September 2020 Journal Photos

Life in Aina Haina

Still under semi-lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tuesday morning, September 1, I took photo of my bonsai bougainvillea. Click the image to see the full resolution version.

Tuesday afternoon I repotted my han kengai haggerbush into this glazed pot that Scott Bennis, Rainbow Bonsai Club Treasurer, gave me.

Wailupe Stream

Wednesday morning, September 2^nd, Andrea and I went to Long's (CVS) for our flu shots. Then I watched the televised end-of-war memorial ceremony at Pearl Harbor. 75 years ago, the Instrument of Surrender was signed by Japan on the deck of the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, with dignitaries from nine nations witnessing. Governor Ige gave an inspiring speech. He seems to do much better when he's not speaking extemporaneously. He was in my graduating class, College of Engineering, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1979. I mentioned that to him when I met him at the Kunia Orchid Show one time when Rainbow Bonsai Club had its annual display there. Of course, he and I don't remember each other. He may have been in one of my classes, I don't know, maybe not. I would have remembered if we were acquaintences or friends. At the surrender ceremony 75 years ago, the battleship USS Missiouri was accompanied by 250 other war vessels and nearly a thousand warplanes flew overhead in a show of force.

At 8:30 AM, T = 97.2 F. Andrea continues to photograph the stream on a regular basis.

A view downstream from Hao Place access point. The walls they are putting up are about six feet high. We will see how they
survive the winter.

New Sikorsky aircraft on the cover of Aviation Week. They are the S-97 Raider and the SB-1 Defiant, both high speed rotorcraft.
At the Florida test center in a demonstration for the US Army. Copyright by Aviation Week, fair use for educational purposes.

Labor Day Weekend

Labor day was Monday, September 7, this year.

Flying the flag for Labor Day weekend, Sunday, September 6. A light rain with a waterproof flag.

Flying the flag on Labor Day, Monday, September 6. A new nylon flag.

Thursday, September 10, I took this photo of the orchid I had brought in two days ago.

Thursday morning I brought in this Natal plum bonsai, about six inches tall. The tree is a gift from Josephine and the freeform pot
is by Ryan Greer.

Politics

Andrea has been active in Democratic Party politics, helping with the Hawaii for Biden and Moe Davis for Congress (North Carolina) campaigns.

Saturday morning, September 12, Andrea conducted phone banking training via Zoom.

Monday afternoon, September 14, the orchid is opening up nicely with the Venus flytrap in the foreground.

Miscellaneous

Andrea and I went to City Mill Wednesday morning, September 16, and got some spray paint to refinish the metal organizers she found in her Dad's old office. She also bought a young cara cara navel orange tree.

Andrea found this poem Becky wrote and sent to Lenore years ago. I scanned it September 16.

I downloaded this Friends of the Waikiki Aquarium Zoom background Thursday morning, September 17.

The stream work is now behind the Coitos' house.

The cara cara orange that Andrea purchased yesterday.

The cara cara orange repotted into a ceramic pot. A top layer of coral sand helps to keep the soil from washing away when watering.

Sunday, September 20, US Covid-19 deaths seem to be hanging in there.

Sunday afternoon Andrea and I took a walk to Hind Drive bridge to look at the stream.

Monday morning work on the strea. Picking up a boulder. September 21.

Early Tuesday morning. September 22. Liner was laid down yesterday.

Tuesday morning, September 22, first day of Fall. Keeping an eye on the world coronavirus cases.

Wednesday afternoon a stream worker was sent up in the bucket to cut some branches from Mrs. Young's mango tree.

Andrea found this Sans Souci history.

Thursday, September 24, Andrea volunteered again giving out food for Angel Network at Calvary by the Sea church on Kalanianaole Highway. Yesterday I had a Zoom meeting with Gordon McClellan of Canoe Tree Press in Vermont about publishing my autobiography, which is almost finished. Right now it's a Word documentr of over 90 thousand words and runs nearly 300 pages formatted for 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper.

Andrea at Angel Network at Calvary by the Sea. Photo by Danny Tengan.

Dinner at Roy's

Thursday night, September 24, we went to dinner at Roy's in Hawaii Kai.

I had a Manhattan. Photo by Andrea.

Photo by our waiter after pupu of zucchini tempura.

Clouds but no rain at sunset.

Andrea had the fish trio. I had the seafood and risotto in the black bowl.

Potting a Haggerbush Bonsai

Friday afternoon, September 24, 2020, I decided to put a haggerbush I had been training for a few years into a bonsai pot.

I purchased this ten inch wide glazed Japanese pot from a nursery in Waimanalo several years ago. The pieces of 1/8 inch aluminum
window screen will be used over the two holes in the bottom of the pot.

The haggergush bonsai, currently in a concrete training pot, has been in bonsai training for several years.

A close pruning is all the tree needs right now. It had been previously wired at least once.

A rear quarter view of the bonsai. A layer of sand covers the potting soil to keep it from floating away while it sits submerged in water.

I did not need to do any root pruning. The bonsai is ready for a growing bench.

I created a separate page for the haggergush bonsai demonstration.

Covid-19

I continued the track the novel coronavirus and the disease it causes, covid-19. Today, Saturday, September 26, I'm looking at Florida.

Florida deaths continue at about the same level as a month ago.

From the Sep. 7 article, "The Uncounted," by Dexter Filkins, in the New Yorker:

From the beginning, questions were raised about how truthful DeSantis's administration had been regarding the epidemic. In May, Rebekah Jones, who managed the state's coronavirus dashboard, was fired for refusing, in her words, "to manually change data to drum up support for the plan to reopen." (A DeSantis spokesperson has said that Jones was fired for a pattern of insubordination.) When the death counts compiled by county medical examiners began to regularly exceed those released by the Florida Department of Health, the state withheld the higher number. After weeks of assurances that a vigorous contact tracing campaign was reaching more than nintety per cent of infected people, workers in the Miami-Dade County district discovered that the rate was closer to seventeen per cent. "You can't spin the pandemic away," Gelber, the Miami Beach mayor, told me. --copyright by the New Yorker, all rights reserved. Fair use for educational purposes.

Sunday morning, September 27, Andrea visited Mom at the care home where she was Skyping with Bill.

I attended the Zoom meetup philosophy discussion group today (Sunday). There was a suggestion to watch "Humans" on TV. I heard from my friend John Gardner by email for the first time after the August 26 Hurricane Laura, who's eye passed right over his residence in DeRitter, Louisiana. Power was out for 11 days, but cell phone service was hardly impacted.

Monday morning John sent me this photo of him with his rescue kitten.

Part of a key theorem in my dissertation that allows a fast form closure test. John had sent an article on Dennis Ritchie's lost dissertation,
so I sent this back as proof of my dissertation.

Tuesday I took this photo of the orchid from below using selfie mode.

Wailupe Stream Stone Walls

The workers were behind the Young residence this week, Wednesday, September 30.

After digging a trench at the base of the stream bank, they put down black plastic fabric to put the boulders on.

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