BIll and Jeannine's Big Adventure: Pics of Our Neighborhood

When we lived in The Woodlands, the teachers I worked with and I (I must confess) nicknamed the women of the Woodlands, the WOWs. To be a wow you lived the good life taking full advantage of the amenities of The Woodlands, and generally didn't work. Well, I'm not quite a WOW being a Waikoloa Woman( I work), but the wonder of this place wows me daily. On my morning walk I inhale the delicate aroma of the Plumeria, ogle with appreciation the loaded lemon tree, and marvel at the vibrant colors of the bouganville. I walk up a hill as I our subdivision is cut in the side of a mountain. Today my legs were really hurting and I just thought, "Ok, that's going to make some nice leg muscles if I do this day after day!

I just go through the day blessing and being blessed in this beautiful space. Look at some of the pics I took day of my little car, the view of the ocean and mountains from our home, and our home. Let me know how it affects you.

Perseids Meteor Showers

Hi Everyone, It looks like the Perseids Metorite Showers will be putting in a spectacular appearance around August 12th and then the Aurigids will be showing September 1. Check your night sky!!!!!!

Aloha!

Aloha! Greetings from Bill and I from beautiful, sunny, pristeen Hawaii! We are settled in our home at Waikoloa Village and we finally have DSL connection! Our house is stucco, with an asphalt roof. It has a bit of a look of the islands in that it has so many windows in it and so much sun shines in. Where we live, it only rains about seven inches a year! It is maika'i for allergy sufferers! Basically my lungs don't burn here from pollution because there isn't any!

Let me give you a little tour of our property. Our property faces west and we see the beautiful sapphire blue Pacific Ocean! Honestly! We are about 1500-2000 feet up the side of a mountain. Out our side window to the north, we see the Kohala mountains, and out the southeast we see Mauna Kea, the largest mountain in the world when measured from base to summit. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Kea. It also houses several observatories, and you might enjoy reading about the world famous Institute for Astronomy that is housed atop Mauna Keo. http://www.ifa.hawaii.edu/ifa/about_ifa.htm

Interestingly, our lawn is composed of lava rock! Yes, that's right--lava rock! We have to bring dirt in to plant grass, but we will plant a special kind of grass that was meant to grow near the sea. It grows from rhizomes that seed themselves from cuttings gathered from someone's recently cut lawn!!!! Very inexpensive and hardy for this climate!

I'll work on getting some pics out tomorrow. I have to go get a special connector for my computer to read my cam's memory card. The nearest place to get this is Waimea, which is 15 miles away! Another story for another time! Ah, life in a village! We love it!