Thatʻs a Lot of Pigs!

I stopped by at Toto's to return the 24-egg carton that he had given me eggs in. He had been wondering if I left already because he did not see the car at the house; I told him I had been parking in the garage so it is not visible. I also told him next time when I ask for a dozen eggs he should only give me a dozen eggs; that way when I run out I would come visit him for more eggs! Toto, who has got to be in his 80's, still hunts wild pigs; he's been hunting them since the 8th grade. He keeps the lower jaws with the tusks in them and he has a lot of them! I took a photo of him on his lanai; you can see one wall of tusks but there are 2 other walls plus the other side of the wall he is standing next to that are also full of tusks. By the way, Toto used to work for the sugar mill; he knew both Uncle Kazu & my grandfather.


Not many pictures today since it was mainly spent cleaning up & closing up the house. And running the last minute errands as I leave. Besides going to Toto's, I also had to go to the post office to clear out my mail box and do a dump run. I was pleasantly surprised to find no one at the transfer station; I took some photos of the various signs.

Oh, no! I told Kamaka they took greenwaste here! I wonder where they dumped my stuff they took.

One of the other last minute errands was going to Kona, to the Hina Lani & Olowalu intersection to get some lychee for Lori & Jenny. They love lychee! Kaloa told me all the trees in Hilo were red with lychee! Kelly wasn't there today but another woman was; so I got them from her instead. I think there must be a bunch of them that take turns selling at that intersection because the set up and signage was the same.

When I got to Alamo, it was pretty slow & sleepy; not many other people dropping off cars. Corey was the shuttle driver again; she was the one that picked me up the last time I dropped off my rental car in April. Things are slow for them with Hawaiian flying only 5 flights a day; there are not many other airlines flying.

When I started checking in, I had the exemption email from DOD loaded on my phone, but no one seemed to be interested in it. The Hawaiian Airlines folks said to show it to the folks in the TSA line. The 1st guy at that line had me fill out the travel declaration form, the one I looked for to fill online to make going through faster. Although I had filled one out previously online, now the only thing I could find were pdf's, which are non-fillable online. He did not know why I could not find a fillable one. None of them really wanted to see the DOD email but they did want me to tell them when I would be coming back; they wouldn't take "I don't know" for an answer and said put in 30 days. Then one guy had me write on my form that I had the DOD email (even though he didn't care that I had it and didn't want to read it).

The National Guard guys only wanted to take my temperature; apparently it was normal because they didn't stop me. And the TSA wasn't interested in the DOD email either. May be its different if you are flying from Honolulu to other islands. Everyone had enough time to read the DOD email and ask a bunch of questions because there weren't very many people there. But no one read the DOD email.


It only took 20 minutes from the time I checked in to the Hawaiian Airlines kiosk until I was out of TSA. I had a lot of time to waste; almost 3 hours before my flight would start boarding. So I decided to eat lunch at the airport and went to the small restaurant there. Once again I had to ask Lisa to help me get a coconut water off the top shelf; she also took my order for a garden burger. And onion rings. I decided to treat myself to onion rings.


After Lisa brought my order to the outside tables, all 6 or more feet apart; the House Sparrows started congregating. Some people say the dinosaurs are still with us in the form of birds. I say it is a really sad sight to see the modern day mini-dinosaurs begging for food!

The House Sparrows have intimidated the Common Mynas.

While waiting for my flight I saw a Delta flight arrive; there were maybe a couple dozen people on it. They all had to have their paperwork individually checked; there was an airport security person standing at the exit watching people. At Gate 9, in the beginning, there were about a dozen people waiting for the same flight as me; closer to the flight the waiting area began to fill up. The plane was about half full. A Southwest plane taxied up to the other gate as we were leaving our gate.

Usually United is also here.

One of the planes temporarily parked off the side of the taxiway.

Judging by the passengers, I think the flight I was on was the one that the construction folks take at the end of the day. Probably 2/3 of the passengers were young, muscular guys. Then at the baggage claim about 2/3 of the baggage was hard plastic toolboxes.

Today there were 7 new cases of COVID-19 reported bringing the total known cases to 692. The number of deaths remains the same but the number of people requiring hospitalization has increased to 88.  The number of people who have been released from isolation has dropped to 90%.

Cases reported in the past 28 days.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Jeannette!