BrightTree Financial

Curtis & I went to see Harold from BrightTree Financial to close out Dad's investments that Harold has been investing for him. Since both accounts are in Trusts they can be more easily disbursed to the beneficiaries without accruing much of a tax burden. For the ones that Vaughn is holding only 2 out of the 6 could be placed in Trusts so when the other 4 are disbursed there will be some tax liability.

Between the building that Harold is in and the street are several large monkeypod trees; many of them have Manu-o-Kū nesting in then. When we were driving around in the parking garage I saw one family group flying around; by the time we parked the parents had left and the fledgling was just sitting in the tree waiting again.

I made a kale proothie this morning. I used the kale from the previous CSA box. It actually did not taste like kale like when you eat it in a salad; it was much better! It was probably the cacao powder I add to my proothie.

After I got back from Harold's, I spent more time clearing things out of my laptop; I now have 7.95 GB storage; still not enough for me to update the operating system.

Before.

After, still not enough to do the OS update.

It rained today. A lot! In fact, for most of the day most of the state was under a flash flood watch. On the evening news they said one of the nearby rain gauges showed we got almost 5 inches in our neighborhood!

Rain starts up here at 12:23 pm.

Starting to rain harder about half an hour later at 1:09 pm.

A little more than half hour later, at 1:50 pm, it starts raining even harder.

Less than 10 minutes later, at 1:56 pm, it got even heavier!

About 90 minutes later, at 3:25 pm, it started to slow down.

But about half an hour later, at 4:05 pm, it started to get heavier again.

It continued raining until it got dark.

I also made soymilk this afternoon but didn't take any photos. But I did watch Ask a Mortician for the couple hours that I was busy with the soymilk and okara. There were 2  that I found  bery enjoyable today. One was Death & Minimalism; although there is a lot of longevity in my family I think I need to start decluttering now.

The other was What Should Museums Do With Their Dead? Caitlin & Emily Graslie from the Field Museum discuss what to do with human remains that are in museum collections. Much of what Caitlin does is with more recently deceased people, so they or their next of kin have consented to what is being done with their corpses. But that is not usually the case with remains in museums; it was a very thought provoking conversation.

The Aix weather app forecast said the rain would begin in the morning but it was only cloudy until just after noon. It also forecast that the rain would continue through the night but it stopped around 6pm. The Aix app showed a whole lot more rain throughout the day in Kapaʻau. The Tesla app showed very low insolation; so low, in fact, that it took almost all day for the battery to be completely recharged.

It took until about 3 pm to recharge the Tesla battery.

At Kīlauea caldera there was a lot of steam from the precipitation hitting the hot surfaces. The video has a lot of information about what has been happening over the last month or so.

There was a Magnitude 5 earthquake southwest of Alaska around lunch today. No tsunami was generated.

The L452R variant of SARS-CoV-2 has been found here in 2 cases; it was 1st found in Denmark last March and has been found in more than a dozen other states. It is not known whether it is more contagious or more virulent than the original virus but it has been linked to more outbreaks in California. The 2 cases here were found on different islands and are not related to each other. The B117 variant originally found in the UK, the B1351 variant originally found in South Africa, and the P1 variant originally found in Brazil, are all known to be more contagious; so far they have not been found here.

There were 123 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, ringing the total known cases up to 25,275. After a review of records, the Department of Health has added 60 new deaths due to COVID-19 bringing the statewide death toll up to 402; these occurred between August and December. There are currently 1664 cases that are currently considered to be active. The 7-day average of new cases on Oʻahu is 79 with a  positivity rate of 3.0%.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Donna!