Soggy Doggies

Here is teh photo of the official Soggy Doggise in our party wagon going… where? Not sure. Can you recognize me? I’m the good-looking one with soggy hair.

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Thursday was moving man day

Even tho our new house will not be done for about another 60 days, my friend Michael went down to Lowes and found a deal on 2 refrigerators. They were $1400 units marked down 50% because someone changed their mind. These are da kine that have the freezer on the bottom and the regular part on top. Makes so much more sense. The catch to this deal was that when you buy them at this rate, you have to take them away that day. I tried to wait for the Lowes rental truck, but then found out that it was occupied all day. Then, I called around and finally found a friend who had a truck to loan me. Then, it was call around to see if anyone could go up to where our new house was being built to help me unload.

Well, eventually, I just decided to drive up there at around 3:00pm and hope for the best. I had to unload it with just a little help from another woman who was the agent that sold me the house. We settled on storing it in the model home’s garage, since our house was not yet ready.

So what I did differently today was to be a one man fridge moving company. Yadee yada yada…..

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My workout today

Was throwing kids into the pool. My neighbors kids, 9 and 6 were playing in the pool today at our complex and when I got in, it was, “Oh throw me, throw me!” So that was my little workout today, throwing kids around in the pool and putting them over my shoulder and spinning them around like they do in the WWF. I never watch it, but have occasionally glimpsed them spinning each other around and then throwing each other onto the mats. Looks like a lot of fun. Even the fake pain.

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One of the few things that my ex-girlfriend

and I agreed on 11 years ago was that we wanted a natural birth for our son. He was 2 weeks late when we finally went into the hospital and the midwife told her that if she did not give birth soon, they would have to induce labor or a c-section.
After three long days of labor, our son was finally born on Oct 24, 1994 at about 12:07 am. I got to catch him when he came into the world and it was very fitting that as his father, I would welcome him into the world. All dads should do this.

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OK, Feng shui experiment for my group

Here is a feng shui (Chinese geomancy) remedy for all those who want to enhance the wealth and career aspect of their lives. I am uploading two photos of waterfalls going in different directions. The experiment involves printing out either one of the photos and putting it by your front door. If anyone has a wall besides the front door, that would be a good place to put it the photo. Make sure that the photo is situated in such a way that it shows the waterfall FLOWING INTO YOUR HOUSE. This is a sign of abundance coming into your home.

Print out a nice color version of this photo and try it for a week. I would be very interested in hearing from all the members who try this on what results they get. If there are any unexpected windfalls of cash, or new career opportunities that show up. Another feng shui consultant said that when you put the photo up, it is good to let your guides and angels know exactly what you want, and not make them guess. If you want a new career or better job, ask for that. If you want an unexpected windfall of money, ask for that too. Or, maybe you want your mattress to explode and all the cash hidden rains down on you!!!

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Resources

A good place to start looking at Intentional Communities is at the official webstie, www.ic.org. You can subscribe to their magazine or just read articles online. We subscribed to it about 8 years ago and I learned so much about communities of the past, which ones survived and those that did not and why. And there was very good coaching on how to start one now and what criteria to set. The most important thing is to get a core group together with a common vision. The two greatest obstacles to maintaining a community is “creating consensus” and (not surprisingly) dogs. Those were the big deal breakers in communities today.

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Yesterday...

Well, when I started this new task yesterday, I had to main options and it looks like “starting a new internet business” won out. I talked with a friend who has a budding business in Hawaii selling sarongs at local stores. He has a special niche and I asked him if he would be willing to sell them over the internet since my wife and I design websites.
This goal has really sparked some movement in me. Tues nite, we went to an internet marketing presentation where they urged us to sign up for a training class (that we had already taken) and their primary pharse was, “take action today.” That is a good paradigm because I have been contemplating starting more businesses over the internet, but have not gotten off the couch to do so.
So today, we begin the task of designing the interface, setting up hosting, shopping carts and credit card over the internet. That should be challenging since we have not done that degree of website setup before.
Another different thing I did yesterday was changing where I sit at the dinner table. We have a very good friend we share dinner with at least once a week. We go up to her home, prepare a gourmet meal and then sit on her balcony that looks down the coast onto the ocean and we always sit in the same places. Last nite, I sat where our friend Barbara usually sits and has her sit where I usually sit. Just a minor change, but who knows what will come of it.
A hui ho and I hope you all make some big or small changes in your behavior. But I also applaud those who do not want to change and are happy with their current results. Whoever that one person might be… LOL

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Insanity

By now, most people have probably heard Einstein’s definiation of insanity, “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a differern result.” I have heard that and yesterday, it hit me that in order to see a change in my life, I will choose to do something different each day. Today, I will either invent the “left-handed fork” or start a new internet business.
This might even compliment my membership in a secret do-gooders society that is supposed to be a secret. Right Jean?

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New ID Card

Here is the ID card I craeted for our secret society. Of course, I am using an alias and this is what a Hawaiian shaman told me to use if I was to change my name to Hawaiian. You might have to click on the entry to see the full sized id card. Email me a photo, kunahuna@hotmail.com, and I will make up an id card for you also. If others have a better design for an id card, I am perfectly willing to use theirs.

Perhaps we should have a SSODG ID card contest.

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Scuba certification

Yeah, about 3 years ago, I got certified. Not only did I get my certificate, I wanted to have someone I knew teach me in almost a private setting. Well, someone in my church in Hawaii showed up and said, I can certify you and even tho I was supposed to do my first dives in a pool, or pool like conditions, my friend took me down to the City of Refuge on the Big Island and we did our first dives there. What a blast. I was very familiar with the City of Refuge and there was a formation in the lava rock along the shoreline that looks like 2 steps into the ocean. It was called, 2 Step. Diving in Hawaii spoils you cause it is so warm and the visibility is so sharp. I have only gone diving in Hawaii and I guess I would not want to dive in really cold conditions that require a lot of extra equipment. That might make me a weenie, but so be it. Do they have a Scuba Weenie patch?

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Life Plan as a road map

I can’t remember who it was a few days ago who wrote that having a life plan was like having a road map for your life. I like the road map analogy but with slight modifications. I shall combine the road map analogy and add that having a road map let’s you see that there are many routes to the same place.

I feel that for most of us, we are all going to the same place and can take many different roads to get there. There is usually a safe, straight route directly there that involves little risk. Then, there are the rougher routes over unpaved roads that are more challenging, might require a 4×4, some camping and more pit stops along the way to change tires and all that. There are also the more circuitous routes that might take one by lakes, over mountains and such with much more scenery and a longer road with more twists and turns to get to the final destination.

Some feel that the final destination is the most important goal. I personally feel that it is the journey getting there that is more important and having some fun and adventure along the way makes the journey worthwhile. I’d like to stop at all the good roadside diners and sample the cuisine from different regions along the way. Get out and hike in the mountains or swim in a remote lake along the way. In fact, I did that last Fall when my wife and I drove from Sacramento to Seattle. I stopped at one of my favorite destinations, Mt Shasta, along the way and took a dip in a nearby lake. There is no one road that is better than all the other roads. Some raods will take us to unintended places, like jail or a hospital, for ahwile. But having the map, or widsom and maturity, will let each of us see the obstacles that are coming when we choose one road over another. So my wish is that everyone chooses a road filled with adventure, fun and finds a good driving partner to share the ride.

Oh, and mke sure you keep an eye out for rainbows along the way.

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Rambo Cat

We had to leave our beloved Spot back in CA when we moved here in 2004. He is staying with his buds in Orinda, CA right now. I tried to teach Spot to be a movie star and the new Rambo. He just laid down and licked himself. He gave me that, "I'm a lover, not a fighter" look.

We miss Spot very much and plan to ask him if he wants to move to Hawaii with us.

Updates on our House

The exterior walls are up and waiting for the sheetrock to go in. That's our little new Outback that we brought back from the Mainland in January. If you notice, there is a door on the side of the garage that does not go anywhere. They have agreed to put another door into the sother side of the garage that leads to a cement path leading to our front door.


Meantime, we are having our dinners on the lanai and expecting sunsets like these for when we live up in Waikoloa.


A hui ho....
You can have a house like this too, Rolf.

Offering to Pele

Last week, we decided it was time to make another offering to Madame Pele at Volcanoes National Park. Here we are at one of the museums that overlook the main crater of the volcano. This one is dormant now, but there are vents that are constantly releasing lava that flows into the ocean down near the shoreline. We are currently at the 4000 ft level near the top of the park. We drove down to the rim of the crater where there are steam vents oozing out steam and giving us direct access to Madame Pele.


Here I am down on the rim making my offering of gin to Pele. You can see other steam vents off in the distance.

If you stay until after dark and drive the 45 minutes down to the coastline, you can sometimes be treated to a view of the lava flowing into the ocean. (Or, you can download the photos from the Volcanoes National Park website).