Hawaii has been blessed with more rain than the ground knows what to do with. After more than 40 days (and nights) of rain we feel as if we should have begun to imitate Noah. Just as those thoughts began to be entertained, the sun re-emerged from behind the clouds. There was a lot of squinting and scrambling for sunshades all around the islands.
For the record, Oahu has received more rain in the first three months of the year than our annual average. Yet, we in the midst of all this water we are still being advised to conserve. It seems that it takes about 20 years for much of the water to seep through the soil, rocks and whatever else is under the ground to the aquifers. We learn the most interesting things!
Another interesting aspect to all the rain is that the ground outside our home has turned from its usual brownish shade to a lovely green color. So instead of wading through water to the car we wade through a jungle of knee high weeds and stuff to the car. It's been too wet for the mower to be used. Life in paradise keeps us on our toes.
Current events - well this weekend Phil and I are running in the Ford Island "fun run." Actually Phil is running, I'm probably going to walk most of the way. The course is around Ford Island (which suffered in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor due to many of our battleships being anchored around it) and is about a 6 mile jaunt. It should be an interesting trip around as we pass by the moorings for many of the ships hit on that day including the resting place of the USS Arizona. We will also pass the historic Battleship Missouri Memorial - on her decks the allied forces accepted the unconditional surrender of the Japanese thus ending World War II. We are both looking forward to the run and to the views offered during the run. Hopefully the weather will be dry!
Well, that's enough of this for tonight. I'll try to post again after Saturday's festivities.
Thursday, April 06, 2006
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Oh goody! I get to be the first to post! I better type fast in case someone else is thinking the same thing!! I am so happy you have decided to dust your blog off and get it up and running!! We want more pictures!! :) We have had a couple of warm/dry days here this week... I have been warned NOT to get my hopes up since Spring doesn't come till after the 4th of July here! Help!
Awesome... have fun. Look forward to hearing about your weekend... and pictures?
love you,
donna
Phil & Sandy,
How fun to see pics and hear how things are on the island. Aren't weather patterns funny? Y'all are drowning in rain and we're trying to recover from a huge drought. Hope you have fun in the run today. I ran my first 5K two weeks ago -- it was hard! But I'm glad I did it. May even try it again someday. Keep posting, it's addicting!
Love ya!
shell
As Shelley said, we need some of that moisture! It just keeps threatening around here, thunder, wind, etc and then here comes the sun! That run does sound wonderful. I might have walked with you if I was there! but Ron certainly would have run with Phil. Send pictures please!!
~marilyn
All this talk of dry weather makes me wish I were in TEXAS! hehe... not really... but Hawaii would be nice! How was the run? Did you gobble down the free popcicles afterwards?! I always thought that was the BEST part of that run. :)
OK, so where are the pictures????
~marilyn
Way to go! Donna told me about your doing the run. Wish I had the energy to do that. It's all I can do to get out and walk--has to be above 65 degrees and we haven't had much of that lately. Maybe this week. Also, looking forward to pictures.
Love,
Brenda
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