Report from South Kona

Middle of the week and getting home just after sunset , then making dinner feeding the kids doing laundry , wow how exciting . Now that they are in bed , that can be a battle ,
and I have a minute or two to myself. There is not much going on , the weather has been a little overcast and no surf at all, just working and laying low from all the crazy drivers.
I miss the old days when there was not so many people and we still had the old funky Kainaliu Christmas parade. It lasted only about 30 minutes and they would close the Hwy down for it. The whole thing was fun and very very funky with the high point being Santa on the flat bed truck hurling candy at the crowd and kids with all their bags getting all they could. It stopped a couple of years ago after being around since I think the 50s because the insurance got expensive and the traffic has increased. Many of the new comers complained about the road stoppage and it finally was cancelled. The kids went to everyone of the parades even infants they went. ( they had to be shielded from all the flying candy as babies ) Almost anyone could be in the parade it was just a home town affair with the high school band and a couple of cars with lights on , maybe a fire engine and some dogs with hats on.

Thats enough for tonight Steve