Visiting Da Cuzins

it was nice to be out in nanakuli today, despite the heat. we sat around in the garage area talking with my niece, jesse, and nephew, kimo, and assorted kids. very pleasant. the family is fixing up the house, painting and doing minor repairs. we weren't very helpful, james and i, just sitting around shooting the breeze. but we brought lunch and dinner, so that might have been useful for all of them. i took photos of whoever was there. then we drove up to the cemetery to visit lono. jesse said the boys who dug the hole also created a little rock border. when they were digging, they had a hard time removing one of the stones. eventually they did, however, after they built the border, they put that stone upside-down on one of the border stones where it now serves as a kind of guardian. it didn't seem to want to move to begin with, so they put it back to stand guard over lono. that's a pretty huge stone. i'm surprised it's still standing, but (again) it probably doesn't want to be moved.

james and i drove by gerry jervis' old house in nanakuli. gerry said when the property across the street was being developed, a huge stone in the middle of the property had to be moved. so the backhoe moved it out toward the road. the next day it was back in the middle of the yard. this went on a few times until the contractor decided to move the stone and build a cement block around it. when we last saw it, a few years ago, there it was in the middle of the sidewalk. people had to walk around it. today we went to look for it, but it wasn't there. we did look in the neighbor's yard across the street. two stones are now in a cement slab close to the road, but a fence was built between the road and the stones. i asked a girl riding her bike in the yard if one of these was the stone that used to be outside on the sidewalk. she said she thought so, but from further down the street. neither of these looks like the same stone, but it may be. i was sorry the stone i saw before was no longer in the sidewalk.