Monday, May 13, 2013

I'm going to be away again ...

Late notice, sorry. I'm going to be away again from the 15th (Wednesday), in the morning, so I won't be able to ship anything then, may still be able to get to Ag inspection tomorrow though, and possibly later than "before work". I'm coming back on the 29th and will try to get all orders that came in in the meantime on the 30th. As I have been included in an Etsy Treasury again, yellow lilikoi seeds this time here it is:

'Aloha!' by mamushkahandmade



Cute Little Brooch ...
$30

Lampwork Earrings Y...
$39

Toe Thongs (pair)- ...
$32

Yellow Hawaiian Flo...
$24

Vintage Hawaiian Ma...
$68

Sugar Scrub Soap - ...
$5

Vintage Ralph Laure...
$22

Wire Wrapped Hair S...
$29.9

Nuno felted flower ...
$19.9

Fun Vintage Yellow ...
$28

White blossom hair ...
$19

Dress 1960s Vintage...
$34

Backpack Purse in O...
$10

Vintage Brooch Enam...
$18

20 Lilikoi seeds - ...
$7

Beaded crochet neck...
$117

Treasury tool supported by the dog house


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Friday, April 5, 2013

Very limited availability of tiare/gardenia taitensis seeds - and update on other seeds

For the past several years I had access to tiare seeds pretty much year round. The bushes I got them from were cut back, including all the seed pods. There are very few more bushes that go to seed here and none of them are anywhere near ripe. They were put on the invasive list before because "people are selling them on Ebay" - and I managed then to get them off because the people who were selling them on Ebay then got them from me and the person who put that on the list is somebody who I'm on a mailing list with. I'm keeping them on Ebay off and on as long as I have some that are still fresh. There will not be any listings on Ebay, Etsy or anywhere for large numbers of them.

While being in Kona in late March I tried to find new white bird of paradise seeds but those weren't ripe yet. As we usually only go to Kona in March these days I'm not likely to get any from there this year. There are (or possibly were) some in Hilo but as I'm not usually on vacation while at home I may miss them.

As I didn't post for so long, here's an Etsy treasury from February which has a lei of mine in it:

'******COLOR OF THE W??NE********' by aytulgift



Formal Ball Gown Pr...
$235.00

Original Burgundy W...
$19.95

The Rose that Lasts...
$14.00

Medusa .. Opaque Ma...
$6.99

Dark Red Garnet Kan...
$22.00

Chunky Macrame Brac...
$11.54

Tie sided Harem Pan...
$34.00

Burgundy Queen Anne...
$40.00

Bridal Clutch Winte...
$46.00

Burgundy and light ...
$45.00

NEW Color- Ruffled ...
$11.99

Embroidered flower ...
$38.00

Turkey Burgundy rub...
$14.00

Burgandy little gir...
$12.00

Arm Mittens Glove /...
$25.00

Ruffle scarf ,Pash...
$18.90

Treasury tool supported by the dog house

As always, extra whitespace removed by me.

Friday, February 8, 2013

Did you bother tasting that at all?

Monday, when I started writing this post, I was reminded of something a late friend and former coworker once said. We used to go to lunch together frequently, all of us who worked at the Caltech Submillimeter Telescope office in Hilo when it was still on Kilauea Avenue, because it was more or less next door to Cafe 100. Lynn was an electronic technician, a very good one, and I still miss him. A farm kid from Iowa who went into the Navy and became an electronics technician. Later he built himself a trimaran and sailed from the West Coast to Hawaii, missed Hilo by all of about 5 miles and settled here.
One day at lunch I was in a hurry for whatever reason and ate my lunch in about 3 minutes. He said "Did you bother tasting that at all?"

I had such a day last Monday. My office mate of several years Bryan and I went up the mountain to fix some computer problems and run a bunch of tests. At Hale Pohaku, the mid-level facility, where we stop to acclimatize for the altitude I asked one of the cooks about when we were going to have lunch and was told that there was only going to be an early lunch. There went my intention to fix something, get somebody at sea level to change a configuration of computers and get a test going before lunch. We were almost late for the early lunch but got our lunch and ate it fairly quickly and managed to get some stuff done before the person at sea level went to lunch so that I could start my test. We went about the rest of our business up there at UKIRT and got back down to Hilo at a reasonable time. I even got home at a reasonable time, picking up dinner on the way home. As I was both very hungry and very tired I ate that in about 3 minutes as well.

We started having computer problems at one telescope or the other one way or the other 10 days ago. Last night we had the first night at UKIRT when we didn't have any faults in a week. Normally we don't have significant faults more often than every other week at least. We still don't know what happened to cause some of those computer problems, others we're very well aware of.

And as I didn't get around to posting this until now: Congratulations to my supervisor Craig Walther to be RCUH Employee of the Year. He very much deserves that.

To make this a not completely technical post, here's another Etsy Treasury I'm featured in:

'******COLOR OF THE W??NE********' by aytulgift



Formal Ball Gown Pr...
$235.00

Original Burgundy W...
$19.95

The Rose that Lasts...
$14.00

Medusa .. Opaque Ma...
$6.99

Dark Red Garnet Kan...
$22.00

Chunky Macrame Brac...
$11.54

Tie sided Harem Pan...
$34.00

Burgundy Queen Anne...
$40.00

Bridal Clutch Winte...
$46.00

Burgundy and light ...
$45.00

NEW Color- Ruffled ...
$11.99

Embroidered flower ...
$38.00

Turkey Burgundy rub...
$14.00

Burgandy little gir...
$12.00

Arm Mittens Glove /...
$25.00

Ruffle scarf ,Pash...
$18.90

Treasury tool supported by the dog house

'******COLOR OF THE W??NE********' by aytulgift



Formal Ball Gown Pr...
$235.00

Original Burgundy W...
$19.95

The Rose that Lasts...
$14.00

Medusa .. Opaque Ma...
$6.99

Dark Red Garnet Kan...
$22.00

Chunky Macrame Brac...
$11.54

Tie sided Harem Pan...
$34.00

Burgundy Queen Anne...
$40.00

Bridal Clutch Winte...
$46.00

Burgundy and light ...
$45.00

NEW Color- Ruffled ...
$11.99

Embroidered flower ...
$38.00

Turkey Burgundy rub...
$14.00

Burgandy little gir...
$12.00

Arm Mittens Glove /...
$25.00

Ruffle scarf ,Pash...
$18.90

Treasury tool supported by the dog house

(and extra spaces removed by me :) )