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Me too. I did a big painting of a small rural town near us and it's hanging above the fireplace for summer. I change the paintings with the seasons.

I don't paint. Can hardly draw a straight line.

If drawing straight lines were a qualifier for painting I wouldn't be able to either. You should see what a wreck my handwriting is!

Mine was only passable when I was in school and has worsened since I broke my collarbone a few years ago. Thank goodness for typing!

That had to hurt. How did that happen?

I got into an argument with Pele on Maui! Seriously, a bicycle crash (not my fault) sent me over the handlebars and into an embankment while coming down Haleakala volcano. Minor concussion, broken collarbone, extreme bruising of most of my internal organs and a hunk of very dirty flesh that was surgically removed on the front of my right thigh. In a wheelchair the rest of our vacation - and it was our 25th anniversary and the bike ride was my suggestion. Go figure.

Owwwww. It's hurting me just to picture it and how awful for it to be a major vacation/celebration on top of it. So sorry, aknan. You must have been an athlete to have wanted to try that. What was your sport?

No, pixi, not an athlete. This was a bike ride down the volcano on a very winding road. We were taken up by van, assigned bikes (mine was too tall for me and the seat was in the lowest position - I'm 5'7"! ) and slowly made our way down the mountain, no pedaling required. Got some good speed u, though. The lady in front of me stopped with no warning. I couldn't go left - blind curve - and when I tried to go right, my wheels edged into the gravel. Luckily, I was wearing a helmet and missed a concrete conduit by about an inch. 9 1/2 hours in the emergency/trauma center! We canceled the trip to Hana by luxury van, the snorkeling trip to Molokini, a submarine sightseeing tour, everything. The biggest activity of the day was getting me up, cleaned, rebandaged and dressed to go out to eat. My Dearly Beloved, bless his heart, arranged for a hair appointment on our anniversary and got me a lei and a haku (head lei - baby rosebuds, plumeria and baby's breath - so lovely); I couldn't even do my own hair!

Good news, though - we went back for our 30th and did all the things we couldn't do before!

You married a winner, aknan.
We almost got killed on the highway by a driver who did that. Luckily the road was almost empty and when my husband swerved without looking (there was no time) nobody hit us from the other lane. It was 4 land and we were second from the right. Suddenly a car in the far left cut all the way across the road toward the exit but insteaed of exiting stopped dead in front of us for no reason.
God must have wanted you to go back to Hawaii. I bet it was twice as sweet the second time.

I think God wants us both alive! We've been back to Maui 3 times now and each visit was wonderful - with the one exception, of course! Lovely, relaxing island. Oahu is just a big city, Hawaii really doesn't have many good snorkeling beaches, haven't been to Kauai, but hear that it's a beautiful, low-key place, too.

Never been. Would like to see the flowers and waterfalls. Not much on adventure but maybe snorkeling. Would want an underwater camera for that tho.

Pixi, you can still buy disposable underwater cameras at Walmart and such places. We used them for years until I surprised my DB with a real one on his birthday. It's such a clear picture and so small that we use it more than our digital camera.

Yes, I know what you mean. I bought a small camera as a replacement when my cell phone camera (not the phone itself, just the camera after only 6 pix) went kaput. It's so convenient andmuch less to worry about that I sometimes only use it and leave the "good one" home.

I missed the hawks completely. lol

Lol PW