I love it when the sugar cane fields bloom with their big fluffy plumes. This usually happens in December on Maui each year. When the sun hits a field of these flowers, it's a truly beautiful site. Here's a few pictures that don't do the sight justice. I have just stopped and snapped a few q
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12/21/2007
I had my first ActiveRain meeting the other day. I have graduated to a new level for an ActiveRain newbie.... lol. It was unreal.Gena Riede from Sacramento contacted me before she came to Maui and we managed to hook up over here for a lunch date at Mama's Fish House Restaurant in Paia. She h
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12/21/2007
I haven't been posting much lately, probably because I spend way to much time making my posts all pretty - I love eye candy. But it's paid off anyway - a couple of the last ones became featured on Localism, so they earned me 400 points or more. Woohoo.Stable Road In Spreckelsville and Ho'okipa
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12/18/2007
Who's Brad Pitt?The other night Larry King was interviewing Brad Pitt and I turned on the TV and said, "we have to watch this program with Brad Pitt in New Orleans." My dad said "who's Brad Pitt?" I explained to him that Brad Pitt was the actor in the Jesse James film that he recently saw, and
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12/18/2007
Stable Road on Maui's north shore is a well known street that has some very exclusive oceanfront and beachfront properties for sale. The real estate in this neighborhood is not cheap, and that's because there's just not much of it. There are some very expensive beachfront estates at the end of t
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12/16/2007
Mahimahi (Coryphaena hippurus) is commonly known as dolphin (not the mammal), dolphinfish, or dorado, in other places. It's an open ocean fish found in seas around the world. When a mahimahi takes the hook, its colors are brilliant blue, silver and yellow. These fade in a flash when the fish d
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12/13/2007
WHERE - Haiku Maui - the north shoreWHAT - A new street!There's a new roadsign up on the Hana Highway at about the 15 mile marker. I notice it as I drive by each day. Remember the new paved roadsat Peahi Farms? Well they even got a street name already, and it's called Kai Huki Street. This is
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12/13/2007
Today was another beautiful day on Maui - the Kona storm has passed and things are back to normal here on the north shore. This was the scene at Ho'okipa Beach Park, with the usual smattering of beach-goers, surfers, windsurfers and kite-boarders. Waves were mid size, nothing like the 20-foote
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12/11/2007
Help is Here!I stumbled into a new place the other day while my husband was filling his fuel barrels at Maui Oil Company. We were in Kahului Maui, and I didn't want to wait in the truck. I wandered out in the misty rain and peeked my head into the first shop I came to. It's a small shop that's
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12/08/2007
Paia Maui Homes for Sale$1,595,000 FS71 Ulumau Place, Paia HI 96779 3 Homes on 1 LotThis 5 bedroom/2 bath 2 story home is located on a quiet cul-de-sac just above the Patsy Mink Paia Post Office. Walk into town and enjoy the many restaurants, shops and services. If you feel the need to get pam
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12/07/2007
