Walking Our Block

On the Neighborhood Security Watch walk this morning, we walked past our house. Along the way I told them about the neighbors whom I knew that lived nearby. We met several other people along other portions of our walk; Dwayne & Ron invited them to join the group in 2 weeks when we will be doing another walk with the 2 police officers. We covered 1.38 miles today.

After I returned home I saw a text & an email from Marjorie; she is gearing up for December MRC requests. In fact, she put out feelers for 8 tentative events over the next 2 weeks; it looks like they are nā kūpuna booster clinics. 

When I walked in to the living room this morning, it looked like a cat had died on the couch.

That does not look comfortable to me.

For lunch I made a sandwich with some of the Take-and-Bake bread The Roommates baked last night & the salmon spread I made the night before. I have been using tuna (or salmon) spread on a couple of Parm Crisps as a low carb, high protein after dinner snack to keep me full through the evening.

I got a text & an email from Ken. He is finished with the prior jobs that he had & is now going to start working on my cabinetry projects. He will be taking more measurements on Friday, then building a sample kitchen drawer to figure out how much time & money it will be for each drawer.

Then I got a call from Heidi. I will be transporting 3 birds for a morning flight. They actually have 4 birds needing to be sent to Hawaiʻi Island, but Hawaiian Air Cargo only had room for 3 on flights that are early enough for them.

For dinner The Potential Most Favorite Roommate made pork chops in cream of mushroom soup; I contributed a pound of air fryer Brussels sprouts. It was a tasty collaboration! 

It must have been a big pig!

In the morning, the thermal image of the Kīlauea eruption showed what appeared to me to be another vent somewhat northerly of the vent that has continued to flow. This evening I noticed that the thermal image showed that the lava had flowed along the northerly edge of the caldera floor for quite a distance.

At 7:40 a.m.

At 4:58 p.m.

At 7:41 a.m.

At 4:58 p.m.

The Aix weather app forecast partly cloudy skies for Honolulu throughout the day; it was mainly correct except for the short drizzle at mid-morning. For Kapaʻau, Aix forecast drizzles throughout the day becoming rain after dark; Big Island Now forecast partly sunny with isolated showers & a 20% chance of rain. The Honomū weather station was dry in the earlier parts of the day but at 8:32 p.m. it had recorded 0.05 inches of precipitation. For Marysville, Aix forecast rain all day. The traffic cam showed dry pavement during the daylight hours, but after dark it looked like there had been some precipitation.

Kaimukī looking westerly at 7:31 a.m.

Honomū looking northerly at 7:32 a.m.

Marysville looking southerly at 7:36 a.m. HST.

Canada-France-Hawaiʻi Telescope looking northwesterly at 7:51 a.m. at nearly cloudless Kohala Mountain.

Kaimukī looking easterly at 10:52 a.m. at light drizzle.

Kaimukī looking westerly at 1:12 p.m.

Honomū looking northerly at 4:56 p.m.

Marysville at 4:58 p.m. HST.

The north facing shores had the best surf today; most everywhere else was fairly flat. Sometime today the Laniakea surf cam was repositioned; there is now a tree trunk in the middle of the view. Hilo Bay in the evening looked like there was a light mist coming down.

Laniakea (N) at 7:37 a.m.

Hilo Bay (E) at 7:38 a.m.

Waikīkī (S) at 7:39 a.m.

Banyans (W) at 7:40 a.m.

Laniakea (N) at 4:53 p.m.

Hilo Bay (E) at 4:52 p.m.

Waikīkī (S) at 4:54 p.m.

Banyans (W) at 4:53 p.m.

There were 92 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the total known cases up to 86,939. There were no new deaths reported so the death toll remains at 1002; currently there are 1524 cases considered active. As of today, 2,320,572 doses of vaccine have been administered, providing 72.4% of the State with full vaccination & 85% with at least one dose. There are 53 cases that are currently hospitalized with 9 in the ICU & 8 on ventilators. The 7-day new case average for the State is 113 with a positivity rate of 1.5%. The7-day new case average for Oʻahu is 65 with a positivity rate of 1.5%.