and thanks to all of you who prayed or sent best wishes, we had a great airline flight , the best weather I've ever seen enroute, and we landed on runway 20 (southbound) which is really unusual
little bit turbulent and wing-dippy and bouncy on short final and the landing, but these pilots flying for Hawaiian Airlines, KNOW how to handle it
we have internet, I say, We Have Internet, WE HAVE BYC !!!!!!
took the gal from Oceanic Time-Warner almost two hours to trace down the glitches in the lines and the wiring and the boxes, but now have great service
before I die of BYC and internet deprivation ....
have read everything now, all caught up ... hurray for the peeps reporting successes, condolences to those reporting disasters
here on Maui we had some rain intermittently yesterday (needed it, looks like another drought year), pineapple express has been sending all the water Maui needs, over to the Pacific NW
and rained early this morning (we were up at 4 AM local time, still on WA diurnals), and for a little bit midmorning, freshened everything
Mary says three of my chicks from last year, survived and are laying regularly, but to her dismay they aren't real friendly; she wanted chickens to come running up the driveway to greet her when she arrives home after work or studies
I haven't been down to check on them yet; things to do up here at main house, plus a LOT of mosquitoes down at Mary's, and I react strongly to the bites, they just LOVE to bite me
speaking of bites and stings ... honeybees aren't that bad, I'd rather not get stung by a yellow jacket (and we have a cavity roof full of them) but they don't usually seek people out to zap; but the worst are the "ground bees", small black ... probably truly wasps ... which live in underground tunnels like ants do, and those things are aggressive AND very powerful stingers; late hubby got stung six times, wound up in hospital, almost died ..... I got stung by just ONE and was sick for five days