June 15, 2024
Welcome to Adventure Blog #67
After a great 65th Punahou High School reunion weekend and a busy time on Oahu I am back home trying to get out of the past and moving back into the future. The reunion was great meeting old friends and some of whom I had not seen in many years. Quite a few did not show up and made me wonder whatever happened to them. My bestie, Mahealani came from Las Vegas and it was wonderful to reunite. Her parents had a house at the opposite side of Makaha Beach so we spent many fun times out there between our camp site and her house. During High school she was always up for any wild adventure I could dream up, so there is a special place in my heart for her. She says she will come and visit here in Hana which I am looking forward to. She is pictured here with one of my favorite men , Dick Ednie from the big island. It was wonderful reconnecting with everyone. Sheila, my match maker with Bob, came from NY and we had some nice times together both at the gatherings and driving. And, always great seeing and visiting with Denby Fawcett who is an excellent writer now writing for Civil Beat.
I miss all of them now, but Oahu is so congested with people and traffic I am glad to be home in the country. This was a scene from the Saturday night luau where all the reunion classes gather. Pretty mind boggling with so many people under one tent. The luau food was better than past years and the music was loud, but good. We were the last to leave.
The Pacific Art Fest was also going on and the coconut convention was happening within that time period. In-between reunion activities I stopped by Pau Hana where Niu Now was stationed with Pacific visitors weaving and exchanging information on coconuts. Pictured here is the world’s authority on coconuts Dr. Roland Bourdiux. He and Indrijit Gunasakara are coming here on Tuesday for a few days. There was a full on coconut summit June 12 and 13 which I sadly had to miss due to a lack of animal care. A segment from the new movie Niu Forever was previewed. You can probably see it if you google Niu Forever. If not let me know and I can send it to you.
The weather conditions here during the past two weeks have made the grass go crazy so there has been a lot of mowing and weed eating to deal with. I have a lot of planting and am hoping to start that today.
My friend Maleka from the post office came for a visit with her son and daughter. The lychee tree is going off so we picked lychee and guavas and she took bags of each home. Yesterday when I went to the PO Maleka said she had something for me and it was a big bag of one of my favorite flowers-gardenias. So special as I have never had so many.
Chris, par excellence weed eater man, came and improved the view down into Wailua Cove. There is still more to do, but it is a dangerous job with the fifty foot drop off to the road.
Thanks for tuning in and I leave you with a picture of my water garden with flowers that just bloomed.
Aloha Nui Loa,
Vicky
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