CM Chicken

For lunch today I had CM Chicken with coleslaw & French fries; we ate at Anne & Mike's house since CM Chicken is take-out only. Specifically, we had Soy Chicken Tenders with coleslaw & French fries. The chicken was a nice level of spicy!

After lunch I joined Anne having "tea with biscuits". I tried the tea Irish-style with milk; Anne is from Northern Ireland. The "biscuits" were German cookies gifted to her by a friend who is from Germany. The milk in the black tea mellowed the tannins; the biscuits went well with the tea.

Anne & I  were both doing water quality sampling with the Safe Drinking Water Branch this morning. I was on Team 1 with Lauren & Jeri; Anne was on Team 3 with Glenn & Natasha. Team 1 went to the Red Hill Mauka Coast Guard housing. The 1st two houses we went to were a few houses apart. We also found the 3rd house easily; but we could not find the last house. We ended up going to the house closest to the address we were given.

At one of the houses, the woman said they had not been smelling any odd smells or having reactions to the water, but neighbors all around them had. She was wondering why that would be happening. Lauren told her with a volatile contaminant like petroleum products that do not dissolve in water, uneven settling of the water pipes could cause the contaminant to be concentrated in different areas, thus causing uneven occurrence in the water system. I learned something new today!

Speaking of the water problem, it appears the Navy has lost the confidence of the community. Every day there is a new question that is posed in the daily paper; today the informal poll was about the contamination of the water. In this unscientific poll, a little over 77% of the respondents said they had low confidence in the Navy; we're kinda hearing the same thing from the people we talk to while out doing the water sampling.

As we were returning from our sampling I asked Jeri, who was driving, if she could slow down for me near a sign I had noticed when I drove in this morning. It was about the speed bumps on the road up to the lab. I have never been on such a long section of road with speed bumps; it's about 2/3 mile long.

Up in the microbiology lab, they had an unlikely pin-up. A common dog tick.

Driving back from Anne & Mike's after lunch, there was a rainbow due to the rain & the sun being out at the same time; there was a very fine misting drizzle.

For dinner, The Potential Most Favorite Roommate was making fried chicken. We added the lunch leftovers that Anne & Mike had given me to the meal.

Clockwise from top: coleslaw, French fries, steamed frozen mixed veggies, CM Soy Chicken, & fried chicken.

Kīlauea is still erupting. And lava is now flowing around the northerly side of the cooled portion of the lava lake. It also looks like there are some smal hot spots around the edge of the cooled portion of the lava lake.

For a brief moment it looked like there would be snow on Mauna Kea again.

No new snow overnight.

Is it snow?

Nope, it was just fog.

Not sure what that light spot is on the driveway.

The Aix weather app forecast rain until mid-afternoon for Honolulu, then rain again later in the evening. There was rain in the morning but it turned into scattered showers about midmorning; there was some drizzle late in the evening. For Kapaʻau, Aix forecast rain all day; Big Island Now forecast mostly cloudy with scattered showers & a 20% chance of rain. For Marysville, Aix forecast partly cloudy for most of the day. Since I did not get screen shots from traffic cams, I have no idea what happened today.

Kaimukī looking northerly at 7:33 a.m.

Nā Koʻolau at 7:36 a.m.

Pearl City looking southerly at 7:59 a.m.

The north facing shores had the best surf today.

Laniakea (N) at 6:58 a.m.

Hilo Bay (E) at 7:00 a.m.

Waikīkī (S) at 6:57 a.m.

Banyans (W) at 7:02 a.m.

There are 972 new cases of COVID-19 reported today, bringing the total known cases up to 92,746. There were also 2 new deaths reported increasing the death toll to 1072; currently there are 4237 cases considered active. The 7-day new case average for the State is 473 with a positivity rate of 6.2%. The 7-day new case average for Oʻahu is 421 with a positivity rate of 7.9%.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Santiago!