Wise Man less blurry

Wise Man

Owen's big moment captured in full blur

Owen Christmas Play

More lights

Tree-lighting at Castle

Beautiful day in Hawaii nei

Cafe Panini Turkey & Avocado

Oh Christmas Tree Farm

Genki goodness

Hawaii upsets Navy 24-17

Sat next to John Fonoti's dad... Cool guy... Great game

Sunset Beach

Sunny Garcia at Oneill World Cup at Sunset

Hook Norton Brewery Double Stout

Pvt. Gomer Pyle, USMC

Well gooooooolie - look who we ran into to at the recent Marine Corps anniversary ball...

Halloween 2009

The theme this year (our 5th of no-holds barred Halloween madness) was the Paliwiki Street Retirement and Mortuary. This year we had a tremendous amount of help in pulling this thing together (which was critical as we pretty much waited til the last minute). Thanks especially to Doug, Randy, and Brad and Kim for the construction and decoration help. The P-street teenage boys came up HUGE this year in concept development, preps, and excellent performances - they basically ran the haunted tent all night - they rocked and scared many a guest (and they were tired afterward!). Thanks to all.

We have some pics we need to post - but even better! Brad already did! Here is the direct link to the tremendously well-produced montage/walk-through video that mix-master Brad put together. It is truly impossible to capture it all: the strench and disgust of the blacklight retirement care (care-less???) wing; the tactile repulsion of the black-out corridor; the spine-tingling fear in the crypt with the view of the haunted graveyard and the "surprise" dungeon; and the grooviness of the heaven or hell choice chamber featuring both the bottomless pit (o' despair) and the "go into the light" green laser/fog vortex (so cool in person it was shocking) - but the video does a pretty good job.

BWAH BWAH BWAH...

Free Range RIP

Sad day today - one of our beloved free-range guinea pigs (Cinnamon) died today in what appears to have been an accident involving our two-man kayak and some overly exuberant children. She was buried in the back yard in a dignified ceremony in the afternoon. She had a great life and very much enjoyed the wilds of our backyard. Her sweet little guinea pig greeting squeaks will be missed. Cinnamon is survived by her good buddies and fellow free-range pioneers Opal and Stinky (what is that other pig's name?). The extent of the Lemonds children's grief is directly proportional to their age as is to be expected. RIP Cin-cin.

Great seats thanks Napa

Don't tread on Magee

Tuesday sunset at HNL

Wow

Carlos at Cafe Panini

This place is great