Mondays can be plenty of fun . After a mellow morning and early afternoon of work . With a cooling smoothie stop at midday before finishing off our stops . Ute and I pulled up to a warm and clear ocean down at Kahaluu beach park . Small waves broke softly with their white foam over the reef . After a summer of either no waves or too rough of waves , Ute and I went out for her first time surfing . Ute on the Slick a 9 foot long board with three fins in back , this board has been around almost 15 years . One of the classic boards made by the Slickermeyer a super cool old time Big island board maker . I went out on my black body board . Entering the ocean in a small channel thru the lava rock with its fresh cold spring water coming up in the warm water of the sea . With a little push out we paddled , Ute getting right on the board for her first time . Voyaging out toward the breaking waves with her first strokes pushing her out to warmer waters . Once out about midway we stopped for a little lesson in sitting on the board , Ute with her Horse back ridding experience just sat right up and balanced just right . Floating around a little we moved just inside the break after not getting any waves breaking where we had been . Now as the first ones came I had Ute lay down and paddle , but at the last minute I pulled her back worried about a wipe out . LOL I shouldn’t have , the next wave off she paddled and with a push she caught the wave and sped away . Riding along till the wave rolled up on the inside , her first wave . Back out right away we went just a bit farther out and caught a little bigger wave . Ute ridding cleanly right along again 50 or more yards right to the inside . Now the Slick is not the perfect learning board , one of those big foam one that float so much and are super stable are , anyone can ride those . Ute tuned right into the board and rode a total of 7 nice waves , the biggest one I thought for sure I would see her flipping and the board go flying . But off she went just the back of the wave visible , speeding in a long ride about a 75 yard cruise toward shore . Inside , right in line with the ride a tourist and a surf instructor sat catching the smaller inside waves . Ute unseen from the back was being propelled right toward them . The reason this was apparent was the instructors eyes slowly got wider and wider . Oh no , it looked like Ute was going to run right over them , realizing that there was no brakes on a surf board . At the last second she pulled a perfect turn right out of the wave . laughing away as the instructor asked if she was alright , Ute paddled right back out thru two breaking waves to ride some more . It was such a classic wave for the first time surfing that we laughed for several minutes , rode a couple more and headed in surfed out , happy and hungry . Just the way to be after a reat afternoon in the water . Now I don’t know if I ever will get the Slick back , I think I will have to drop her off tomorrow while I go work . lol
After a long hot week of work , we found some beds finally . We found one on Thursday for Ute and I on Craigs list . Rushed down in the morning and got one , they go quick if you don’t get there . We had to load it up and leave it at one of the houses I work at so it didn’t have to ride around on the truck all day . It was a llloonnng day , we worked all day and then hit the big food store and loaded up at the end of the day . Then went back loaded up the bed again and off to home . Where we unloaded the bed again and hauled it into the house , we had been sleeping on a air mattress so long . Oh it was almost to comfortable to be on a real bed again . LOL It is pretty nice from a vacation house so it wasn’t used much and came with a bunch of sheet and pillows too , all almost new . Friday the kids had no school , due to the new furlough of the teachers to save money . Its a little crazy but they are not having school for 17 Fridays to save money on the teachers pay . Republican Governor has screwed up the state once again . Just a ploy to cause trouble to the teachers union . Anyway Ute stayed home with Kaylee and Chris and Kyle came to work . Ute found another bed and we called at the end of the day for that one . When we called back for directions to the house they didn’t answer so we thought we had missed it . After stopping at the book store for Kyle , he wanted a book that was his pay for working , and a couple of other stops we were just headed home when they called just before we left town . Hurray we got another one for Chris , another good one , we lucked out big on used beds . Now we just need a set of bunk beds so Kyle can have one and a extra for sleep overs and guests . Kyle hasn’t come down much but I hope he will .
Saturday the whole crew , Ute , Kaylee , Chris and myself all set out on a moving garage sale mission . Looking for a desk or table for Chris’s computer and also any furniture or other good stuff . We scored two boxes of really cool dishes , lots of plates and bowels and a plethora of coffee cups . Chris got a house intercom system , yikes , lots of buzzing the first day LOL . A set of small book shelves , but no chairs or anything , our offers must have been too low . hahahaha After shopping we stopped for lunch at Bale a Vietnamese French spot , they have a great crispy noodles dish and that Pho soup that is so good . It comes full of rice noodles and chicken . Then you add fresh bean sprouts and basil plus a little bit of fresh hot peppers . Yum . Then went for a little shopping for some clothes and shoes , a little this and that . Loaded up we hauled out booty home and kicked back sending the dishes thru the washer and getting buzzed with the intercom system . As evening set in we hauled down for a little swim with Dewey and then home for dinner and a little Movie watching .
We did have a little scare at lunch , a large bit of crispy noodles , almost had Ute . Looking over Kaylee had a wide eyed look and turning my head left next to me . Ute could not talk , some expanding noodles had got lodged in her throat . She couldn’t talk a sign of choking , just before I jumped up for a little Heimlich they slipped back out . Neatly into a napkin phew that was close . watch those crispy noodles .
Hanging out now having coffee in some of the new cups with the neat blue flower and leaf vine wrapping around . Ute got a new drip coffee maker since that was the kind she liked , but we may have spoiled it for her with all the espresso , oops LOL
Rubbing Ute’s toes on Sunday Morning , Stay Cool Steve
Ute and I spent all day Saturday at the beach . Keei , with good waves breaking all day , sun and turtles . Laying around drinking Lemon aid and watching the waves , riding a few , letting the palm fronds cool the breeze . I have been wanting to take Ute out to ride some waves , it seems that each time it’s a little to big and rough . LOL She just got some new fins . a nice set of voit duck feet . Old time classic , the ones I have most always used , good for swimming and Boogie Boards . Dewie came along , he is very happy to be down at that beach , still a cool and free one with dogs and no ticket writers . The water was just right , a few turtles munching seaweed off the rocks along the shore . Drifting back and forth in the waves that had been slowed and calmed by the inside reef . I ended up doing two surf sessions , one long , a shorter one as the tide came in with a strong current . Riding several waves all day .
Sunday was just a mellow one , a morning trip out for a omelet at LL drive in . It was fun to do , nothing much fancy . After that we just hung around in the heat , it was much hotter then yesterday . Made a big jug of Lemon aid and a batch of salsa , watched a couple of episodes of Fire Fly and fixed a tire on the hand truck . With the cool of the evening here having a little coffee with Ute , enjoying the transition from day to night . Making some brown rice and some shrimp .
Still Blazing hot every day , waiting for it to cool down . Total Global Warming syndrome . Well half way thru October and maybe even hotter then all summer . Ute and I have been blazing away all week getting pool after pool done . The kids all start a 4 day school week since we have such a bogus Governor thats her money saving idea cut a school day . Oh and close the trash transfer stations every other day . So the schools will for 17 weeks have no school on Fridays to save money . What a nimrod , plus she was a Bush butt kisser .
Tomorrow will finish off the week then a long lazy day down at Keei Beach on Saturday , just surfing , swimming and making out on the sand . LOL Ute and I a couple of boards , a big cooler and off we will go .
Darn it is still totally hot at 8pm , hot and humid , it feels like the east coast of something . Time for our evening walk then kick back with a movie .
Off for another week , down in Town for a nice sunny day . It’s hot and the ocean is calm , so far a bogus summer all in all for waves . There has been one swell that I had to work during . But over all the daily small waves have not been happening . The kids are off for the week , chris has a ton of homework to catch up on . Kyle who knows , Video games , Kaylee is helping us today after a appt . Stay Cool Steve
October 6, 2009 – Tuesday
Waiting for a Parade , Dewey on a wanted poster
Hanging out waiting for a parade to end lol. The K girl is in with her group of cheer leaders the Ironman parade. Yes it’s that whole thing again. The town Is packed , bicycles zipping here and there just waiting to be hit . LOL Im posting having a coffee on my iPhone . Anyway there is posters around with a lost dog that looks a lot like Dewey . The lost dog isn’t the Dewman but the picture turns out to be of him . There is a little note that the pic isn’t of the lost dog but looks like him . The pic comes from the Humain soc. It’s one of him Before we adopted him . We kept seeing the fliers and We thought it might be a dewman look alike . So funny it is the dewman . LOL Steve
Not Again
Oct 9 Friday
Here I am again at the Konawaena High School football game . Really just to see Kaylee Cheer and Chris likes to come for the crowd . We aren’t into football at all in fact it’s boring to me . LOL But we have to pick up Kaylee so we came to see her cheer in her new outfit they just got . Its been so fricken hot still everyday , hotter then I can remember . Tomorrow we have to get to the beach. 96 in shade , lol Steve
I do not consider myself a religious person in the usual sense, but there is a religious aspect to some highs. The heightened sensitivity in all areas gives me a feeling of communion with my surroundings, both animate and inanimate. Sometimes a kind of existential perception of the absurd comes over me and I see with awful certainty the hypocrisies and posturing of myself and my fellow men. And at other times, there is a different sense of the absurd, a playful and whimsical awareness. Both of these senses of the absurd can be communicated, and some of the most rewarding highs I’ve had have been in sharing talk and perceptions and humor. Cannabis brings us an awareness that we spend a lifetime being trained to overlook and forget and put out of our minds. A sense of what the world is really like can be maddening; cannabis has brought me some feelings for what it is like to be crazy, and how we use that word ‘crazy’ to avoid thinking about things that are too painful for us. In the Soviet Union political dissidents are routinely placed in insane asylums. The same kind of thing, a little more subtle perhaps, occurs here: ‘did you hear what Lenny Bruce said yesterday? He must be crazy.’ When high on cannabis I discovered that there’s somebody inside in those people we call mad.
When I’m high I can penetrate into the past, recall childhood memories, friends, relatives, playthings, streets, smells, sounds, and tastes from a vanished era. I can reconstruct the actual occurrences in childhood events only half understood at the time. Many but not all my cannabis trips have somewhere in them a symbolism significant to me which I won’t attempt to describe here, a kind of mandala embossed on the high. Free-associating to this mandala, both visually and as plays on words, has produced a very rich array of insights.
There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we’re down the next day. Some of the hardest work I’ve ever done has been to put such insights down on tape or in writing. The problem is that ten even more interesting ideas or images have to be lost in the effort of recording one. It is easy to understand why someone might think it’s a waste of effort going to all that trouble to set the thought down, a kind of intrusion of the Protestant Ethic. But since I live almost all my life down I’ve made the effort – successfully, I think. Incidentally, I find that reasonably good insights can be remembered the next day, but only if some effort has been made to set them down another way. If I write the insight down or tell it to someone, then I can remember it with no assistance the following morning; but if I merely say to myself that I must make an effort to remember, I never do.
Ute and I had a little afternoon down at South Point , flying kites and letting the Dew man run around the open lands . After having to go a do a little job this morning and dropping the K Girl of at the top of the hill , meeting the van of Cheer Leaders , on their way to Hilo for a game . Hit the road south , loaded with Kites a cooler and a couple of sandwiches . Peanut butter and jam , Strawberry , yumm . Dry and brown , it hasn’t been raining down there , we did then cruise . Stopped at the cliffs to check them out and then ventured over to the meadows by the sea . Steady wind was a perfect day for a little flying . We sent up on the small kites first to get tuned in to the wind . Ute flew great , zipping that kite here and there , wiping turns just fractions of a inch from the ground . Had so much fun we ran out of time to send up a bigger kite . Next time LOL .
The last two weeks have been work , work , work . It was great to have a afternoon off , just us two . Ute being such a good dog trainer has made Dewey such a good dog . He is really fun to take places , plus he has started to swim well and seems to know most of the time when the water is too rough to go in . A surf dog in the making , he like to float around down at pebble on a boogie board then dive off and swim around .
Down load some video now from today with the kite flying so watch for a new vid .
