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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Da bloggie wen holoholo ova hea.

Posted on May 6, 2014 by Mokihana

Big change.  HawaiiStories.com is undergoing a major facelift. Only Lika and I are left there, blogging away. Ryan will be creating something wonderful there, like stories from hanabata days, and more like a magazine kine ting, and although I could have stayed there, blogging away, it seemed like a good time to make a move ova hea.  Ho da scary.  Why? I going tell u why. Continue reading →

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Part Seventeen

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Mokihana

Back to Montana we go. Going get plenny ʻānuenue this time. The clouds were getting darker, but there was no rain.

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Part Sixteen

Posted on March 26, 2014 by Mokihana

K’den. Let’s continue da road trip, k?

So, last time, we’d just stopped in Missoula at Starbucks and seen the license plate from Hawaiʻi. It was a very quick stop; we still had a long ways to go till Bozeman. I called T, my cousin’s wife… oh, I no like how that sounds. So distancing, yeah? So, I called T and told her not to wait dinner for us; that we’d be there about nine. She was fine with that, so on we went.

Here we are, heading back mauka (but still get mauka all ova da place! Aftah all, we stay in da middo of da Rocky Mauka!); Interstate 90 is up in front of us, a few miles away.

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Spinnin’ Away

Posted on March 24, 2014 by Mokihana

So I thought I’d post some photos of some recent spinning that I’ve done. Cuz I no jass sit around da hale doing nuttin’, ya know.

So dis first one is called “Park Lane” by Snerb Fibers. It’s Blue-Faced Leicester, and I spun four ounces into a two-ply yarn. I have about 425 yards of it; don’t know what I’ll knit with it yet, though. Interesting colorway all spun up. I will knit a swatch with this before deciding on a project. I set it in a branch of my blooming Redbud Tree for the photo.

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My Spinning Wheel Stay Fixed!

Posted on March 12, 2014 by Mokihana

So yesterday my spinning wheel came back to me! I’d talked to Kyle at Paradise Fibers and he told me it was all pau and he was just getting ready to ship it back to me. So, not only did he fix what was broken, he also replaced a bushing, three bearings, and a piece that goes on the bottom of one of the legs! He just did it because he knew the wheel needed the restoration, and he told me that now it spun perfectly. Continue reading →

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Montana Road Trip 2010, Chapter Fifteen

Posted on March 4, 2014 by Mokihana

K’den. Time foa go back to Montana!

In Part Fourteen, Nolemana and I had just arrived at the Ranger Station at Lolo Pass. Now we’re about to head down hill. We’d barely driven any distance at all, and there was the sign we’d been looking for!

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My Spinning Wheel Wen Broke

Posted on February 27, 2014 by Mokihana

Well, I don’t mean my spinning wheel wen broke. I mean one of dem wen broke.

My Louet S70, is a workhorse. I bought it used about eighteen years ago. I already had a spinning wheel, but a friend of mine told me that her friend was selling her Louet and it’d be a really great wheel for me to have, especially for plying, because of its huge bobbins. And the price was perfect. So what did I do? I wen buyum, of course.

I took that wheel to my spinning guild and anywhere else that I needed a really portable wheel. It has served me faithfully and I really love it.

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