Category: Happy & Healthy

I’m always the happiest when I’m hiking in the mountains or running on the beach! Here are pictures from a few of my favorite mountain hikes here in Hawaii. And it was a fruitful guava season, I picked tons of yellow guava and froze them. I blended them up in the blender first, strained out […]

Hello from the Pacific Northwest! I’ve been here for a month enjoying the end of Summer, hiking, picking Blackberries, Huckleberries (3 kinds!!!) Apples and lots of edible weeds like Stinging Nettles, Wild Mustard, Dandelion, Sow Thistle, Sheep Sorrel, Cleavers, Purslane, and Horsetail, Bittercress. I even found wild Watercress growing by the Beach! I also made […]

Hi everybody! It’s been a fabulous sunny Summer so far and I’ve been trying to visit some of my favorite beaches all over the island 🙂

It’s was a Cat Crazy summer because I decided to rescue and foster 5 absolutely adorable kittens who would have otherwise grown up feral living off lizards in the jungle. It was a huge kitten season and our volunteers were jumping through hoops trying to keep up. There’s already an enormous feral cat population here […]

My friend and I were hiking in the jungle exploring the ruins of an ancient Hawaiian village along a stream when we heard the unmistakable distress calls of baby chicks. It’s unusual to see wild chickens in dense jungle like this! The rock walls were incredible and the long ago inhabitants had planted Ti plants […]