If you've been following my blog, you know that Tuesdays are for nostalgia, and that I've been looking back at those postings featuring Pearl's Ashes.   Last week it was Africa .  Today, the island of Kauai, for a whole chapter of a possible upcoming book,  Pearl's Ashes , will occur on Kauai.  To quote: While she is from the Big Island, Kauai was where we mostly lived the first year of our marriage, and therefore might have been our most memorable stop.  At the Kilauea Sugar Company where I was a trainee, we were provided a cottage with the slippery slide location of the movie   South Pacific   (right, where Bloody Mary sang   Happy Talk   to Liat, played by France Nuyen--and, amazingly enough, Pearl looks just like her, and they were even born in the same year--and Lt. Cable) as our backyard. Below in 1963 with Pepper, a mostly german shepherd she raised from 6 weeks old.  He was so large that the only way I could wash him was to ...

Did you know that as of 23December2024 there were  44 active volcanoes on Earth ?  I would imagine that they're almost all still erupting today.  Except for five in Africa and Europe, all the others are in the Pacific, or close to it. Three are linked to the U.S.:  Ahri ( Marianas, Pacific Ocean ), Sitkin ( Aleutians, Alaska ) and Kilauea on the Big Island of Hawaii.  Here is a  live multi-cam from Haleakala Crater . As I predicted, the volcanic gases wafted over to Honolulu this weekend: But air movement shifted, so it's okay now.  Our windows are regularly cleaned. As I still actually golf, next, the Sentry on Maui, won by Hideki Matsuyama ( always wears yellow on the final day of play ) of Japan with a score of -35, which is the lowest round ever played in PGA history.  Not that the Kapalua Plantation Course is easy.  It's unique. The 17th hole is a par 4 of 550 yards, the longest on the tour. The 18th is a 678 yard par 5, the longest on t...