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Olena (turmeric) & nioi (chili pepper)
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la'au lapa'au
Well it's been a while since I updated and to address the last post I have taken a liking to the plants here, or a better appreciation of them, after spending the summer on the Big Island, taking a class on native plants, and now studying la'au lapa'au at UH. I realize I sometimes dont feel so attached to staying here like with California because I ( Read more... ) -
forests vs carbon: what you shouldnt think about at 5 am
i had a fun hour gardening today. mom and i went to elwood's to buy seeds and some impatiens and those bell-shaped purple flowers i had in oakland, which i can now identify as belonging to campanulaceae, but not much else. i miss gardening! i got all muddy. the first plant i seeded in a pot in oakland is still alive and has so many flowers and buds ( Read more... ) -
BEACH HOUSE!
after spending the day at a beach house,i am pretty sure that if i ever save up money for something, it will be for that. i called paperofcolor today just to tell him my dilemma: i've always wanted a huge garden in the country; can i have a beach in the back and a garden in the front? the salt will not be so good for a fruit garden, but container- ( Read more... ) -
update
well my plan to eat locally has not really been followed. since whole paycheck opened about a 5 minute drive away, and since around 1/4 of their produce is from local farmers, i dont really have an excuse except are you kidding me? it costs 5 bucks for a baguette there. they do however carry the elusive soy vay (which i found with mixed success in ( Read more... ) -
diet adjustment
today i half read an article in the paper about this family that tries to eat food grown locally/within a 130 mi radius (the major hawaiian islands) while staying within a budget of $15/dinner for 4. they cheated and bought chicken from the mainland because they couldnt find cheap enough local meat, which i felt defeated the purpose of their ( Read more... ) -
lanai garden
here are some images of my second
attempt at having a garden on the
lanai. it's quite windy, some of
the beans didnt make it.
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spam! i wish i was your lover
well it's been forever since i wrote / checked updates here. lots has happened since the balmy february days, was that the last time i posted? didnt i post something angry at some point? anyway i have been going thru my neglected yahoo account and have deleted like 500 spam msgs and other crap, and am discovering messages and evites i didnt even ( Read more... ) -
sick
i'm fighting off a cold on the 3rd day of symptoms (i mistook the first day of symptoms as sleeping or eating something wrong, and stupidly had a pint of beer and an enchilada for dinner - there go 16 sick-free months!), which seems to be not going away, got worse, but now seems better, and i think partly due to the neti pot which i finally ( Read more... )
