Mahalo, Adrienne (as well as some other pics)

Here's the innards of a parcel we got today:



Adrienne, thank you so much (mahalo a nui loa) from our family to yours! Words cannot properly express how chuffed (pleased/blessed, in this case) we feel by your precious gifts to us.




This picture garnered a compliment from our resident photographer talent, Teenie, when she was looking through pictures on the kid's camera today. I caught this bugger sliming his/her way across our front porch yesterday. Blech! But, so cool, 'cos that is the first time I've seen one out of his/her shell trudging along it's merry way. This bugger is big enough to go out against the birds (I think it's the common myna eating the tinier ones).


I got this handmade fabric pineapple ornament at Dole when we went last Monday. Isn't she pretty? She hangs from my banana hook until Christmas . . . when I'll pack her away in January with the other ornaments. For now, I'm enjoying her out in my kitchen. She's so jolly!

Out on our porch (ahem, lanai, I mean) my husband spotted this (not many feet from behind me) and said, "Whoa! look at that giant moth!" I turned, already freaked out by the look on his face (his face was calm, he wasn't visibly shaken at all, but his eyes were mildly bulging), and upon seeing it, stood and started to back away.



Put into proper perspective, it wasn't that scary. Is it? It was actually kinda neat. It flew away by nightfall. I reckon it was just staying cool until it could fly without getting scorched.
Have a bloomin' weekend. I'm preparing a post for tomorrow (so I'm sticking to my no blogging on the weekends). God bless!