Uncle clay was in the front, greeting customers. Andrea bought a shave ice.
With Uncle Clay. Photo by Andrea.
The Pure Aloha Oath.
Some new ideas in aerial gunnery.
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Pupu and wine under the lychee tree.
We had taste testing with two merlots.
In the afternoon, Andrea and I attended our Writers Circle Zoom meeting.
Beware the conservative ethic:'The sick are the greatest danger for the well. The weaker, not the stronger, are the strong’s undoing. It is not fear of our fellow man, which we should wish to see diminished; for fear rouses those who are strong to become terrible in turn themselves and preserves the hard-earned and successful type of humanity. What is to be dreaded by us more than any other doom is not fear, but rather the great pity—disgust and pity for our human fellows … The morbid are our greatest peril—not the “bad” men, not the predatory beings. Those born wrong, the miscarried, the broken—they it is, the weakest, who are undermining the vitality of the race, poisoning our trust in life, and putting humanity in question.'
—Friedrich Nietzsche (quoted by William James in The Varieties of Religious Experience in dismissing him), from Zur Genealogie der Moral, Dritte Abhandlung, paragraph 14.
The Sans Souci Apartments, named after the beach, unlike the Kaimana Hotel next to it on the left.
Looking back toward the banyan trees from the beach.
In Arden restaurant. Selfie by Andrea.
Selfie by Andrea.
Photo by Riley, our bartender. It was his first sidecar.
The event at the church meeting room was well attended and lasted two hours (6 to 8).
Food was served. Speakers included a lawyer from the Hawaiʻi Attorney General's office (David Louie), and Liza Ryan Gill.
The first speaker partial video.
The welcome table.
Kumu Kilohana confers with hula girls before the event.
During the hula performance.
There was music and informal hula in the lobby afterward.
The duo performed beautifully with Kuʻuipo Kumukahi on guitar.
A short business meeting was held before the workshop.
Everyone was well engaged in the repotting.
John brought and mixed up the potting soil ingredients at club expense.
I repotted two formal uprights, a hibiscus and a pink trumpet flower tree.
Hula at the bandstand with Hawaiian music. Photo by Adrea.
Various vendors at the popups. Photo by Adrea.
Team Magma, FRC 3008, Kalani High School, was at the Taipei regional competition and did well. Photo by Bryan Silver via Facebook.
Andrea and I shared the heiau station. Photo by Andrea.
At changeover between the two groups. Six rotations altogether. One group in the learning center, one in the gardens.
Mentor volunteer Hatsuho tells about hana, the work of the people.
There are the farmer, the fisherman, the house builder, the weaver, etc.
Andrea talks about kūkaʻōʻō heiau.
We went to a sandwich shop in Mānoa Marketplace for lunch afterward. Then I drove Andrea to New City Nissan to pick up her car from service.
Wednesday morning, Andrea photographed this Michiko Hibiscus after our morning walk.
They went down by the back gate to the Youngs' house.
Down they went, like mountain goats.
Getting to work on both sides of the stream.
Andrea had this great bento lunch while volunteering at Mission Houses.
After lunch I had my spycraft Zoom class.
While keeping an eye on the stream workers, I repotted my pikake bonsai and photographed it after my spy class.
They watch and listen with rapt attention.
Several of the tour participants near the heiau. We had a mix of people from the mainland and locals from Mānoa and ʻAina Haina.
Hema watches as the students work on their kapa bands.
Before watering in the afternoon I noticed my mame ʻilima was blooming, so I photographed it. It's in one of the little pots that son Robert gave me.
The posed photo.
We went inside to eat the wonderful cakes that Paul and Faye brought.
Andrea won the dice game we played. This is the score sheet. Faye kept score.
We drove separately. I was a little early and photographed this view off the Learning Center lanai.
Docent students ready to begin at ten AM.
After classroom session we went into the Kaʻahaʻaina Garden, AKA the canoe garden.
In the Kaʻahaʻaina Garden.
Showing some new additions to the canoe garden.
More discussion with blooming and fruiting ʻōhia ʻai (mountain apple) in the background.
Our view of Ala Mānoa Park.
Interior view of Olive Garden.
Andrea had the soup, salad, and breadsticks. I had the shrimp appetizer. Photo by Andrea.
After defoliating the lower trunk, triple wound wiring, and bending into a moyogi shape.
Wednesday evening Andrea and I attended the monthly Aina Haina Prepared meeting via Zoom.
Andrea just had to get a picture of this. Inside the clothes look rather ordinary.
The courtyard on the way to the Ewa end of the mall.
Stopped at the bakery to get a pastry gift for John's staff, lilikoi ladyfingers.
After pruning. Wiring is generally not necessary on broom style bonsai.
First we set up chairs outside the gift shop, then we set up tables in the dining area.
Getting ready at the reception table.
Wildlife at Mission houses: kolea.
There are at least four nesting manu o kū (fairy terns).
There were several hens with chicks, too.
The event was well attended. Purple is for Women's History Month.
Inside the archive with Morgan and Cynthia.
Wine tasting on the gift shop lanai.
Mike talked to us in the 1821 frame house.
In Dr. Judd's dispensary in the frame house basement.
Susan became indisposed so Andrea filled her shoes in the Chamberlain house.
Mahi showed us many things to do with coconuts.
We got coconut water from the green ones.
My two cups from one coconut. Photo by Andrea.
My two cups after I got them home Saturday.
After drilling drainage holes and epoxying on cork feet.
Sunday, after varnishing.
The subject for the sunday Zoom philosophy meetup was censorship and bowdlerization: is it ever ethical.
I planted two shohin (small bonsai) junipers in my niu (coconut) shell pots.
Monday morning I photographed my plumeria forest bonsai.
That's my broom style escambron in the foreground, after pruning.
Gary and others observe the work on a ficus.
Tuesday afternoon Andrea and I attended our Zoom Writers Circle meeting.
We later played the dice game (dix mille) at our house with various liqueurs.
Cheers, everyone!
Friday afternoon I attended my Zoom class on spycraft.
The bonsai poinciana from seed gets a new training pot.
The chokan plumeria gets a new training pot.
Photographing the cute keiki.
Grandmother Betty sat in front.
Doraine took our picture.
Bob and Libby wore orange.
Betty and I said hi.
The parents of the bride. We were then asked to refrain from phtographing during the ceremony.
We drove to the reception at the Moanalua Country Club in Salt Lake.
A view of the golf course.
Andrea was beautiful in her muu muu.
Photo opportunity for the wedding party.
Noe and Zack have the first dance.
Photo by Andrea.
We did a selfie together. Andrea held the camera and I pushed the screen button.
A keiki lion dance.
People brought various goodies.
The demonstration begins. Charlene asked me to be MC
Charlene was an able assistant.
Clearing soil from the roots.
It was a well attended event by RSVP and ten dollars at the door.
Another view of the venue.
People were weldome to come up for a close view of the informal event.
Charlene helped place moss.
The raft style bonsai with rocks was auctioned for two hundred dollars. Eaton of Rainbow Bonsai Club was the winning bidder.
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