Haute Hot!

Prayin' to get outta here before the mower comes!

Summer is HOT in Puna right now, and our weatherman (and local celebrity) Guy Hagi says it's gonna stay hot for a few days, with a reduction of the trade winds that normally keep us so delightfully comfortable.


So, as "Punatics" know, you rearrange your schedule.  Early this morning, I decided to mow -- and it is not a crazy as it sounds.  With our nightly rain, and this kine sun, the grass grows an inch every day!  So, mowing is sort of a self-preservation strategy; better to do it now than wait 3-4 days until it cools back down, BUT, when its height makes it twice as hard.


While Phil was using the Super-Duper-Pooper-Scooper (the three corgyn gave him for Father's Day) he found and rescued this seven-inch long Praying Mantis in the grass.   I also included an artistically rendered mantis I created from a photo from my friend Dhiresha.

A little later we found another lovely white pineapple ready for harvest -- and how amazing to sink your teeth into a Haute Hot, locally grown white pineapple.   (Of course what follows are COOLER ways to enjoy fresh pineapple!!)

Prayers and More Art

My friend Dhiresha on Kona Side saw my blog and sent me a photo of a Praying Mantis who was visiting at her house -- on the railing just outside her apartment!  When I saw it I was IN LOVE with all the potential I saw and wanted to play with it and see what I could bring out, enhance and highlight.

Dhiresha has a great eye for composition, so I worked to maintain that quirky view, but bring out the mantis with an abstract twist.  Here's my first attempt, but I might want to try a couple other tricks.    What fun!

Praying Mantis Knees

Last evening, we found a visitor on our front porch.

We decided he might be Lunel's Spirit Insect -- here to guide her safely through the process of attending to her right knee, physical therapy, MRI, meeting with orthopedist, possible surgery and recovery.

At this point we are very pleased with our local Bay Clinic's Pahoa Family Practice, Pahoa Physical Therapy, and well-recommended orthopedic office-- everything within 30 miles of our house.  It is a process; we won't know much for a while, but will keep you posted.

Now, just look at THOSE knees, and they can climb up walls too!  So, we have made our visitor the mascot for the NIDINI Support Group (quasi Hawaiian for needy knee and pronounced the same.)  So far, there are offices in Ferndale and Eureka, CA as well as here on the Big Island in Pahoa!

So, a shout goes out to all of us ageless hippies-at-heart!  As we all deal with our KNEES -- Jerebob, Cheryl, Lunel.....AND....