365 Days Numba Four

Posted on February 2, 2022 by Mokihana

January 27th

These are my cohorts for food deliveries, Jill Rowland and Chris Olson of All County Realtors. They pick up the food from the distribution point and Nolemana and I divide the boxes with our friend, Dave. Then off we go!

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Montana Road Trip 2020, Chapter Forty-nine

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Mokihana

Nothing like leaving you folks stranded in the Palouse country for two whole years! I’m sorry for the long delay. Blame it on Covid or quarantining or something. I’d really like to get this finished after so long. Sheesh to da max. I can hardly believe that we took this trip twelve years ago!

So here we are in Palouse country…I do love the wide open spaces.

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365 Days Numba Chree

Posted on January 30, 2022 by Mokihana

Here we go again! I so grateful to you, my followers, for encouraging me along this journey. You helped me to make a really good decision! I think I’ll do five days at a time from now on since I generally post more than one photo.

January 21st

Another very foggy morning.
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365 Days Numba Two

Posted on January 27, 2022 by Mokihana

January 11th

Daily Hummingbird. Smoke from a neighbor’s burn pile in the background.
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Imua: 365 Days on da Bloggie

Posted on January 25, 2022 by Mokihana

K’den. Mahalo to all of you who encouraged me to do this. I’m already feeling so much better about doing it here! I’ll probably do about ten days per post.

January 1st

Daily Hummingbird
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To Project 365 or Blog 365 Days…

Posted on January 24, 2022 by Mokihana

On a knitting community website I belong to, there’s a group called Project 365. In it, people are encouraged to post one photo a day for the whole year. I joined in 2013 and actually completed several years of photos. It was a fun group. Was. Now I’m the only one there, and the last person joined two whole years ago. So I’ve been posting daily all by myself for a long time now, and I’ve been thinking that it might be more fun to document my photos here instead. It’s been a little discouraging to be the only one there.

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First Da Kine of 2022

Posted on January 6, 2022 by Mokihana

Because, well, life is full of da kine. Nothing worthy in and of itself to be noteworthy, but combined, I have enough for a blog post.

New Year’s Day ice on our deck panels.

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Beginnings… and Endings

Posted on January 2, 2022 by Mokihana

2021 was a really hard year for me. I lost my special pōpoki, Noelani, in January, and I’ve lost three very close friends since August, and their deaths have hit me hard. You’d think, since in the past I’ve been a prolific journaler, that words would fly out of my mind like the wind that’s gusting here now. Instead, I’ve been numb. And depressed. I know, thanks to Megan Divine at Refuge in Grief, that this is a common reaction for grieving people. Maybe I’m afraid of all the intense feelings that will come up, though I’ve gone through lots of intense feelings before. I got Megan’s wonderful grief journal, “How to Carry What Can’t Be Fixed”, had it spiral bound so that I could write easier in it, and haven’t even been able to do that. I’ve read several pages and can tell that it’s an amazing way to process grief. My goal this year is to work through it. And if you are dealing with grief, I highly recommend Megan’s website. In the meantime, and during that process, I’m intending to write on my blog again. I think that can be a healing thing, too.

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Goldfinches. Many, many, Goldfinches

Posted on September 29, 2021 by Mokihana

My daughter, Leilani, has tons of Goldfinches in there place. I’ve had none. Zero. Well, I saw one brightly colored male one this spring, but he went elsewhere. Leilani suggested that we switch to hulled sunflower seed to see if that would increase our Goldfinch population. So we did. And now my motto is, if you do that, they will come. Not only will a few of them come, but they will bring their entire ʻohana, calabash cousins, and anybody else that they happen to see.

Goldfinches are now eating us out of house and home. The seed is really expensive, and the inside hulls are messy. But having all these guys around is helping to brighten up my days, so to me, it’s worth it. Even though I have two feeders with the seeds up, the birdies fight and argue over who’s going to get to them first. There’s a lot of action at the feeders. There are so many Goldfinches that they can empty a tube feeder in about a day and a half. We can’t afford to keep filling yet another feeder, so the sweet birdies are going to have to keep trying to settle it among themselves. It seems like every day brings more of them. Am I sorry I started this? Nope. Not at all.

(If you turn the sound way up, you can hear them arguing about who gets to kapu the perches on the feeder.)

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Silence

Posted on September 27, 2021 by Mokihana

It’s been since June 6th that I’ve posted. I used to be so prolific with my posts, yet I’ve let more than three months go by without a word. I think it’s because the world just got to be too much for me, and it’s been a struggle to keep my head above water. During this time I’ve lost three friends; and during the past few years I’ve lost four more, along with my favorite uncle (none to Covid, though). I lost my sweet kitty, Noelani. I haven’t even been journaling, which is really unusual for me. When I add all the pandemic stuff to that, it’s been pretty overwhelming. Some days I feel like I just want to go back to bed and curl up all day long. But I don’t. I go to the gym, I meet outside with my Gathering sisters, I do household chores, and I take lots of photos. I keep in touch with friends and family, and I love watching all the birds that come to the feeders outside my office window. But depression follows my footsteps.

My life kinda feels like this, though. One more thing I gotta deal with.

I think that getting back to blogging will help. So here I am. Imua.

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