Hanging Around the House and Popie's Herbs - March 12-16

Hi Everyone.  It's been over a month since I've posted anything here.  We are, sadly, no longer in Hawai'i but I plan to continue the blog as a record of our time there.  I will assume everyone wants to keep on hearing about it and if you are, indeed, sick of hearing about it, it's easy enough to delete the link.

We are now up to about week number seven of my time in Hawai'i.  This is the week that we had many wonderful visitors - Popie and Steve Martin (Ferd's sister and our brother in law), their lovely daughter Alice who came to Hawaii to distract herself from missing her husband, Steve, who is in Afganistan keeping us all safe with his highly intelligent work, and to distract herself from buying a new house and taking care of her herd of horses, Ben and Logan (our offspring - note that I did NOT say children, which they find highly offensive since they are now adults, but that's hard to do, isn't it), and our friend Julie (also a very grown up person).

The blog format has now changed and I'm not sure exactly what I'm doing so who knows how this will end up looking but here goes with some photos:

Steve doing the hula

Popie and Alice relaxing

The lovely Alice

Having a rollicking good time on the lanai

Ben gently waking Logan up the next morning

A good time for a little mischief

Our resident Cattle Egret having a Max Escher moment.  (Can anyone tell me how he did that?  This photo has not been photoshopped, I promise.)

Popie visited a Chinese Herbalist "Doctor" in Chinatown who prescribed this appetizing concoction for tea.  She made the tea and drank it for four days as directed after she got home and is still OK.