Adventures of a Midwestern Girl in Sunny, Sunny California

This morning we got up and went on the horseback ride we had originally planned to do on Saturday.  It was a beautiful ride that actually took us through the Maha’ulepu area, a lot of which the second half of the cliff hike we took on Friday would have brought us to. 
We have gone on [...]

We headed out (relatively) early this morning to go on a hike I’ve been wanting to do for years: the Pihea Trail to the Alaka’i Swamp Trail.  To get to the trailhead, you have to go all the way up to the very end of Waimea Canyon Drive.  It takes a full 40 minutes to [...]

I have just transferred from Moveable Type to WordPress and I’m still working on all of my settings and styles, importing images for older posts, and filling in non-post related text (i.e. About, etc.).  But it is late and I am weary.  Hopefully this will get fleshed out over the weekend.

My momma wanted a picture of the spider, so here it is!

Steve and I went to Seattle a few weeks ago to visit our far away friends Aaron and Vera. Steve had a meeting up in Redmond, which is not entirely rare, but it was on a Friday, which is. Since his plane ticket was being paid for by the company, we decided to [...]

I’ve been inundated with spam comments lately and increased my spam filter tenfold. Let me know if you’ve posted a comment and it hasn’t shown up. Chances are it got caught in the spam folder.

For the few of you who might be following my other blog, I should note that I changed the URL to http://platypi.com/policywonk/.

In case anyone is reading this, I’ll be heading home soon. Hopefully traffic on 280 and the bridge won’t be too bad. When I get there I’ll probably feed the cats and do a little laundry, perhaps even reformat a computer for wildcare. I’ll be back at work again at 10am for a [...]

I know this will probably send people into fits, but finally, a mere 4 years after the last update to my Web site, I am finally getting back in gear. Time has been in exceedingly short supply the last few years between work, school, our volunteer work at WildCare, and more work. There never [...]