For the past number of years,our gracious host Roger left at our disposal a beach cruiser to tool around on. Sam was the only one to ride it the first few years,but this year Henry and I joined the team. This year it was Mike,Rogers’ son,who in Rogers’ place ,allowed us to use the bike. [...]
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Disneyland Kauai Style
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bike rides, Haena State Park, Ke'e Beach, Ted & Debbie Photgraphers, The Jungle Cruise, The Matterhorn on 4 September,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Winding Down
Posted in Day to day maintance, Food, tagged ahi burgers, gecko, kauai, queen garden spiders, spiders, waldorf schools on 27 August,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Not only did I see the Milky Way and a meteor while taking an outdoor shower in the rain, I also saw a gecko when I turned on the light. This is one of the few photos I’ve taken while naked.
With only 8 days left till we go back home we find ourselves thinking about [...]
All Star Game, Pizza and Root Beer
Posted in Day to day maintance, Food, Sports, Uncategorized, tagged baseball, Carl Crawford, Johnny Depp, MLB, pizza, root beer on 15 July,2009 | Leave a Comment »
The MLB All Star Game is synonymous with pizza and root beer in our house, as is Debbie going out for dinner and or a movie with friends.
The American League won for the 13th straight year and was highlighted by an amazing catch by Tampa Bays’ Carl Crawford. Us gentlemen made and ate 2 pepperoni [...]
Good Morning Sunshine
Posted in Day to day maintance, Gardening, Uncategorized, tagged bob's donuts, espresso, heath ceramics, la pavoni, sunflowers on 11 July,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Four Little Piggies
Posted in Day to day maintance, Food, Gardening, Recipe on 15 June,2009 | 1 Comment »
Summer is in full swing. The kids are fighting while playing Monopoly. Theo has been caught cheating red- handed trying to load the dice in order to land on and buy Boardwalk. I never liked Monopoly. I still don’t. What I do like is Pork with a capital “P”. We’ve been buying our pork at [...]
Sequoia Chapter 3- The Cucina
Posted in Food, Recipe, tagged camping, sequoia, cooking, tri tip, korean ribs, marshmellows, campfires, coleman stoves, weber bbq, meat, hawaiian boneless ribs on 29 May,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weeks before our camping trip, the emails about food start. What usually happens is 2 families are responsible for one dinner each night. Lunches are real simple, sandwiches, fruit, beef stick, cheese. This year it went something like this: Night 1 - Catriona made a 18 or 19 bean stew served with corn bread. Johnny [...]
(Kosher) Parenting Tip #1 and #2
Posted in Day to day maintance, Food, Lifes Mysteries, Recipe, tagged huli- huli chicken, kosher, kosher salt, parenting on 4 March,2009 | 1 Comment »
Now that I’ve got your attention with this post title, here we go… Parenting tip #1, actually parenting toddler tip#1, well actually parenting toddler/ dad tip#1, no wait, Dad who has a toddler boy tip#1- When going into a public mens room and should you give your toddler the option to use the toilet or [...]
Pulled and Pressed
Posted in Food, tagged breakfast, cuban coffee, cuban toast on 24 February,2009 | Leave a Comment »
Traditions (old and new)
Posted in Celebrations, Food, He Said, tagged Advent, Christmas, flaming pudding, Henshey's Department Store, nativity scenes, stuffed artichokes, traditions on 24 December,2008 | Leave a Comment »
When does a tradition start? When does a tradition become a tradition? What is a tradition? I think a tradition is something that is is repeated (no matter how silly) year after year,interwoven by a thread of family and friends. It’s like looking at those books and photo albums on your grandparents’ bookshelves. You’ve looked [...]
Givingthanks(part 1-the food)
Posted in Celebrations, Food, Recipe, tagged Bell's Seasoning, capons, cranberry sauce, D'Artagan, persimmon pudding, truffle butter, wet brine, Zankou chicken on 30 November,2008 | Leave a Comment »
Every year we sit down at our Thanksgiving dinner table (actually this year we had 2 tables, one for grownups and one for the under 14 crowd) and every year (after the grandmas stake their claim on the turkey wings and everyone has finished asking “where do we sit?”) after we say our blessings I [...]
