It's understandable - when moving to new home - most all of us tend to forget to do things while tending to the major tasks of packing. One of those things is typically transferring utilities into your own name - although this tends to be more common with those moving into a rental home. A month
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12/30/2011
Rolling into the parking lot of a local high where I go for early morning runs, I noticed some activity - a couple cars and some kids laughing and acting silly. At 4am I am wondering - do their parents know they are out?! Anyway - I slowly pull up to see what's going on - just to be sure and for
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12/28/2011
Been on island time for a while and decided to sleep in after a long flight home. Took me a while to get to sleep because of the time difference from Arizona to Hawaii. But finally Zzzzzzz....! All of a sudden ... "chirp". Chirp. CHRIPPPPPP!! Arrgggg...... Let me just say, we follow the reco
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12/26/2011
So it's no secret that I love chocolate. I probably eat more than I should! I've been lucky enough to live in some places that have excellent chocolate - Germany and well, Hawaii! But I also love fish - and there are two things I always do when I am in Hawaii - go to the Big Island Candy Store
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12/26/2011
Not much to say today except Nerry Christmas to everyone - hope you enjoy the day and enjoy whoever it is in your life that you are with! English: Merry ChristmasFrench: Joyeux NoelGerman: Froehliche Weihnachten Hawaian: Mele Kalikimaka ame Hauoli Makahiki Hou!Italian: Buone Feste NatalizieSamoan
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12/25/2011
Back home in Hilo, Hawaii has sure been a treat with all the color and unique ways Hawaiians spend Christmas. Lately I have been enjoying looking at all the different Christmas trees - some, at a relative's house - are really local - decorated with Hawaiian slippas of all different colors, other
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12/21/2011
I got back home to Hawaii a few days ago and it's taken me this long to catch back up with blogging - but that's island time for me and besides, it's pretty hard to sit in front of a computer being here on the island with family and well, the ocean right outside my door. It's also Christmas time
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12/19/2011
Here are holiday events happening around Tucson today! "A Tucson Pastorela", Borderlands Theater at 7:30 p.m. "Hope, Light and Peace" with the Arizona Repertory Singers, 7:30 p.m. at the Desert View Performing Arts Center. "Christmas with Aaron Neville", Fox Tucson Theatre downtown Tucson, 7:30
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12/15/2011
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America ! .... Driving home today, I took a minute to pull over and capture what I saw with my cell phone - blue skies, snow capped mountains - and the American Flag off in th
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12/15/2011
It's begining to look a lot like Christmas! Tucson events happening around town today include: "A Tucson Pastorela" at Leo Rich Theatre in the Tucson Convention Center, 260 S. Church Ave. with the Borderlands Theater group at 7:30 p.m. Cost is $6-$10. Borderlands makes us laugh and puts us
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12/14/2011