Finches and Egrets Oahu

A L O H A !

Java Finches 

Breakfast in Waikiki with Friends

[Doves and a spectacular red stranger]

EGRETS

Carroll Cox

Linking to

Wild Bird Wednesday

Here

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Thank You!

          Cloudia

Tool Belt Gals

A  L  O  H  A !

A Warm Golden Blue Sky for You

" Life is too short 

to be little. "

                    Benjamin Disraeli

 " Happiness belongs 
to the self-sufficient "
                 Aristotle 

Plumeria / Frangipani

 “Oh, that's the beauty 

of the rose, 

that it blossoms 

and dies.” 

        Willa Cather

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There was a time

when I was young

that I wanted to work

with my hands.

My teacher's husband

hired me

to do the scutwork

on his urban

renovation jobs.

I was 18 years old.

I pried hundred-year-old nails

from ancient wood

with a 

Stanley Wonder Bar.

I dismantled stairs,

spackled dry wall,

used a miter box

to cut cove molding

so it met perfectly

in corners.

The belt sander,

the drill driver,

and trusty hammer

were my daily companions.

One day

we build a 

free-standing wall!

A pony tail

on a construction job

was quite unusual.

But every day now

I see young women

in hard hats,

working along.

And some part of me

thinks:

"I helped do that!"

And who knows,

maybe I did.

What paths

have YOU cleared?

Thank YOU

for making a path

here with us!

            Fondly, Cloudia