A Mānoa Girl's Bloggie

So much wen happen since da last chaptah! I get tons of photos of all kine stuffs for post… den we wen get snowed in here foa two weeks. I shoulda updated da blog den!

Anyways, dis da final chaptah of our trip to California. Continue reading →

Let’s see. How many days I stay stuck up hea? Nine? Ten? Da snow is beginning to look like one padded cell! Continue reading →

We’re in the midst of the most severe winter storm in about forty years.

Gresham, just North of us, has been declared in a state of emergency; 50% of the roads are impassable and the National Guard has been called in. Continue reading →

Got this from my friend ova hea… lucky her, she’s in Hawai‘i while I’m in the middle of snow, ice and 18-degree weather!
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On this day, sixty-seven years ago, my mom and dad were in their house (which would be considered a shack today) up on Tantalus, high above Honolulu, when the attack on Pearl Harbor began. From ‘way up there, they could see the bombs falling, the smoke, the planes and the fires. Like everyone else, they were completely unprepared for the catastrophe. Continue reading →

First of all, I would like to say that:

1: It was NOT ME who was cranky on Sunday.

2: It was NOT ME who ate too much at our church’s Thanksgiving potluck dinner.

3: It was NOT ME who was upset at the dog for being too lazy to move out of her way so that she almost tripped over that furry blob.

4: It was NOT ME who didn’t put away the laundry. (However, I think whoever it was should get some credit for folding all of it.)

5: It was NOT ME who spent too much time at the computer instead of doing something more productive. Like putting away laundry.

That’s a terrible list. Sure glad it was NOT ME! Nope. Not even.

Nolemana’s papa-san was an amazing man. Vitally interested in anything mechanical and not afraid to try anything, when he was eighty-four years old, shortly after Nolemana’s mom died, Roy built an ultralight aircraft for my brother in law. He built it from a kit, and worked on it in his garage; the final product sat out on his front yard in Paradise, CA, and what a beauty it was! My brother in law still flies in it to this very day. Continue reading →

Well, I’m too late to be included in her blog links, but I like the idea of Not Me Monday started over here. Better late than never. But eh, try wait! It’s still Monday here! Continue reading →