Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Curtis!

Lori scheduled Curtis' birthday dinner for this evening since the boys were working on the day of his real birthday on Wednesday. The Boys grilled steaks & chicken; there was also salad, shrimp tempura, & desserts, including a Steelers themed birthday cake!

Social Security card carrying member!

One of the presents for Curtis was a bag of matchbooks from the huge box that Laurel & Bill brought over to the house. I brought back a quart sized bag to see if there was anything Curtis was interested in. He said out of that bag he had maybe only 3 or 4 of them already; Uncle Kazu had a lot of stuff way older than he has in his collection. 

Do you recognize any of these establishments?

It's a Feast Day! This morning I made an avocado proothie with half of one of the avocados I brought back with me. I froze the other half for a future Feast Day.

That's a pretty big seed.

Even with only half an avocado the proothie gets really thick.

The other half ready for the freezer.

Today was one of Eleta's Mini-Kwanzaa's; I decided to call in so I could see how well my new noise cancelling headphones worked. Eleta & Leona were on the previous call where I discovered where the microphone for my laptop is located. Today we were joined by Del & Reneschia. For the record, it was much better than before! Today's focus was on International Day of the Worlds Indigenous People and the upcoming UN International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032. Now I have a goal: be fluent in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi by the end of 2032.

Just after I got off of the Kwanzaa Zoom, I heard a commotion in the cat run. It was the alarm calls of Common Waxbills; it sounded like a few may have been inside the cat run when one of the cats appeared. Fortunately for them, the little waxbills are small enough they were able to escape by flying through the gap between the gate wall & the house. The much larger Red-vented Bulbuls have to fly through the chainlink fence openings to get out, just like they got in; they are more at risk for being caught by the cats since they only have one way out & it is more accessible to the cats.

There has been a young dog running around Curtis & Lori's neighborhood for a few days now; it had been too frightened to come too close to anyone. On Saturday evening, just before dinner the dog showed up again; Jenny had cooked up some chicken for it. Anita was there & started throwing bits of chicken over the fence, trying to lure it in to Curtis & Lori's yard. Anita ended up leaving the remaining bowl of food up on the retaining wall which was as close as the dog would come.

Anita walks to the back yard.

The dog watches us from the top of the retaining wall.

Anita lures the dog in with food.

Anita talks to the dog.

Anita tries to get the dog to walk up the slope & some to her on the retaining wall.

Today is Day 7 since the maiʻa was harvested. It is ripening nicely. Maybe one more day.

The Aix weather app forecast rain through mid-afternoon in Honolulu followed by a few hours of partly cloudy skies before a night-time drizzle. The morning rain was just light spriknles but everything else was accurate. In Kapa'au, instead of rain all day as predicted by Aix, there were only partly cloudy skies. In Marysville, the partly cloudy skies forecast by Aix appeared more like mainly sunny skies.

Honolulu looking westerly at 7:53 a.m.

Honomū looking northerly at 7:53 a.m.

Marysville looking southerly at 7:53 a.m. HST.

Nā Koʻolau at 5:27 p.m.

There is some small surf along the south facing shores today.

Sunset Beach (N) at 10:23 a.m.

Waikīkī (S) at 7:56 a.m.

The earthquake activity south of Kīlauea has continued. Scientists say the activity has diminished over yesterday but is still occurred at a rate of up to 7 per hour. The earthquakes are mostly less than magnitude 2 and are o.6 to 2.5 miles below the surface. They say it appears to indicate an intrusive event & does not indicate an imminent eruption.

 

There were 938 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the total known cases up to 60,551. There were also 5 new deaths reported raising the death toll to 587; currently there are 9,937 cases considered active. The 7-day new case average for Oʻahu is 500 with a positivity rate of 9.2%. 

Hauʻoli lā Hoʻomanaʻo makahiki iwakālua kumamāwalu e Sili & Taliga!