The Trailer

Nearly every morning I clean out Moʻo's water bowl under the jaboticaba tree & refill it. While that is refilling, I check on the kalo & refill that pan with water if needed. This morning while doing those tasks,  I got a better look at the trailer in its new home. I'm glad Jeremiah painted it a muted green color so it more easily blends in with the surrounding landscape.

It blocks the view of neighbors on the other side of Jeremiah.

I also checked out the ʻumiʻumi ʻo Dole. I was concerned they had not survived the hot, sunny days when I was gone since they did not get any water. But they seem to be doing okay. At least the ones along the easterly fence look okay.

The hint of green in the gray means its still alive.

While checking on the ʻumiʻumi ʻo Dole, I found a really cool looking lichen. I have no idea which one it is; I have never really been into identifying lichens.

Today is Friday, so I was at Lapakahi State Historical Park this morning. I met a bunch of interesting people this morning. The 1st was Brooks, he was there when I arrived; he had spent time down by the ocean meditating & was interested in the history of Lapakahi. The others were Penny & Rich who are from Wisconsin; they are familiar with Springstead Lake & Park Falls where Kai goes to spend time with his father's family. 

On my way home, I stopped at Our Founding Farmers for ice cream; sort of my usual Friday-on-the-way-home-from-Lapakahi routine. But Mark was all by himself & very busy serving about a dozen people so I went to pick up lunch at the Thai food truck next door until things cleared up. This time I tried the Thai-style Ceviche & mango sticky rice dessert. I forgot to take photos of them when I ate them.

The food truck is right across the street from K. O. Pizza.

When I returned to Our Founding Farmers, the crowd had thinned out. While I was eating my ice cream, Penny & Rich whom I had met earlier at Lapakahi came in! Shortly after that Earl also came in; I met him at Lapakahi about a year ago & have run in to him several times since then. Earl is a photographer based out of Waikoloa; when I have unpacked more boxes & sorted out what to hang on the walls I would like to buy one of Earl's photos of the current eruption of Kīlauea. 

This is the one I want; Ohia Flow, from Episode 18. (From Earlbetts.com)

 

At 5:42 pm I received an alert message, but it was just letting me know there was no tsunami threat. There had been another large earthquake in the vicinity of the one in late July that did cause a tsunami that reached Hawaiʻi. This earthquake was smaller & apparently did not have the same effect on the undersea topography that the other one had; so no tsunami.

This is the alert I received.

This is what I found on the U. S Tsunami Warning System website. 

This is the written information provided by the website.

The window for the anticipated start of the next eruptive episode of Kīlauea has been broadened to be from the 19th through the 23rd. But apparently inflation is decreasing & if it continues to decrease the start could begin even later. 

Hauʻoli lā Hānau e Kathleen!