue reading

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Pōpoki Tales

The other day a good friend of mine said she hadn’t seen any new posts lately; I didn’t even know she read my blog. I knew I hadn’t posted recently; my heart hasn’t really been in it since ʻUkulele died. … Continue reading

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ʻUkulele and Her Yarn

Here is a photo of my girl with one of the skeins of yarn that she brought me. I combined it with a photo of a mokihana lei for my Ravelry ravatar. I thought it would kinda be like the … Continue reading

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ʻUkulele’s Gifts

This is a post long time coming. I just haven’t been able to write it because my grief has been too sharp, too deep, too wide, too painful. But now I think I’m ready to do this one. In it, … Continue reading

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Tribute to ʻUkulele, Part Two

It all began one morning when Nolemana and I went to a store that carried indoor fountains. They were really cool; you could have plants in them, and you could choose your own rock for the water to cascade down. … Continue reading

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A Tribute to ʻUkulele

It’s been a month. A hard month of grieving for ʻUkulele. I still can’t say her name without wai maka to da max. She was my special girl, the warm, purring presence who snuggled up next to me every night, … Continue reading

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Aloha ʻoe e ʻUkulele

  I get so much wai maka foa rite too much now… ʻUkulele now stay at peace, and like our vet says, her spirit soaring. I wen make dis collage of her and one mokihana lei… I stay so lonely … Continue reading

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