Visitors from WA!

Yesterday I was checking Facebook, & saw that my friend Nawo posted about his daughters being in Kona. So I messaged him on FB. This afternoon he got back to me; we met later for a brief tour of the yard & sampling of fruit fresh off the trees! Then Nawo, Heidi, Carmel, Eva, & I went to dinner at King's View Cafe; we closed the place down.

L to R: Carmel, Eva, Heidi, & Nawo.

I got Nawo in touch with Elaine, a Baha'i woman that I met back in April; she lives in Hāwī. Hopefully they can meet in person in a few days; she is currently on Oʻahu but will be back tomorrow evening. I looked up the Hawaiʻi Baha'i's website this evening & was pleasantly surprised to find that their site is bilingual with Hawaiian translations of their prayers. There was even a video of a group singing one of the prayers in ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi. I think I will be spending more time on their website practicing Hawaiian.

I think itʻs really cool that they list the ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi 1st.

I could understand about 1/2 of this because of repeated phrase.

I got this from Facebook. I have "joined" a couple ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi sites on FB so sometimes cool things like this pop up.

I understood about 75% of this because they're just words not sentences.

Watched this wonderful video called Lahaina Before the Fire. Its made by a local videographer as a tribute to Lāhainā & a hope to encourage rebuilding what was lost. Having never, ever been to Lāhainā, I found it to be a great summary of what I will never be able to see.

That bit of weather south of Mexico became Tropical Depression Eleven-E this morning; which means it is the 11th one of the season. By the end of the day its sustained wind speed increased enough it is now Tropical Storm Jova. It is forecast to develop in to a hurricane later in the week. The good news for Hawai'i is that the forecast is for it to move northwesterly along the coast rather than continuing westerly towards us.

In the meanwhile, weather here has been very pleasant. Not too hot, not too cold, very little rain. And the precipitation that we have is usually in the very early morning hours before I get out of bed.

I am going to try to keep up with doing at least one Wordle a day. I apparently have done 19 so far. I try to do 15 minutes a day; which means sometimes I am working on puzzles from previous days. So may be its a good thing I have not been doing it long or daily consistently. One thing I am noticing, however, is that there are some real words that it will not accept as real words. I guess it must have a limited "dictionary" of words to choose from. I have noticed that with a lot of other word games that I play; they don't seem to like scientific words.

I've been checking the time statistics for the Roomba; they seem to be getting better. By that I mean that they seem to more accurately reflect the amount of time I hear the Roomba actually cleaning. These statistics for the bathroom are a good example. Except for the "dirt events", I would think there were at least 2 based on the map image. Or perhaps everything "looked" the same to it so it "thought" there was no "dirt event".

I prepped 3 more packages for shipping via Pirateship.com. I can still use the USPS priority mail packages but pay $1.75 less for each than if I took it to the post office to have them print & affix the labels. I don't mind doing my own printing & labeling if I can save money! And since I reuse paper that is printed on one side & rubber cement, I do not pay for more expensive pre-made self-sticking labels. The post office does not have a problem with my home-made labels.

I also saw this on FB. I might be making one for Halloween ... along with the screaming snails & devil chicks.

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Michael & Jeremiah! A me ka Hauʻoli lā Hoʻomanaʻo makahiki ʻumi kumamāwalu e Karin & Thomas!