No Snow On Da Mountain

Posted on January 9, 2014 by Mokihana

So last week Nolemana and I had an appraisal to do in Government Camp, up on the slopes of Mt Hood. Which, by now, should be covered in snow, making skiers and snowboarders and cross country folks very happy. And normally I’d have studded tires on to make it possible to drive on the snowy, hilly, roads up there. But guess what? No skiers, no boarders, no studded tires. Why? Cuz nomo da snow! Continue reading →

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Da Bestest Christmas Present Ever

Posted on December 29, 2013 by Mokihana

I’ve known for quite awhile that the likelihood of having moʻopuna is pretty non-existent. Which has caused a huge ache in my heart. Especially as I watch most of my friends rejoicing when there are new, tiny, additions to their families. I look at their grandbabies’ photos and can be happy for them, but inside, I have really been hurting. It’s been really hard to hear the announcements that they have new grandkids coming. Continue reading →

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Ho Da Foggy!!

Posted on December 17, 2013 by Mokihana

Foa da past chree days, ho da foggy!! Along the roads sometimes only can see maybe one-eighth of a mile. And ho da stupidheads who no turn on dea headlights! Da fog is all the way down to the roadway, and visibility is pretty bad. Parking lights do no good; gotta put on the headlights. K’den. Pau rant. Continue reading →

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December, 2013

Posted on December 15, 2013 by Mokihana

Seriously, I have more going on in my life than a new mattress. So now gotta play catch-up.

On December 2, my friends from The Gathering and I went holoholo kaʻa on a 3 1/2 day beach retreat to Seaside, Oregon. The weather peeps had been warning us that a major cold front was approaching, with snow very cold temps, but the morning we left we had clear roads and pretty blue skies. Two of my friends have reserved seats in my van every time we go to the beach, and I picked them up at 10 a.m. in Portland; the three of us always travel together so well, and this time was no exception. I couldn’t get Christmas music (yet) on Sirius XM (oh yeah, another freebie that came with my new kawila!), so all the way over we listened to Hanukkah music and it was wonderful! Continue reading →

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Da Princess and Da Pea: Judgment Day

Posted on December 7, 2013 by Mokihana

K’den. It’s been chree weeks sleeping on da Tempur-Pedic mattresss. Neva wen find one pea. And sometimes I still wake up in da morning wit one backache, but it goes away much moa fass den it did wit da old mattress.

Also, I’m sleeping moa betta; deeper sleep, and no tossing and turning like befoa. Usually now I jass turn ova one time, and seems like I’m sleeping moa deep and I’m waking up less tiyad. Continue reading →

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Try Look Wat Nolemana Wen Find!

Posted on November 15, 2013 by Mokihana

So Nolemana’s been cleaning out Da Puka, this storage room wea we get all kine stuffs. Get plenny jars of stuff I’ve canned through the years, but these two I’d forgotten about.

I used to enter stuffs in da county fair, and try look! Dese ones wen get prizes!!

Third prize foa crabapple jelly.

And second prize foa pickled crabapples.

Oh how I miss our crabapple tree!! Tonight we going check out if da crabapples and jelly still stay ‘ono.

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Da Princess and Da Pea: Night Two

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Mokihana

1. Last night I slept pretty good on da new mattress. The odor had almost dissipated (ho da big word, yeah?) and didn’t bother me at all.

2. I did use a second pillow because the night before, because I wasn’t sinking so far into the bed, it felt like my head was too low. As in lower than the rest of me. That helped a lot. I may get a new pillow at some point because the one I used to slept with is getting pretty smooshed. Continue reading →

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The Princess and Da Pea Revisited

Posted on November 13, 2013 by Mokihana

So you folks know da story, right? A young woman was tested to see if she was worthy of marrying the prince; she had to detect a pea that was placed underneath twenty mattresses and twenty featherbeds.

Well, that’s not exactly my story. Mine is that every day for the past year I’ve been waking up with a backache in the small of my back that’s relieved by putting a warm microwaveable da kine there for about fifteen minutes. Every morning. Our mattress is a firm one, and so ontop that we have 3″ of memory foam. But it was still too firm (even after we’d tried out ukubillion mattresses at the store and I thought we’d chosen the right one… sheesh!). So then we added a featherbed to the memory foam. Getting into it felt really good, but my back suffered. Continue reading →

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Stalking and Socking

Posted on November 12, 2013 by Mokihana

We laugh about how she “stalked” me on Ravelry, a wonderful knitting, crocheting, and handspinning community. I would have done the same thing. See, on the Portland message board, a wahine named Nancy had just moved to Damascus with her husband. So I posted a message saying that I’m in Damascus, welcome to the area, etc. Everything that anyone posts on one of the public Ravelry forums can be seen by everyone, so Nancy checked my posts to find out wat kine wahine I am. Cuz u neva know, right? I could have been more weird than I am, or always hūhū, or a troublemaker. It happens. Continue reading →

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I Am A Blessed Wahine

Posted on October 26, 2013 by Mokihana

I am a blessed wahine. When I got together with my friend Nancy today for our knitting time, she ‘way surprised me by telling me that she was knitting a pair of socks for me. For me. I could hardly believe it and started to cry. I was so overwhelmed and touched at her generosity. She had me put one on so that she could see where to start the toe decreases. Continue reading →

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