June 2012 Journal Photos

Concrete columns are added using cut-down water bottles as molds. Four pieces of steel wire are in each with #10 all-thread.

The finished mahogany deck serves two purposes: it allows easier traversal of the corner and it hides the drain. Saturday,
June 2^nd.

Waffles for breakfast with the Sunday Paper, June 3^rd.

Andrea's birthday present, a menehune garden bridge, under construction.

Andrea worked all day Sunday on the front yard landscaping.

Monday morning, June 4^th, I finished Andrea's birthday present, the garden bridge.

The menehune bridge looks fine in the front garden.

Andrea likes it!

Workmen installing the chain link fence.

A pneumatic hammer is used to break up the boulders.

A helicopter was used to lower material from the ridge above.

The next day we went to the beach during the transit of Venus.

Andrea posted this photo on Facebook. I don't know why she made it so small.

This encampment on the "loner bench" under the banyan tree has been there every day this week (since Monday).

Andrea took this photo of the birthday card I gave her.

We picked up Carol and went to Assagio in Hawaii Kai for birthday dinner.

At the table in Assagio.

Earth moving continues. Photo taken Sunday, June 10^th.

Andrea took this photo inside the theater while the seats filled up.

Afterwards we brought Carol back to the shopping center to get her car and then drove separately to Outback Steakhouse.

From the steakhouse I took this photo of Diamondhead across the water of Maunalua Bay.

We joined Lynn and Flo for dinner at the steakhouse.

Earth moving continues. Photo taken Monday, June 11^th.

On the way there we stopped at a house to buy some fresh ahi. They had a sign on the highway.

Suzi greeted us and was glad to receive our gifts of mango and fresh ahi.

We enjoyed some bloody marys.

I helped tend bar.

I've seen this painting in their house many times, but that day I took a picture of it.

This is one of Horan's from his computer art period.

I had never taken photos in the downstairs bedroom before, so I snapped some. Horan has some great plates.

More plates on the wall on the other side of the bed. Notice the pineapple lamp!

Two of Horan's ceramic pictures on the opposite wall of the bedroom.

Suzi made some soup for us.

A ceramic seahorse picture in the downstairs bathroom!

More Horan plates in the kitchen.

Two more plates.

On the way home we drove by the abandoned shopping center behind Koko Crater in the Kalama Valley. Dickey roofs!

Andrea got me a Roomba 552 by iRobot. It's cleaning the floor of the house we were married in!

I'm working on a bench built from mahogany salvaged from the bedroom demolition. Photo taken Wednesday, June 13^th.

Bench work continues. Photo taken Thursday, June 14^th.

Andrea dumps roots into the green bin below the ridge house construction. Photo taken Thursday, June 14^th.

Closeup of the ridge house.

We had dinner and wine as the people came for the concert. Photo by Andrea.

Darren Benitez (center) and his sidemen take the stage first in the evening at the aquarium. Photo by Andrea. Also performing
that evening were Kauna Torres-Kahele and Mark Yamanaka.

We had two tables by Radio Shack.

The studens demonstrated bristlebots and showed the kids how to build them. Photo by Andrea.

We had a good turnout by student volunteers.

Our display generated lots of interest. Photo by Andrea.

Andrea took lots of pictures.

There were lots of other keiki activities at the mall such as this parachute activity. Photo by Andrea.

I got this picture of Andrea taking the picture of the parachute fun when we had lunch at Panini Grill.

The students did well and the keiki had fun.

Lots of happy keiki that day at the mall.

Bench work continues: it's fully assembled now. Photo taken Sunday, June 17^th.

I finished the bench on Sunday, Fathers' Day, with two coats of spar varnish. Photo taken Monday, June 18^th.

Art collector Marvin (right) and his son Jacob (left) were there when we arrived. Jacob had helped Horan in the shop previously.

Jacob and Marvin had brought an old Horan piece to show him. It had been rescued from a vacant lot by friends of Jacob's.

Horan's first wife Ruth had thrown the sculpture out of the apartment, breaking off some of the horns, about 50 years ago.

Marvin and Jacob didn't stay long. Horan was in good spirits and seemed glad to see Lenore.

Horan said that this sculpture is a portrait of Suzi. He said you can tell because of the boobs.

We dropped off a passion flower plant and some mangos and didn't stay long. Horan and Suzi saw us to the car.

We stopped for lunch at Cinnamon's in Kailua. I had the meat loaf with two scoops of rice. Andrea had the veggie patty melt.
Lenore had the nachos without jalepenos.

Earth moving continues. Photo taken Tuesday, June 19^th.

We went to City Mill to get compost and stopped at the farmers' market at the waterfront in Hawaii Kai to buy papayas.

Andrea at the top of the stairway to the stream.

Armed with a pole saw, Andrea prepares to reduce the schefflera.

Schefflera provide food for some species of butterflies and are said to attract birds.

Earth moving continues. Photo taken Thursday, June 21^st.

Earth moving continues. Photo taken Thursday, June 22^nd.

We went early and parked at the Holy Trinity Catholic Church with whom arrangements had been made. We were the first to arrive
at the beach. Andrea with Diamondhead in the background.

Ralph arrived next in his kayak from Hawaii Kai.

The early arrivers are old time members of Malama Maunalua. Photo by Andrea.

Volunteers help unload the truck.

Layton, a former director of the Waikiki Aquarium, let volunteers use the bathroom at his house.

Volunteers gather around for the morning briefing.

Kimo and Tegan give the morning briefing. Wearing gloves is important.

We took the wagons of empty bags fifty yards down the beach to be near the huki zone. Photo by Andrea.

I helped with the sign-in and waiver forms. Photo by Andrea.

Limu huki volunters take empty bags out to the marked square to begin work.

One of the boys pushes while Andrea pulls the wagon full of limu.

The kids were good help.

Andrea carries heavy wet bags of limu.

These two boys caught a baby moray eel when the tide went out.

A flight of petrels flew right overhead. There were six or seven altogether.

With the tide out it's hard to pull the kayak laden with limu so people walked the bags back.

Afterward Andrea and I went shopping at Costco.

Andrea ordered the corned beef hash.

I had my usual two fried eggs with link sausage and toast.

Later we walked to the zoo fence to see Paul Forney.

He has a lot of new paintings.

We went by the crafts fair in Kapiolani Park.

We walked back to the car by the shoreline at Queen's Surf Beach. Photo by Andrea.

We saw many humuhumunukunukuapuaa (the State fish) along the way. Photo by Andrea.

June 26^th.

June 27^th.

June 28^th.

Billy V, who hosts the morning show on KINE 105 FM, was the master of ceremonies, as usual. His son was a runner for raffle prizes.

Weldon Kekauoha and his sidemen were up first.

There was a beautiful sunset in Waikiki.

The peppermint angelfish is the rarest tropical fish in the world.

Abe's angelfish is the second rarest tropical fish in the world, both are at the Waikiki Aquarium.

Wendel had a halau of hula dancers.

After the wahine, the kane dancers took the stage.

Raiatea Helm and her sidemen was up for the second half after intermission.

Raiatea has a beautiful high pitched voice. She sang a wonderful new jazz number in addition to the traditional Hawaiian songs.

Raiatea went to Molokai high school (101 students in the class of '02) and told a story about learning hula there.

Earth moving continues. Photo taken Friday, June 29^th.

Andrea and I went to the beach on Friday, June 29^th, and I saw this warship on the horizon, probably for the
RIMPAC war games that started this day.

The volunteers gather in a circle for the morning briefing with Koko Head in the background.

Kimo says a few words, thanking the volunteers.

The volunteers quickly go to work. Photo by Andrea.

After raking up leaves we discovered this hole in the concrete.

Other volunteers rehabilitate the greenhouse. Photo by Andrea.

So we filled the hole with rubble preparing to finish it with concrete. Andrea made a run to City Mill to get a second bag.

Putting in sand before the concrete. Photo by Lynette Cruz.

Putting in concrete after rubble and sand. Photo by Andrea.

The front of Lunalilo Home with Koko Crater in the background.

Councilmember Stanley Chang came by to lend encouragement.

Kahu Kaleo Paik blessed the garden and the volunteers.

We stood around the garden to receive the blessing.

After the blessing the sweet potatoes and other plants were planted. Photo by Andrea.

The hole in the concrete was completely patched.

The finished garden! Photo by Andrea.