The Legend of Dragon Pearl

I got sidetracked this morning by a Chinese martial arts fantasy series called The Legend of Dragon Pearl. It kinda reminds me of the wuxia film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. I can't remember what I was looking for when I stumbled across it & got hooked. I then spent time looking for the beginning of the series, its title in English, & whether I could find complete 30-minute episodes (with English subtitles) rather than bits & pieces on You Tube. I did! It will be my next series when I am done watching Lucifer.

Today is a Feast Day so I used half an avocado in my proothie instead of lau ʻuala. This is one half of one of the avocados from Kohala that Jennifer & Trudy picked at the church.

Kinda looks like it might be a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle!

Keala got out of the cat run early this morning. The Potential Most Favorite Roommate heard her meowing outside as he was preparing their food; he could not understand why she was not right underfoot. He closed the sliding glass door to keep her in when they had to leave to run errands this morning. When I came out to make my proothie I noticed the towel on my chair had been balled up; it was damp. She peed on it, probably because she was annoyed that she could not go out in the cat run. Auē! When he got home, The Potential Most Favorite Roommate opened the sliding & screen doors & Keala bolted in to the cat run. He watched her & saw her climbing up to a point where the netting comes down to the top of the wall; he found a place where the staples holding the netting have rusted away. He stapled it shut again so the cats could go out in to the cat run again.

Hawaiʻi Island has 4 active volcanoes, most people live on one of them. The Hawaiʻi Volcano Observatory uses past lava flow location & frequency to determine where future flows might occur.  

Our house is in Zone 9; on the slopes of the extinct Kohala volcano

The Aix weather app forecast rain in Honolulu until mid-afternoon then partly cloudy skies until the evening when it would start raining again. Aix was correct for the very early morning but after that it was mainly wrong; it was partly cloudy. For Kapaʻau it forecast a similar pattern but much larger amounts of precipitation. The local paper forecast scattered showers with only a 50% chance of rain; in Honomū there was 0.23 inches accumulated by 6:36 a.m. but no more later. For Marysville Aix forecast even more rain throughout the day along with lightning! That wasn't happening in the morning.

Kaimukī looking northerly at 3:27 a.m. The rain woke me up.

Kaimukī looking westerly at 6:36 a.m.

Honomū looking northerly at 6:36 a.m. Pavement is wet.

Marysville looking northerly at 6:40 a.m. HST.

Kaimukī looking southeasterly at 7:18 a.m. This was what most of the morning looked like.

The surf on the south shores is slightly smaller than usual. Surf on the east shorelines will be choppy due to wind action.

Chun's Reef (N) at 6:46 a.m.

Hilo Bay (E) at 6:47 a.m.

Waikīkī (S) at 6:48 a.m.

Waikoloa (W) at 6:49 a.m.

There were 569 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the total known cases up to 75,006. There were also 8 new deaths reported, increasing the number of fatalities to 702; currently there are 7982 cases considered active. The 7-day new case average for Oʻahu is 367 with a positivity rate of 7.1%.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Aurolyn!