Kona Condo

Island memories Mom still talks about

Mom STILL talks about the little photo album we once put together from island travels past.

Looking for places that feature ways to preserve the Aloha spirt?

Came across two stores on the islands listed as being craft-savvy  in  a store guide in the back of a travel scrapbookings magazine: 

First, Island Paperie on Maui at IslandPaperie.com 

They apparently specialize in Hawaiian Scrapbooking
Supplies.

A Big Island sample appears at left.

Photo Craft, originally based in Honolulu, can be found on the Web at allnaturalaccents.com. The site's operators say they closed the retail store in 2012, but since then have offered their products online. Here's YouTube video link showing one of their fine products. 

Closer to OurKonaCondo.com are the following, culled from a Web spin as of this wriiting in Spring of 2013:

Da Bead Shop

Island Yarn and Art Supplies

Kona Scrapbooks

Suzi's Scrapbooking Paradise

More from the Yellow Pages

 

	Enter your search terms
	Web inmotion.typepad.com Submit search form

Related articles

My mother: Over 50, Fabulous, Fearless, and ready to take on the world!

The Big Island's "First Beginnings" are still a Mystery

Scrapbooking the Cruise: Keep Calm and Travel On

Enjoy the Journey

Scrapbook Embellishment Patterns

Traditional Scrapbooking Once Again!

Traveling Hawaiian Byways with Pen and Camera

There's something about the Hawaiian Islands that inspires people to take pen in hand and capture their thoughts (A real pen fer cryin' out loud, not some beastly gadget!). Those fortunate enough to remember and treasure books are blessed by little discoveries such as the tome pictured above.

"Traveling Hawaiian Byways with Pen and Camera" are extracts from a 1936 logbook by a great American, agricultural marketer and learned man of letters named Ross H. Gast. At the behest of the University of Hawaii, Mr. Gast was among those experts whose goal, according to press accounts he cites, of helping the islanders fashion a self-sustainable food supply.


We picked up this copy of Mr. Gast's reminisces during a tour of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu.


(The InterWeb points us to Gast's bio of a colorful post-contact character by the name of Don Francisco de Paula Marin)

Six months into Gast's assignment, he became manager of the Inter Island Steamship Company Grower Service Department and then eventually returned to California.

In between, we are left with his musings inspired by his boyhood idol Mark Twain, who, he noted first popularized the Hawaiian Islands as a tourist destination while in the employ of the Sacramento Union newspaper in 1866.

Among the book's little gems are the observance that Twain once embarked on a plan to write a novel with Hawaii as its setting, but alas, it was never finished.

Twain's lone opportunity to return to the islands was thwarted in 1895. He had promised to lecture there during the course of a late life assignment to tour Australia, but  like other shipmates, was barred from setting foot on the island because of a cholera epidemic.

Twain's wrote in "Following the Equator"that instead he could only gaze at Oahu from offshore: "If I could." Twain wrote, "I would have gone ashore and never left."

Twain died in 1910, without having the opportunity to return to his "Paradise of the Pacific."

	Enter your search terms
	Web inmotion.typepad.com Submit search form

Related articles

Hawaiian Airlines

Hawaiian Sets New Record with 9.48 Million Passengers in 2012

Hawaiian Launches Flights to Australia's "Sunshine State"

A recipe from the Maui Onion Cookbook

 

If you're anything like us, you enjoy the wonderful taste of a sweet Maui onion and they taste so very much better here on the islands.

Barbara Santos' The Maui Onion Cookbook is chock full of oodles of terrific recipes for one of the world's best tasting bulbs.

In the book, she notes that such onions should be "enjoyed promptly after purchase."

Santos notes that their moisture content is very high and means they don't keep nearly as long as others.

Trips to OurKonaCondo.com are not complete without a dish or two featuring the Maui variety of onion. Today, we share, courtesy of the Maui Onion Cookbook, the following recipe, known as Tai Ching Look Fun Noodles, created by Gertie Ching Ceballos of Maui.  We couldn't find Look Fun noodles (probably weren't looking in the right place at the KTA Super Stores), but found Chow Fun noodles at Longs which also tasted great.

Ingredients here are for two, but you can double or more, as needed. Lots of fresh ingredients means it makes for a very healthy dinner.

1/4 pound fresh Chinese peas
1 stalk celery, sliced diagonally
1 large Maui Onion, diced
1 carrot, sliced diagonally
Sesame oil as needed
1 7 oz. package of Look Fun noodles
1/2 lbs. cooked char siu, sliced (Chinese roast pork -- we found in meat section at KTA.
1 package mung bean sprouts
3 green onions, sliced in 1 inch pieces
Oyster flavored sauce

(We like our stir fry well cooked.  If you prefer a crunchier texture, reduce cooking times accordingly)

Heat oil in wok until hot, toss in Maui onions, stir fry to desire texture, add carrots, continue, add celery Chinese peas and continue to desired texture. Add noodles (cut to desired length  or leave as is) Add oyster flavored sauce to taste along with char siu pork, heat through.  Reduce  heat, add bean sprouts and green onions, toss to desired degree of doneness and serve.

The book notes that if you want to serve this Maui style, toss into a paper cone and eat with chopsticks, but we preferred plates.

	Enter your search terms
	Web inmotion.typepad.com Submit search form

Subscribe to HAWAII magazine

This would be one of the special Easter offers courtesy of Hawaiian Airlines.

It's a limited time offer, right?  And you can earn up to 500 HawaiianMiles.

Hawaiian Airlines offer say: "With stunning photography and captivating stories, HAWAII Magazine will open a window to paradise with every bi-monthly issue."

Bi-monthly, that's every two months, right?  Not twice a month, right?

Okay, fine.

This (bi)month's issue has features on "Romance, Hawaiian style", and the modest, famed barefoot crooner guitarist surfer dude Jack Johnson.

The shot above is from the March/April cover issue.

Immerse yourself in Hawaii's unique culture, in a magazine devoted to the people, places, history and culture of the Islands. For a limited time, subscribe online for your subscription of HAWAII Magazine and earn 500 HawaiianMiles.

The magazine subscription for six issues is $20, a 50 percent savings off the cover price.

They take Visa, MasterCard and DiscoverCard.

They also take that other overpriced card that starts with the letter A, but it's not recommended by us here...short, pathetic story which we'll save for another time.

	Enter your search terms Submit search form
	Web www.inmotion.typepad.com

The art of Wyland

Hoo boy, our favorite artist of the oceans, Wyland, has a new book coming out at a terrific cost, what features some of his photographic arts.

You can learn more at wylandgalleries, but in case you have no time, you can pre-order a handsigned version (cover above) for a very reasonable price.

And of course, you can go to his gallery site and order up such works as a Giclee on canvas of images from the Northern Pacific. But you have to dig a bit deeper in the pocketbook...we're told they are offering half-off discounts during the month of February.

	Enter your search terms
	Web inmotion.typepad.com Submit search form

Mahalo Bartleby

         The Road Not Taken

TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;	5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,	10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.	15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.	20
Robert Frost (1874–1963). Mahalo to :Bartleby the Scrivener