Throwback Thursday Numba Chree

Posted on May 22, 2014 by Mokihana

Here’s an old photo of me and my brother down at Ala Wai Yacht Harbor again.  I think we were watching our papa-san rowing in. Try look my curly Portagee hair!  Barefoot keiki, hanabata days. Good memories.  I think we were about four and three here.

Mokihana and Kaniela at Ala Wai Yacht Harbor 1944

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Twenty

Posted on May 17, 2014 by Mokihana

We were now heading northeast on Highway 86, and as always, I kept my eyes open for pīpī photos for AFK.  I saw these two mama cows with their calves, so we stopped to take photos. Which was really easy because there was absolutely no other traffic on this highway.

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Throwback Thursday Numbah Two

Posted on May 15, 2014 by Mokihana

I remembered to do it!

This is a photo of my papa-san rowing my brother Kaniela and me around the Ala Wai Yacht Harbor.  Our dad loved the ocean, being on the water, and sailing, and I am so blessed that he started us early.  We were never afraid of the water, and I know we got that from Dad.

And check it out.  No life vests or anything.

Moki, Dan, Dad, Ala Wai Yacht Harbor

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Lā Makuahine 2014 – Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge

Posted on May 14, 2014 by Mokihana

My daughter Anela wondered if I’d like to go to Ridgefield for Mother’s Day.  Would I!  You betcha!  My other daughter, Leilani, was out of town, so Anela and I headed out just after noon on Saturday.

She bought me a latté and took a selfie.  I’m not a huge fan of selfies (mines ones), but on Friday I realized that there are no photos of my mom and me, so I wen hemo my reservations about it and went for the gusto.  I want my girls to have photos of us together.  So even though I feel kinda ack about da photo….

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Especially for AFK

Posted on May 12, 2014 by Mokihana

I saw this video and immediately thought of you, AFK, my pīpī-loving sista.  Had to post it!  Enjoy!

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Part Nineteen

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Mokihana

Some of the photos from the Battle Ridge area are on my old cell phone.  I have to see if I can upload them here.  There was snow on the ground and I took them with my cell phone so that I could send them to my friend, who loves snow. This part of our drive would prove to be one of the most beautiful ones we’d ever taken in Montana.  We were headed towards the Crazy Mountains, and if you’d like to read more about they got their name, try go here. It’s a pretty fascinating story.

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Moving Up In Da World

Posted on May 10, 2014 by Mokihana

At the encouragement from Ryan and Kerrie I got my own domain yesterday.  More geekiness, yeah?  Was kinda scary.  Moving from my blog.wordpress.com was just supposed to take “a few minutes”, WP said.  So I waited about five minutes and nothing had happened. Oh no!  I wen poof my bloggie?  Ack!

But after about twenty minutes, there it was!  And here I am.  Kinda exciting!

Mahalo nui, you two, for the help and encouragement!

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Throwback Thursday Numbah One

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Mokihana

So on Facebook lots of people are doing “Throwback Thursday”, where they post photos of themselves from years past.  So I thought, watdaheck and decided to do it here.  No guarantees that I’ll remember to do it every week, but I’ll try.

So today’s photo is of me when I was four years old and in pre-school at Church of the Crossroads on Varsity Avenue. I don’t have many memories of this time and there are only two photos of me there.  I wish I knew what I was thinking about here.

Always barefoot. Local keiki to the core.

mokihana age 4

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Cone Sushi-Making Day 2009

Posted on May 7, 2014 by Mokihana

So back in February, 2009, my Gathering friends decided they’d like to have a sushi-making day.  Plenny times I’d bring cone sushi to our potlucks, and they loved it so much they wanted to learn how to make it themselves.

So we planned a day to do it, and I brought over my 10-cup rice cooker, the rice, the seasoning, and the inari,  and started the rice cooking.  When it was pau, I piled it onto a cookie sheet so that A could start cooling it off.

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Eighteen

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Mokihana

Ho.  Weird.  My first real blog post ova hea.  We’ll see how it goes. Everything looks the same as on HawaiiStories, but somehow I feel just a bit unanchored.  Oh.  That’s not a word.  Too bad.  It’s how I feel.  I left Lika all by herself ova dea.  But I digress.  We stay going back to Montana.  Hele on! Continue reading →

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