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Friday, February 13, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Barack Ohana lives in a Yellow Submarine
Hello again! i know i KNOW i don't update this thing very often. It's a somewhat time intensive process and frankly, I'm lazy. So anyway here's some more pictures and tidbits about my life here.
So there's a boat that you can always see out in the water that i think looks just like the freaking Yellow Submarine from the beatles cartoon movie. Don't you think??
I thought the island of Lanai'i looked pretty cool this day with the clouds and water being so calm.
Another shot of Lanai'i being eaten by clouds.
Ok so I'm not very domestic. Big shocker, I know. But the only way to eat on a budget here is to buy what's on sale. So by virtue of being limited to the foods that are on sale, I've been forced to cook things I'd never tried cooking before. Last week Potroast beef was on sale. So i made a potroast! I'm very proud of myself and i think it came out really well.
I started out by taking the big giant hunk of meat and stabbing it like 15 times with my knife. I then took minced garlic and shoved it in the stabby spot in the meat and did a dry rub with some spices we had in our pantry. I seared it for 3 minutes on each side and then simmered it with a can of tomato sauce, an onion and a bunch more spices for like 3 hours on the stove.
Asparagus was also on sale so i cooked those and then made some spaghetti to go with the leftover potroast/onion tomato sauce in the pot. It looked like this.... it was AMAZING
Ok so little bit of trivia. When you're laying all quiet like on the beach under a palm tree and the dry palm leaves rattle together in the wind... it sounds just like rain.
I was down on waihikuli beach with liz and i found these two things about 10 feet from each other. One is a piece of volcanic rock, the other a piece of coral.
I thought the sizes were just perfect and the volcanic rock made a perfect base to sit the corral on. This now sits on my dresser :) I still need to get some super glue or something to really attach it to the base.
Up at the end of Kaanapali Beach is this big rock called Black Rock. It's about 20 or 30ft above the water and you can climb up there from the water. Liz and i jumped off this rock. Apparently i've formed a fear of climbing somewhere along the way and i about had a heart attack. But i did it and i jumped off and then when we got back to the beach i took these pictures.
Our neighborhood is patterened pretty much like any other neighborhood, in a big grid. We live at the top of the grid on the very last street up the mountain. From my street this is a picture all the way down to the ocean. The gradation of the incline on this side isnt super intense but it's such a long way at a solid incline that biking up this hill is virtually impossible. I will be forthcoming soon with another picture of the hill coming in from the other side. That hill is, in fact, intense. Be rest assured, though, that either way you come to get to my house you better be prepared to sweat it if you're not in a car.
The moon looked cool the other night through the clouds and i wondered if i could get a good shot with my camera. Not bad, but this picture doesnt do it justice.
So i bought my first t-shirt in hawaii. It says Barack on the front.
and Ohana (hawaiian for Family) on the back with an outline of the islands... it's political AND hawaiian!!! Everyone here loves President Obama. He's from here, he supports social programs, he recognizes hawaii as a contributor to the U.S. economy. The only obama haters here are republicans on vacation... and frankly... i could care less what they say because they get to go home to Wisconsin or South Dakota or whatever freezing tundra they came from and I enjoy my tropical obama loving paradise.
Anyway i'll try to be more fastidious about updating the blog in the future. I'm not making any promises though :)
So there's a boat that you can always see out in the water that i think looks just like the freaking Yellow Submarine from the beatles cartoon movie. Don't you think??
I thought the island of Lanai'i looked pretty cool this day with the clouds and water being so calm.
Another shot of Lanai'i being eaten by clouds.
Ok so I'm not very domestic. Big shocker, I know. But the only way to eat on a budget here is to buy what's on sale. So by virtue of being limited to the foods that are on sale, I've been forced to cook things I'd never tried cooking before. Last week Potroast beef was on sale. So i made a potroast! I'm very proud of myself and i think it came out really well.
I started out by taking the big giant hunk of meat and stabbing it like 15 times with my knife. I then took minced garlic and shoved it in the stabby spot in the meat and did a dry rub with some spices we had in our pantry. I seared it for 3 minutes on each side and then simmered it with a can of tomato sauce, an onion and a bunch more spices for like 3 hours on the stove.
Asparagus was also on sale so i cooked those and then made some spaghetti to go with the leftover potroast/onion tomato sauce in the pot. It looked like this.... it was AMAZING
Ok so little bit of trivia. When you're laying all quiet like on the beach under a palm tree and the dry palm leaves rattle together in the wind... it sounds just like rain.
I was down on waihikuli beach with liz and i found these two things about 10 feet from each other. One is a piece of volcanic rock, the other a piece of coral.
I thought the sizes were just perfect and the volcanic rock made a perfect base to sit the corral on. This now sits on my dresser :) I still need to get some super glue or something to really attach it to the base.
Up at the end of Kaanapali Beach is this big rock called Black Rock. It's about 20 or 30ft above the water and you can climb up there from the water. Liz and i jumped off this rock. Apparently i've formed a fear of climbing somewhere along the way and i about had a heart attack. But i did it and i jumped off and then when we got back to the beach i took these pictures.
Our neighborhood is patterened pretty much like any other neighborhood, in a big grid. We live at the top of the grid on the very last street up the mountain. From my street this is a picture all the way down to the ocean. The gradation of the incline on this side isnt super intense but it's such a long way at a solid incline that biking up this hill is virtually impossible. I will be forthcoming soon with another picture of the hill coming in from the other side. That hill is, in fact, intense. Be rest assured, though, that either way you come to get to my house you better be prepared to sweat it if you're not in a car.
The moon looked cool the other night through the clouds and i wondered if i could get a good shot with my camera. Not bad, but this picture doesnt do it justice.
So i bought my first t-shirt in hawaii. It says Barack on the front.
and Ohana (hawaiian for Family) on the back with an outline of the islands... it's political AND hawaiian!!! Everyone here loves President Obama. He's from here, he supports social programs, he recognizes hawaii as a contributor to the U.S. economy. The only obama haters here are republicans on vacation... and frankly... i could care less what they say because they get to go home to Wisconsin or South Dakota or whatever freezing tundra they came from and I enjoy my tropical obama loving paradise.
Anyway i'll try to be more fastidious about updating the blog in the future. I'm not making any promises though :)
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
More pictures!!
Aloha! I have more pictures, AS PROMISED. These are a hodgepodge of things that i took pictures of over the last week.
Ok at baby beach (a beach known only really to the locals because you have to go through this neighborhood and down an alley to get to it) the water is really shallow. It doesn't get any deeper than about 2 or 3 feet because it's surrounded by a rock reef. You can see in the picture below the rock reef surrounding it and some rocks sticking out of the water.
There was also this giant cruise ship docked a ways out and they were ferrying people to shore.
As i was laying there i kept hearing all this chatter from birds and i got curious. One of the houses on the beach had this big bird feeder and it was covered in these birds i had never seen before.
On a separate occasion i was riding my bike back from Kaanapali (the resort town to the north) and i stopped at Waihikuli Beach park (the beach park just down the street from my house) to rest a second before i had to hike my bike back up the hill to the house. I thought it was really pretty so i took a picture.
Also, per request, here are some pictures of the shop i work at. Jam's World/Surfline.
And this is probably going to be a repeat segment i call "ugliest shirt of the day". The title is a misnomer because there's no way i'll update this thing every day. But today's ugly shirt is definitely a Doosey.
Liz and i live at the top of the hill. If we walk past the houses on the other side of the street this is what you see. Unabridge view of amazing hawaiian mountains.
I told Elizabeth there were easter eggs out there so she went looking. Truth is Elizabeth IS the easter egg.
Last night at work i got REALLY bored so i took a some business cards and made this. I think it's quite impressive.
Ok well i think that's all the pictures i have for the moment. Catch ya on the flip side.
Ok at baby beach (a beach known only really to the locals because you have to go through this neighborhood and down an alley to get to it) the water is really shallow. It doesn't get any deeper than about 2 or 3 feet because it's surrounded by a rock reef. You can see in the picture below the rock reef surrounding it and some rocks sticking out of the water.
There was also this giant cruise ship docked a ways out and they were ferrying people to shore.
As i was laying there i kept hearing all this chatter from birds and i got curious. One of the houses on the beach had this big bird feeder and it was covered in these birds i had never seen before.
On a separate occasion i was riding my bike back from Kaanapali (the resort town to the north) and i stopped at Waihikuli Beach park (the beach park just down the street from my house) to rest a second before i had to hike my bike back up the hill to the house. I thought it was really pretty so i took a picture.
Also, per request, here are some pictures of the shop i work at. Jam's World/Surfline.
And this is probably going to be a repeat segment i call "ugliest shirt of the day". The title is a misnomer because there's no way i'll update this thing every day. But today's ugly shirt is definitely a Doosey.
Liz and i live at the top of the hill. If we walk past the houses on the other side of the street this is what you see. Unabridge view of amazing hawaiian mountains.
I told Elizabeth there were easter eggs out there so she went looking. Truth is Elizabeth IS the easter egg.
Last night at work i got REALLY bored so i took a some business cards and made this. I think it's quite impressive.
Ok well i think that's all the pictures i have for the moment. Catch ya on the flip side.
Me Encanta
I love it here. I love every second here. Even those moments where I'm hot and sweaty and my legs are shaking because I've ridden so far on my bike; I love every moment. The people here are my kind of people. The weather here is my kind of weather. This is exactly the kind of life I needed to get me out of the mainland funk. I have yet to meet a single stressed out person that wasn't getting back on a plane to go home. Everyone works their jobs and pays their bills so that they can spend the rest of their waking moments enjoying life.
I wondered at first whether Elizabeth's descriptions of life here were simply shaded with rose colored glasses. Every other time she had come here she was spending it with someone she loved. Obviously this place would seem like paradise to someone in her position. She couldn't be more right though. To be completely honest, words can't even do it justice. From my house, I can bike 3 miles to the north or 3 miles to the south and see 6 completely different and unique beaches, 2 towns, Whales breeching, and a sunken sailboat. There are sailboats that arent sinking, but the sunken one is always there.
Anyway i know i still need to do pictures but it's already 11pm and it's going to take forever to upload them. I do have internet here, it's Wifi from the main house in front. It's not the fastest thing in the world though, so i'll do pictures tomorrow. I PROMISE.
Te Quiero!
I wondered at first whether Elizabeth's descriptions of life here were simply shaded with rose colored glasses. Every other time she had come here she was spending it with someone she loved. Obviously this place would seem like paradise to someone in her position. She couldn't be more right though. To be completely honest, words can't even do it justice. From my house, I can bike 3 miles to the north or 3 miles to the south and see 6 completely different and unique beaches, 2 towns, Whales breeching, and a sunken sailboat. There are sailboats that arent sinking, but the sunken one is always there.
Anyway i know i still need to do pictures but it's already 11pm and it's going to take forever to upload them. I do have internet here, it's Wifi from the main house in front. It's not the fastest thing in the world though, so i'll do pictures tomorrow. I PROMISE.
Te Quiero!
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