SANTA FE SUNSETS from our back portale...
Wednesday, June 1, 2022
Monday, October 14, 2019
Kauai to Santa Fe
It has been about 5 years since my last posting. After living on Kauai for almost 20 years, we sold our place and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. We have been in Santa Fe for a year or so and the transition from beach every day to living in a double adobe house at 8000 feet above sea level has been...interesting....more later...
Monday, June 29, 2015
Friday, June 26, 2015
Saturday, June 13, 2015
41
41 years ago Jane and I got married in Nova Scotia..we drove from Florida in my VW van and camped the whole month or so that we were gone. I picked Nova Scotia because I had been there a year or so before I met Jane..I was surfing every beach from South Beach in Miami to Prince Edward Island in the Canadian Maritimes..I thought a spot in Nova Scotia was especially beautiful and commented to my buddy Dave, "wow, if I ever find a girl to marry, I am going to bring her here and get married on the beach"...and lucky for me, I found Jane and she joined the crazy train that has been life with me...I love her with all my heart and thank the stars above that somehow lined up to allow me to be so lucky these last 41 years....
Tuesday, May 5, 2015
TIHOTI TATTAU MASTER
Our friend from French Polynesia, Tihoti, is on Kauai for a couple of weeks booked solid with tattoo appointments. He called the other day and we figured out a good time for him to take a break and come over for paina (dinner) and a catch up. I picked him up last night after his last tattoo appointment and we had a great time. He has done most of my tattoos and all of jane's..We got some of them done at his place on Huahine, French Polynesia...and some done here on Kauai when he was visiting..I cooked mojo shrimp on the barbie and Jane made a her famous caesar salad, grilled polenta and yellow rice with garden peas...and homemade orange sorbet flavored with oranges from the yard..Tihoti has a boy and a girl that are living with their mom in Australia..no schools in Huahine so they all moved to Australia via Northfolk Island..wife pauline is a descendant of Fletcher Christian and her family lived on Pitcarin Island until they were moved to Northfolk Island...Relatives live in Australia where there are good schools for the kids. Tihoti moved with the family but didn't last long in Australia..too cold for him..so he moved back to Huahine..and then to live on and clear his father's land on Tahaa..He comes to Kauai to tattoo every year to earn money to live on and send to Pauline and the kids..and gets to see them a few times a year until her can build a place on Tahaa and the kids are out of school..Tihoti is one of the nicest people I have ever met..a very spiritual, gentle soul..I have know him for 15 years and have never seen him wearing shoes..flip flops..or anything on his feet...a pareau and maybe a tee shirt...here's a pic I took last night at dinner...which profile does Tihoti fit when TSA screens him ????
©bobpolli
"TIHOTI"
TATTAU MASTER
Wednesday, April 29, 2015
SIX MONTHS
Flew to Oahu yesterday to get to Kapi'olani Women's Center for Jane's six month breast MRI and 3D mammogram..long day starting at 5am and getting back home at around 9pm or so...the test results were all good but we will get more specific readings and analysis in a few days..We left the hospital and went to the mall and had a nice lunch with a battery of drinks..and then Jane got to shop for a few hours before we had to get in the traffic to the airport..she is scheduled for the same tests in six months...
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