Excellent news! -And don't forget to tell us how horrible all that sun, ocean and whatnot are, so we don't feel jealous, or worse, all come to visit!

River

You are in your rental home on the big island now?

Was your flight to Oahu first then a connection or straight from

California to the biggest Island ? ?

I hope you will manage some neighborhood photos and upload them here in a River's Paradise Album.

Remember, the whole landscape will be alien to us. So any scene of green, skyline, your grounds.

Thanks

Moi

Some may say, "Why?".

I say, , , , , , um - I forget.

Beware the 2 Step Snakes.

Beware the 1 Step Centipedes.

Until my PC arrives and we turn on the internet I won't be loading anything.

River

Well just to keep you up on Current Events:

OPERA NEWS --

the only important news that means anything

Renee Fleming sung the USA National Anthem at the Super Bowl

Anna Netrebko sung the Olympic Anthem at the opening of the Sochi Olympics

And have you ordered your olimpic fail tea shirt yet?

Aloha

River

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Mon Feb 10, 2014 3:42 pm And have you ordered your olimpic fail tea shirt yet?

Aloha

River

The UGLIEST and I mean absolutely UGLIEST sweater or hoodie that the USA Athletes are wearing sold out in seconds on the internet.

Thankfully, I saved my eyes and my pocketbook from the horror.

Juiced fish poured over steaming hot oatmeal. Hmmm...

talula wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2014 5:17 am Juiced fish poured over steaming hot oatmeal. Hmmm...

Everyone should know that the fish is supposed to be in bite-size chunks if it is to be served over oatmeal. Juiced fish goes into soups and stews....

One of my coworkers who decided to have "happy time" and overindulged with the Saki at the final banquet for a large technical conference in South Korea described the next days breakfast buffet with some dread (now that he got back in the USA).

It started with rice and soup and fish and raw egg yolks (for some reason I remember that because he looked queazy when he said it), and there was sushi and cooked fish and other things westerners don't think of as breakfast food.

There was nothing like toast or sugary cereal or donuts or croissants or sausage or bacon or anything like that stuff we westerners call comfort food.

My bowels quiver in fear at the thought of fish on oatmeal.

Dave (imported) wrote: Wed Feb 12, 2014 1:03 pm One of my coworkers who decided to have "happy time" and overindulged with the Saki at the final banquet for a large technical conference in South Korea described the next days breakfast buffet with some dread (now that he got back in the USA).

It started with rice and soup and fish and raw egg yolks (for some reason I remember that because he looked queazy when he said it), and there was sushi and cooked fish and other things westerners don't think of as breakfast food.

There was nothing like toast or sugary cereal or donuts or croissants or sausage or bacon or anything like that stuff we westerners call comfort food.

I'm getting hungry just reading about your co-worker's breakfast. I've lived in both Japan and Korea and his sounds like a proper Japanese version, not Korean. The raw egg is supposed to be mixed into the steaming hot rice, where it cooks and then holds the rice together. Much better tasting and much better for you than all of the sugary things that Americans seem to crave.