Text 17842, 115 rader
Skriven 2007-07-10 13:34:14 av hap newsom
     Kommentar till en text av Ruth Haffly
Ärende: RE: Hawayan Eyelands
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aloha Ruth!

-> -> weren't aware of their demise.  Some morph into other places; a not too
-> 
->  hn> It's sad but it happens (sigh).
-> 
-> Yes, but life goes on and we find other places to tempt our taste buds,
-> some even better than the late, lamented ones.
-> 
-> ->  hn> Yup, all the wood for this one was brought around the horn from 
the
-> ->  hn> eastern US and it even had a "widow's walk" around the top of the
-> ->  hn> roof! What a
-> ->  hn> shame for it to be torn down for any reason  much less for another
-> ->  hn> Haole hangout!
-> 
-> -> And that's what Turtle Bay is turning into--the North Shore version of
-> -> Ko'Olina.
-> 
->  hn> How tragically sad, to destroy the very thing that inspired you to
->  hn> come in the first place.
-> 
-> 
-> But it's not Waikiki-----------------------------yet!
-> 
Waikiki is nice if that's what you're looking for, I worked at a restaurant in 
Waikiki and as a surf instructor at the outrigger hotel (right across the
street 
from the International Marketplace)...and enjoyed it...but my best "living" was

out on the north shore before it was "discovered", I was "adopted" by a 
Hawaiian family and had many local friends that gave me a view of the 
Islands not often seen by Haole's....and now it's fast dissappearing 
alltogether...sad.

-> ->  hn> Pretty soon the entire Island will be one be tourist trap....then
-> ->  hn> there'll be no
->  hn> ->
-> ->  hn> real reason to go there at all anymore....Hawaii will have been
-> ->  hn> replaced with "beautifully landscaped grounds" and "gardens like
-> ->  hn> paradise".
-> 
-> -> On Oahu, no doubt but on most of the other islands, less of a chance.  
I
-> -> could see a Moonscape theme park on the Big Island tho. (G)
-> 
->  hn> They could certainly get away with it there!
-> 
-> 
-> Yes, and to cook the hot dogs, they could just stick them into the lava
-> flows. (G)  Burgers and such like would be tricker; by the time they
-> were cooked enough, the lava would have carried them a distance away.
-> 
-> 
-> ->  hn> Brings to mind the old Joni Mitchell song "they paved paradise and 
put
-> ->  hn> up a parking lot"!
-> 
-> -> And call it progress! (G)
-> 
->  hn> Not me!
-> 
-> Agreed!
-> 
-> ->  hn> With just the two of us we don't make a big mess very often and it
-> ->  hn> doesn't take a whole lot of work to stay on top of it....most of the
-> ->  hn> time (grin)!
-> 
-> -> If I get a good head of steam going in the kitchen, who knows what is
-> -> liable to emerge, with who knows how many dirty dishes in its wake.
-> 
->  hn> Well that does happen here too...but my kitchen is so small that
->  hn> cleanup has to happen as I go along!
-> 
-> As I usually do; most of the time it's putting the dishwasherable stuff
-> into the washer and leaving the hand washes (generally few) until I
-> reach a break point in whatever I'm doing.  I've got a small kitchen
-> too. This morning dishwasher stuff went into one sink (for the next
-> load, the washer was running) and hand wash into the other.  By the time
-> the dishwasher had finished the full cycle, I still didn't have a dozen
-> hand washs.
-> 
-> ->  hn> I never pay attention to them....they've produced so many of em 
that
-> ->  hn> there's really no collector value to em other than that of simply
-> 
-> -> I'm just saving one of state--and the Lewis & Clark nickel series with
-> -> both mint marks.  Just something else to add to my oddiments of coins
-> -> collection.
-> 
-> ->  hn> having them.....on the other hand I'd love to find a 1916 (D) dime!
-> 
-> -> What's the signifigance of that one?
-> 
->  hn> It's very rare and very valuable!
-> 
-> About as rare as an upsidedown Jenny stamp probably.
-> 
-> 
pretty good analogy.

-> -> BTW, I'll be putting Fido on pause, probably Monday night for 3 weeks.
->  hn> ->
->  hn> Have fun! We'll see you when you get back!
-> 
-> Looking forward to it; this is the last mail run before we leave out
-> tomorrow morning.  I would have done it sooner but for an unexpected
-> trip down to the hospital at Fort Stewart.
-> 
-> 
See ya when you get back!
chat with you soon
hap 
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