Tidbits

So this post is going to be a giant mind dump, in no particular order, of what has been going on here.  Warning: lots of pictures.

It seems as though the past few weeks have flown by but I can't really recall anything significant that we seem to have accomplished.  We are getting a little more comfortable here and starting to finally put our house together.  We are also finally starting to establish a daily routine which is good because I am completely lost without some sort of structure in the day.

If you have ever been to Maui you know that shopping is limited, especially in the home goods department.  You have every store under the sun that end in "mart"and Pier 1.  Everyone told me to scour Craigslist because of the high turn over on the island.  I check CL regularly but let me tell you...people want two arms and a leg for JUNK.  Stuff that would be on the Spokane CL for $10 pr less, people here want $50++++!!  It is absolutely crazy.  Needless to say I haven't found much of anything on CL.  I guess I will wait for Pier 1 to have their after Thanksgiving and Christmas sales and pick up the remaining items we need.

Found this cool Fox Tail Fern at Home Depot.

Franklin re-injured his the repaired leg about ten days ago.  His leg was HUGE and the swelling lasted for about five days.  We had our first trip to the vet since being here.  I was really hoping to skip the vet for at least a year given all the vet trips we made leading up to the move.  The outcome of his eight gazillion dollar trip was that he essentially suffered a partial tear of his hamstring and basically needed a lot of drugs and to lay low.  So, that is what we are doing.  

Not a good photo but his leg was about three times the size of the of the "good" leg.

Injured dogs only get to hang out at the beach.  No play for the big guy.

The rest of the gang is doing great with the exception of Cooper who seemes to have woken up with hot spots.  There are a enough home remedies I can try so I think we will be able to avoid a trip to the vet with him.  Ellee Mae is still lazy and Paisley is still wild.  Not much has changed with those ladies.  And for those of you wondering about the cats, well, they love the warm, sunny weather and sleeping on the tile floor in front of the sliders.  Milo and Jimmy rarely venture away and always seem to be around.  Lilly comes home about once a week to visit us and the rest of the time she spies on us from a secret hiding spot that we have yet to discover.  

Her Granny sent her a new toy.  She was pretty thrilled about it because it had a squeeker.

Keeper of the ball.

Dog of shame.  She rolls in the sand every.single.time. she gets in the water.

Jimmy has settled in nicely.  Typical day in this cats life.

I have been slow to getting back into cooking and baking.  It seems like more of a hassel here.  For one everything is so expensive.  Flour is around $6 a pound and eggs are about $5.50 a dozen.  Butter runs about the same, so you get the idea.  The other hassel is that you have to seal everything up right away or else the bugs come.  Perhaps I am just lazy but it takes as much time to drag everything out as it does to make and bake the items.  I did make snickerdoodles the other day for my dad and realized that I did not have any mixing bowls and that hand mixers are hunks of junk.  Oh, I also made Ron banana bread but had to make it in a pie pan because I realized that I didn't have a bread pan.  He doesn't know the difference.

Banana Bread.

Most of the weekends are spent at the beach.  We go to the "white people's" beach where all the tourists are at.  It feels more like home than the local areas.  In the more local areas, we tend to be the only white folks and often get mistaken for lost tourists.  That is generally not a good scenario to have happen.

Saw this little guy right at the shoreline last weekend in Napili.  He was SO cute.  Spent at least 3 hours watching him.

In other interesting news, a paddle boarder was bitten by a tiger shark over the weekend at the beach closest to our house.  He didn't die but was injured badly.  Don't worry we don't swim in that water anyway---it extremely deep right off the shore with lots of rocks.  

Oh and if you want a simple, light dinner or lunch, try this recipe.  I make it in large quantities once a week for Ron to nibble on for lunch.  He gives it five stars.  Luckily for me it is super easy.

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There you have it.  Have a great rest of the week!

Courtney