"So long summer..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Sunday)

Judith Whitehead lives in Amherst New York
( A suburb of Buffalo, N.Y.)

 and has worked in the ophthalmology
 field of medicine for over 30 years

So long summer

 I see our summer come to an end so quickly.  I  reflect on the great last few months we have had. It was a great season for growing flowers and plants, watching robins and swallows hatch on my very own front porch--spending time out doors eating and visiting with friends and so enjoying the thin layer of clothing the summer rewards you with.  

Summer brought beautiful flowers
to Judy's garden

My final so long to summer will culminate with a trip out west soon where the temps average in the 90's this month.  

The days are getting shorter and darkness begins to fall at 8pm now.

 Fall is also a nice time of year here watching the leaves change and cover the ground but it only reminds me of the 'W' word which will come soon enough. No one appreciates their summers as we easterners.

A beautiful summer sunrise over
Judy's crib. 

  

Today we will have warm thunderstorms which we need the rain -- we'll take anything as long as it isn't  the white stuff.

Judy, Judy, Judy!  ;-)

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"Full Diagnosis..." 'Obama Da Dog' (Source)

Obama Da Dog is a life long resident of Hawaii.

Obama  can be seen cruising Kapa'a town
with her best friend James "kimo" Rosen!

Full Diagnosis

A woman brought a very limp duck to a veterinary surgeon. As she laid her pet on the table, the vet pulled out his stethoscope and listened to the bird's chest. After a moment or two, the vet shook his head sadly and said, "I'm sorry, your duck, Cuddles, has passed away."

The distressed woman wailed, "Are you sure?"

"Yes, I am sure. Your duck is dead," replied the vet.

"How can you be so sure?" she protested. "I mean  you haven't done any testing on him or anything. He might just be in a coma or something."

The vet sighed, turned around and left the room. He returned a few minutes later with a black Labrador Retriever. As the duck's owner looked on in amazement, the dog stood on his hind legs, put  his front paws on the examination table and sniffed the duck from top to bottom. He then looked up at the vet with sad eyes and shook his head.

  The vet patted the dog on the head and took it out  of the room. A few minutes later he returned with  a cat. The cat jumped on the table and also delicately sniffed the bird from head to foot. The cat sat back on its haunches, shook its head, meowed softly and strolled out of the room.

The vet looked at the woman and said, "I'm sorry,  but as I said, this is most definitely, 100% certifiably, a dead duck."

He turned to his computer terminal, hit a few keys and produced a bill, which he handed to the woman. The duck's owner, still in shock, took the bill. "$150!" she cried, "$150 just to tell me my duck is dead?!?" 


The vet shrugged. "I'm sorry. If you had just taken my word for it, the bill would have been $20, but with the Lab Report and the Cat Scan, it's now $150." 

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" The Lion and the Gorilla..." 'Chester "Unc" Lau' (Source)

Dakinetalk's favorite Uncle (Chester Lau)

"Unc"  is really passionate about creating a national Caregivers day.

Any help , support or ideas would be greatly appreciated...

'Unc' currently resides on the Hawai'ian Island of Oahu. 
He is a retired cinematographer,
 and  enjoys giving the politicians a bad time...
"I am PRO-CHOICE ON EVERYTHING WITH RESPONSIBILITY..."

 The Lion and the Gorilla

One day an out of work mime is visiting the zoo and attempts to earn some money as a street performer.  However, as soon as he starts to draw a crowd, the zookeeper grabs him and drags him into his office. 

The zookeeper explains to the mime that the zoo's most popular attraction, a gorilla, has suddenly died. The keeper fears that attendance at the zoo will fall off. He offers the mime a job to dress up as the gorilla until they can get another one. The mime accepts.

The next morning, before the crowd arrives, the mime puts on the gorilla suit and enters the cage. He discovers that it's a great job. He can sleep all he wants, play and make fun of people and he draws bigger crowds than he ever did as a mime. 

However, eventually the crowds tire of him and he gets bored just swinging on tires. He begins to notice that the people are paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. 

Not wanting to lose the attention of his audience, he climbs to the top of his cage, crawls across a partition, and dangles from the top to the lion's cage. Of course, this makes the lion furious, but the crowd loves it. 

At the end of the day the zookeeper comes and gives the mime a raise for being such a good attraction as a gorilla. 

Well, this goes on for some time. The mime keeps taunting the lion, the crowds grow larger, and his salary keeps going up. Then one terrible day when he is dangling over the furious lion, he slips and falls. The mime is terrified. The lion gathers itself and prepares to pounce. The mime is so scared that he begins to run round and round the cage with the lion close behind. 

Finally, the mime starts screaming and yelling, "Help! Help meee!!!", but the lion is quick and pounces. The mime soon finds himself flat on his back looking up at the angry lion. The lion slowly lowers his snarling mouth towards him and says: "Shut UP you idiot ! Do you want to get us BOTH fired?" 
                                      

 A note to Unc from Jack Lord star of the original Hawaii Five-O,
where "Unc" worked as a cinematographer

"The ultimate way to start the day, with a Kaua'i Sunrise meme"

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"Ms Pink Orpington..." 'Bettejo Dux' (Vintage Bettejo)

Bettejo Dux has lived on the cosmic Garden
 Island of Kaua'i for over 40 years.

Bettejo is a regular opinion writer in the Garden Island news

 and is the author of the famed novella, "The Scam." 

 Her latest fiction"Children of extinction"

 is now  released and available on Amazon!
Bettejo has a gift of mingling
 the present, the past, and the future. 

www.bettejodux.com

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Ms Pink Orpington

I don't suffer fool lightly. I'm outspoken. I speak my mind.

I'm President of our local exclusive--select, picky, proud-- Women's Club. We do golf and an occasional Fashion Show. I'm in charge of selecting models.  Do not approve of anorexics. We're full-blown women. In our prime and proud of it.

I'm the wealthiest woman in my Bible Study class. I can write a check for  four figures. I'm a member of our local Tea Party group and volunteer to do all the paper work and keep files on local events and personalities. This town's riddled with locals, liberals,  progressives, atheists and left-wing radicals. Dreadful. Well,  I can produce when need be. It's dirty work, but someone has to do it. I also vet books allowed in the local library.  Dare  mention Steinbeck, that horrid Hemingway, Tony Morrison!! I dare you...

I shop at a local Macy's--they know me there--but purchase fashionable attire at Neiman's.   I'm proud to be known as narcissistic. I never wear the same outfit twice. Sometimes, when I travel, I take the pick of the lot with me. I can, and do, wear things I wear here at some fine hotel in distant cities.  I sell most things, for a fine price--believe me-- at a local Second Hand. Giggle inwardly and point-- surreptitiously--at they who dare buy my discards here and show  them off in public. My friends and I enjoy this small  whimsy. I live alone. I'm a widow. And the master bedroom in my three bedroom high-rise-- on the top floor, what a view-- is my wardrobe.  I read about the lady in Texas with the three-story wardrobe and did so envy her. She did it for charity, of course--people pay to visit and envy and covet--and serves champagne.  She  has a champagne floor. We are truly kindred souls. One of a kind. Sisters under the skin.  I think of doing the same here on a smaller scale, of course. I think she would approve. I think I'll write a perfumed note and tell her of my great admiration.

I keep two pets. hairless cats--Warm and Fuzzy--they keep me company. Registered Sphynx, they're beautiful, awkward, and rare. The only ones in the entire town. I disdain common cats. Mine are pink and long-eared and they play on the terrace. Pink is my favorite color. Thus my nickname.

I admit I shop at the local big box. I buy in bulk. My cats and I could survive for three months without leaving our residence. In case of a disaster I keep a pantry. That's what I do with my second bedroom. It, like my closet, is well stocked and orderly.

This morning, as I sauntered down the aisles, I discovered, to my dismay, the idiots in charge were out of cat food. I hailed a workman, "Where is the cat food?" I demanded.

"It's over by the beer."

"By the beer? is that to imply cat lovers drink beer? We drink Dom." Guess I told him off.

Bettejo has a gift of mingling

 the present, the past, and the future...

Bettejo a few years back playing checkers
with her nephew...

Bettejo provided the quote on 

the enclosed Kauai sunrise meme!

P.S. 

Check out this short YouTube video,"Friends Furever." If your an animal lover, you'll love it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVuqfXohxc

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"A riddle about the barking dog ordinance..." James "Kimo" Rosen' (For Kaua'i people)

James "Kimo"Rosen is a retired Professional

 Photographer living on theGarden island

 of Kaua'i with his best friend Obama Da Dog.

A riddle about the barking dog ordinance

This blog is about a barking dog ordinance on Kaua'i that has been in effect since February 2014. This is an interesting subject matter even if you don't live on Kaua'i.

What's worse than appealing the barking dog ordinance?

A barking county council.

The  county council only voted on this bill in February of 2014 and it has only been in effect for about 18 months. There was over- whelming testimony that many neighborhoods are quieter with just the threat of a law, therefore it's working.

The division amongst council members is apparent . I  watched on Government access TV the entire meeting on appealing the law  and have come to the conclusion this is not about barking dogs, it's about division and lack of aloha between our own elected officials.

I know many of the council members and on a personal basis like them all, however when ego gets in the way and our representatives no longer respect the majority view of the people  it is time to make changes come elections in 2016.

The icing on the cake there is actually a motion to abolish term limits, can you just imagine having to live with this same rhetoric forever? 

 There is still time for this bill to  stay in place. The Mayor can veto it! Please write, call or email Mayor Carvalho to veto bill  #2590 AKA "The barking dog ordinance."  The Mayor's email is bcarvalho@kauai.gov.


Kauai sunrise memes are quotes by friends. Photos are all Kaua'i sunrise photos 
by James "Kimo" Rosen

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"If you don't know Jack, now's the time..!" 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #83)

James "Kimo"Rosen is a retired Professional Photographer
 living on theGarden island of Kaua'i
 with his best friend Obama Da Dog.

Kimo's World #83

Kaua'i island welcomes fast food giant-
 ~Jack in the Box

If you don't know Jack, now's the time!

Hawaii is the most isolated population center on the face of the earth. Hawaii is 2,390 miles from California; 3,850 miles from Japan; 4,900 miles from China; and 5,280 miles from the Philippines.

Where I live on the island of Kauai is  like living on an isolated rock in the middle of the Pacific. 

 Kauai is also known for a large number of anti's and environmental hippies that like to  protest and are opposed to everything and anything that the masses seem to enjoy. Therefore when a new fast food  franchise arrives on the cosmic island of Kauai you would think it would be met with hoards of protesters---that like to protest everything from Walmart super centers to GMO's. No protests or demonstrations, just a huge welcome filled with aloha.

A full dining room opening day
 at Lihu'e Jack in the Box

Monday July 27th was the grand opening of the first ever  Jack in the Box on Kauai. You would think the Pope or President Obama was in town. Lines so deep you needed a restroom break before ordering. A dining room so crowded that I was told by one fast food junkie that they waited three and one half hours for their lunch.

The drive through is backed
 up and zigg zagged
 around Jack in the box
 opening day in Lihu'e, 

The drive-through was another story, the line zig-zagged with vehicles, engines on and AC blasting on this hot, humid record breaking  July day.  If Jack's motto of, "We don’t make it until you order it" is true, the  wait would had been staggering.

Jack in the Box are geniuses in marketing, the food is anything but gourmet or healthy, yet the lines were staggering in numbers. Not only on opening day but still over one week later you would think they were giving away free gold bullion bars.
There are some fast food franchises that may have better food, however they don't know 'Jack' about marketing. 

So, if you don't know Jack, now's your opportunity... 

E komo mai (Welcome) Jack.

P.S. 
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"Gifts from patients..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Sunday) ---Judy-Judy-Judy---

Judith Whitehead lives in Amherst New York
( A suburb of Buffalo, N.Y.)

 and has worked in the ophthalmology
 field of medicine for over 30 years

Gifts from patients

Having  worked in the medical field for the last 35 years I have had many memorable experiences.  I was reflecting on some of the gifts the patients have given me over the years.  Today I got my first giant cucumber from a patients garden, can't wait to try it with dinner.

Many patients have hobbies...during the holidays they make knitted decorative items, needlework pins to wear, coasters for drinks,  many make home made baked goods.  

It's their way of taking the time to give us an extra thank you; many have serious health issues that bring them to the doctors offices often and we become an extension of their families,  we see them so much.

Some items I save, others I pass on...it's hard to keep everything but of course the food disappears the quickest.  Then there are a group of patients that bring coffee and treats when they come in; we love that.

Many times sales reps bring candy and food which is most appreciated.

Tonight I am making a salad with those great looking 
cucumbers.

Bon Appétit! 

Judy, Judy, Judy!  ;-)

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