Good news: I very, very infrequently need to put on long pants.
Bad news: I have to shave my legs every day!
Good news: All day, every day and nearly every night, we have all doors and windows open, letting in the fresh island breeze and multitudinous birdsong.
Bad news: When the grounds people come - with their leaf blowers and ride-on mowers and hedge trimmers - it is so loud!
Good news: Less than a 10 minute walk from our house is a long nearly secret, often empty stretch of lovely beach, perfect for the dogs to swim and play in the gentle surf. In the mornings we often see turtles (honu) popping up their little heads.
Bad news: It's no brief excursion to take the girls down to the beach for a run and a dip. We walk down, they play around for half hour/45 mins, we walk back, then they need to be "showered" (hosed off, which they think is a game) which takes another 10 minutes, then more or less towel dried, but they're still pretty wet so they have to stay out on the lanai'i for a while. It's exhausting!
Good news: Whether it's a day we've made it to the beach for a little R&R, or on a recent drive up to Lahaina, or out on a Whale Watching trip, we have seen so many whales. Jumping, spouting, rolling, diving, fin slapping, from full breach to just a nose above the water line. Incredibly close in, on the far horizon, and everything in between. So many. So wonderful.
Bad news: Your eyes start to get really tired after a while of watching the see for signs of whales, what with the sun reflecting and the constant ocean motion.....
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| Admittedly, this is not my photo. However, we have see this LOTS! (and that is Maui, very close to our house, in the background) |
Bad news: Gas prices are now up to $4.50/gallon. Ouch.
Good news: Our little box car is getting something like 30 miles/gallon and we just don't drive it very far. I'd say we fill the tiny little 10 gallon tank every other week. There are days the car never leaves the driveway.
Good news: We are continuing to meet new people and make new friends. It took us three months, but we finally threw our first party (an Oscar Not-so-Gala). Lots of food, lots of fun, a little competition with prizes and cash pools.
Bad news: They are not our old friends, whom we miss and think of often.
Waaah, those photos make me so sad! I miss you all. Steve was just saying we need to plan our trip to Hawaii with "the guys". Gas here is about $4.30, so you aren't losing too much in that department. Our big news here is that the city hired The Gopher Guy (www.thegopherguy.com) to come and trap all the gophers at Prince. It was mighty exciting....
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