It's only been a few days since I blogged about Kent.......of course, about Kent! but I am feeling that antsy, awkward, uncomfortable feeling that says time to blog again and try to sort out my thoughts that way......it truly helps me HEAPS to get it out onscreen where I can ramble until I find out what's going on inside me.  Does blogging work that way for you????

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The weather here is typical for our Winters, the rain is colder.......the temperatures have been in the high 40s or low 50s, so it's not uncomfortable, and I'm thankful it's not like last Winter when we had 20degree days with zero humidity......just HOW do you get zero humidity right on top of the Great Mother Ocean?????  I'm not certain, I only know I had to use my asthma inhaler to get through it.......I seem to need the humidity to breathe, no more trips to Arizona or southern California, I just can't breathe there.

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It's been on CNN that at least one house slid off the hill it was built on in Newport.....that's 25 miles north of where I live, and it's where I go for hula, prescriptions, food, etc.  They didn't say WHERE the house was that slid down the hill, but I know there will probably be more houses sliding off their hills because they give building permits where they really oughtn't......is that a word???  A few years ago 2 houses slid down a hill in Waldport, it happened in the middle of the night, and no one was hurt, the whole family actually got out safely, and thanks to the kindness of whatever local people that were awake when it happened, they saved some of their precious belongings.......later we found out the lot that slid had what they call "French" drains, which means it takes the water off your property and dumps it on your neighbor's.  At any rate, the permitting people let people buld on sand dunes here and the sand comes in the electrical outlets, etc.  They only do it for the money they get from all the permits necessary to build a house, and no one seems to give a fig about what's going to happen to that house in the future.  Bayshore development (built on sand dunes) has to have a small bulldozer with a scoop take the sand off the roads in the area.......if they don't do it every day there is no driving on those streets, they're full of sand.

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Do you have areas like this where no one should build but they do anyway?  Sometimes I think it's nonsense thoght up by local cronies who just want more money in their local budget and don't care WHAT happens to the people in the houses.

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Last night Kent called (you KNEW this was coming) and we talked for a couple of hours......it was lovely to just talk as long as we wanted without having to worry about a long distance bill or anything.......I wonder if his mother's phone bill shows WHO they are calling like my cell bill used to.......what will she think if/when she notices he is calling one number over and over?!  They don't get along particularly well, as most families, they have their usual disagreements that they've BEEN disagreeing about for years.  I know he is lonely and sort of at a loss without his normal routine of going to regular customers' yards and keeping them beautiful.  I even paid him to do my garden one Spring, he did one hell of a job.  That man works HARD!!!  He cleared up my garden (all by hand) and then went on to clear out my carport and weeded the neighbor's little flower patch "because I have to look at it".  I thought that was really sweet of him......and he coiled the unruly hose up that we all use and no one bothers to put back properly (including myself, I really need to TRY harder to be a good neighbor).  Altogether, he spent about 3-4 hours in my yard, and then he had a truck bed full of old vines, weeds, etc. that he had to pay to dump.  He has one HELLUVA work ethic.....when he works, he works.  He doesn't exercise to built muscles, he just uses his body for his work, and he gets all the muscles he needs.  The more I know about him, the more I LIKE the kind of person he is.

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Getting to hula is being VERY hard lately......it's hard to get my butt out the door when it's late afternoon and already getting dark.  When I drive home after hula sometimes the moon is out and it's a full moon right now so if the clouds play fair I'll get to see the moon all te way home......I DO love that!!!  And I love seeing my kumu hula and my hula sisters, I miss them terribly when I miss hula for a few weeks.......my kumu hula went to Alaska for the holidays because she had another grandbaby being born......so there were a few weeks I didn't have to worry about booting myself out the door after dark.....it's being REALLY hard to get back in the rhythm again.  I need to stop whining and JUST DO IT!!!

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Sorry if this blog is boring, it's what's going on with me lately, and I sincerely hope at least some of you can relate.

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Thank you for listening yet again, People.  Talk to me.