Category Archives: Da Kine: Sometimes Full-on Pidgin

  In the pasture around the corner from us, the lupine is blooming. It is so beautiful!!

Nolemana and I had an appraisal to do up in Government Camp; it was a gorgeous day, and the mountain was out!

  We’re having GW Construction in Gresham build a carport for my new kawila; we should’ve done it years ago, but didn’t. And as a result, my white van was hard to keep clean; she’d get fir sap, fir pollen, … Continue reading →

  Eh. Try look! Stays snowing outside! In June! Nah nah nah. It’s da fluff from da cottonwood trees. LOL.

  I can’t put my license plate on yet because I haven’t gotten my new registration, but in the meantime my license plate frame tells the world that I’m a local girl to the core! But I don’t have that … Continue reading →

  I can remember the old Honolulu Airport, where we could walk up to the chain link fence to either say “aloha ʻoe” or “aloha!”, depending on whether someone was leaving or arriving. I have a photo of two of … Continue reading →

I know, I know. I said that the spinner gets to stay on the kawila till it alla way falls off. But when we turned in my white car to the dealer, we took it off, knowing that they would … Continue reading →

My kawila, my faithful kawila, used to have all kine stickers on it. Like “100% Tita”, and “Live Aloha”, and “Aloha Happens”. But today it is bare. Nomo da IZ sticka on da side window. Hakum? Cuz dis kawila get … Continue reading →

This awesome Chevy was following us down Sunshine Valley Road; I pulled over so Nolemana could snap a photo of it. I’m pretty sure it’s a Chevy Deluxe 1952. It was really loud, and wish I’d felt good enough to … Continue reading →

  I went over to take some haupia to my daughter, Leilani, who’d just had her tonsils out. She can’t have anything dairy right now, and she loves haupia, and I was delighted to make it for her. We sat … Continue reading →