Some Other Stuff

      More Letters From Paradise
         Some Other Stuff
My thanks to Aunt Marlene for reminding me of frozen milk bottles way back then. I also forgot to tell about the quart size bottles of orange drink, which were so desired by all the kids.

Mark Twain once wrote that the report if his death was greatly exaggerated. I now have something in common with him. We recently decided to transfer our Elks membership from Michigan. It was about time, after all we have lived here ten years. Then it happened. The secretary of our lodge in Michigan, when transferring our membership, hit the wrong key. I then became deceased. The mess is now being fixed (we hope).A simple letter mailed to the Elks lodge here would have finished the problem. Computers are not always the wonderful things we are led to believe that they are. Anyway, I'm still not dead.

After the recent hurricane, which by the way caused great damage in Puna, on the Big Island, we have a large stockpile of water, batteries etc. But the hurricane season is not over yet. We must always be prepared.

Our city council is driving many of us nuts. They can't seem to pass laws that would forbid peeing, pooping, lounging across sidewalks, pan handling etc. Many people from Canada and elsewhere have written to the local paper saying that they will not return, even if they had been coming here for years. And tourism is our number one source of income. A lot of us are real angry.

And, please ask your friends to read my blog. Not just the recent stuff, roll back and see what is there. There are over 130 entries. Thank You.

          Aloha
          Grant