Category Archives: Da Kine: Sometimes Full-on Pidgin

  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 →

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 →

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.

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

  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 →