Mokihana's Garden

One of my favorite blogs is Chickens in the Road written and photographed by Suzanne McMinn. It’s a fantastic combination of farm life, chickens, recipes, humor, and great photography, I’m always glad to see a new post in my feeds.

This video from Suzanne gives me a smile every single time I see it, and I’ve watched it over and over again. Suzanne graciously gave me her permission to put it here so that you folks could enjoy it too.

Be sure your volume is up so you can hear the hoofbeats. OMG, this is so dang cute! I love the bouncing!! Who says sheep can’t play tag! Enjoy! When you’re pau watching the video, go enjoy the rest of Suzanne’s awesome blog!

Back on da road again after stopping to watch the fisherman for a bit. This part of the trip marks the end of our time in Yellowstone, and I must admit I was feeling kinda wai maka about the whole thing. Our trip through was so wonderful but I longed for more time to explore this stunningly beautiful area of the world. Doing this road trip has been good for me, because I have the chance to re-live the wonderful memories we made there. I know we’ll be back! (more…)

It’s too hot to think, so I’ll just re-post this again from 2007. Even I had fun reading it. Embarrassing, though.

Usually when it looks like we’re gonna get a freeze, we bring in all my tropical plants. Into the dining room. Which then becomes a solarium of sorts. Or maybe a green house. Or maybe a room where Nolemana tells me it’s too crowded, too full of plants and “are you sure you really need to do this?” (more…)

Ho, long time no update, yeah? This is why. Like I said before, we’d saved my Canon camera memory card to take the video of Old Faithful with; I also had my old Nikon, and Nolemana had his Olympus and his small Panasonic.

My Canon had no memory left, so we started using whatever camera was the most handy, and so in trying to make some kind of consecutive narrative here, I had to try figure out which photo came next according to the time stamps on the photos. Because we weren’t nearly as organized as we were on our Montana trip this year. It took me a lot longer than I’d thought, because the other problem was that we forgot to set the correct time stamps before we left; and of course there were the time changes, too.
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K’den. Da next entry foa da road trip stay taking long time cuz I trying foa organize photos between chree different memory cards! In da meantime, get dis:

Outside my window…..it’s dark but I hear my dove cooing. (more…)

Okay. I stay sitting hea wit wai maka to da max. Made my day!

Outside my window… the sun is shining, and I’m watching birds coming to the feeders, and Oregon Big-Leaf Maple leaves dancing in the breeze. (more…)

(Warning: Photos may be disturbing.)

Hearing a loud thump, I race to the front window where I think the sound is coming from, and as I feared, you have hit the window, hard. Was something chasing you that you would fly so fast into the window and instead of finding escape you found glass? Or did you think you saw the sky, open and free before you? (more…)

This is just wonderful! Mahalo to my auntie and uncle who forwarded it to me.

Watch the full episode. See more PBS Presents.

I had so much fun doing the first video that I decided to make another one. This one is of the trip that my wonderful daughters and I made on Mother’s Day this year. (more…)

Thanks to Debra at Sparrowgrass who helped me be able to do this, may I present for your enjoyment Nā Manu I Ka Nahele, or, The Birds From the Forest (outside my office window) with one tiny hamajang (text wea not supposed to be). OMG. My blog neva going be da same! (more…)

K’den. This time I’m not gonna say much, because the videos will speak for themselves. But do me a favor and turn your volume down so you don’t get blasted out by my whoo-hooing. I sound stupit. Sigh. (more…)

So da humu wen get his latté, right? But Mike thought da pooah fishie stay kinda lonely, so he wen get one idea. First, I gotta explain dat when Mike gets one idea, den watch out! (more…)

So eh. Remembah dis humuhumunukunukuapua‘a I wen knit foa Hawaiian Beanz Coffee Shop, my home away from home? Everybody ova dea loves him.

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The other evening Nolemana and I were driving home from town along Tillstrom Road, which is probably our most frequently travelled road. That’s the road we take to get to Portland, to Clackamas, to church, and most everywhere else heading makai. I much prefer this road to highways, because it winds through the hilly forested areas around where we live and is semi-rural, similar to where we live. (more…)

A couple of weeks ago I stopped in at my neighborhood New Seasons grocery store. Well, food and all kine da kine, too. Walking through the produce aisle, something gold caught my eye. No, it wasn’t 14 karat anykine, but to me it was moa bettah. (more…)

K’den. Back to Yellowstone. Warning: If you don’t like water and steam as well as lots of photos of it, turn back now. You have been warned! (more…)

…I like living in a semi-rural area. The other afternoon Nolemana and I were on our way somewhere, and we saw something that just gave me the biggest smile! I couldn’t pull over right away, but when I could, I let another car pass, then backed up so that I could take some photos. Why? (more…)

Kikue said she was surprised that I hadn’t posted photos of goats in da road. I didn’t have my camera with me that day, but suddenly I remembered that I’d snapped off a quick shot with my cell phone!

So for you, Kikue… mahalo foa da remindah! This is just down da road from our hale. Life in da country… I love it!