Young'n Breach

Just saw a young humpback breach 2X only 5 yards off our sea cliffs.  First activity today!

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Last House Standing - Or Not?

Lava appears to be threatening the last house standing in the Royal Gardens development.  Fresh video shows lava just 150 yards away from Jack Thompson's Royal Gardens property.  Listen to Jack speak about madden Pele.  New Report   Video

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Faux Crown Molding a Success

We finally finished the faux crown molding in the guest bedroom and it looks great!

We used less expensive chair molding and placed a rail on the ceiling and on the walls, leaving space between the two.  We placed the rail lower on the wall then the ceiling.  Finally we painted the rails and the space between them white.  The final appearance is faux crown molding!  

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Noisey Night - The Whales were Active

After a noisy whale night, Scott and I got our cups of coffee and sat out on the lawn chairs to see what whale activity we could see at 6AM.  It was a chilly 67degrees and I had my hoodie on and a lap blanket.  We did see some blows from about 4 different whales.  There were aways out, but their bodies were visible without binoculars.  We will try again at lunchtime.

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Largest Whale of the Season

With only seconds to go in the first half of the 44th Super Bowl, we thought we heard a door slam next door.  Turned out to be a whale breach.  We went outside to witness, I believe a male humpback, breach about 5 times with the last his best!  He leaped nose first high into the air turned almost 360 degrees with fins flapping in the air!  Scott had turned his back to go into the house and missed it.  This was by far the largest whale I have seen off the sea cliffs!  Cool!

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Blog Give Aways

Something I recently learned about is the Blog Give Aways.  I guess it is a marketing tool to get a your blog noticed and/or sell.

Click on Low Tide High Style to see what I mean.  You can win a pair of earrings (left) listed on another internet site  White Flower Farmhouse

All very interesting....

PS Looks like a white-out for Low Tide High Style check it out!

Photo from:  White Flower Farmhouse

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15 Minutes of Fame!

Our solar contractor has selected our house to hang on their office wall and to show other home owners the benefits of potovolatic systems!  How fun!

The cost of this system was not cheap!  Thank goodness for the State and Federal rebates!!!  It feels good to get about 1/2 of our electric free from the sun.  Our electric bill before the PV system was about $140-$180/month.  Our first month on the PV system was $60.

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Write and Self-Publish Your Own Book!???!

The link below is a great Blog posting if you have ever considered such an adventure!  I am keeping it my list of things to do!

http://tarletonink.blogspot.com/2010/02/how-to-publish-your-book-diy-pod-yyc.html

Lulu, one of the many self publishing websites.  Who knew?!

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New "Burger Joint" in Town

Hilo Burger Joint apparently serving grass fed local Hawaii Island beef!  We plan to check it out this week.  Will post a review.  

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First Year Anniversary Celebration!

We popped a bottle of bubbly to celebrate our first year living in Uli Kia Hale!

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