cronesmoon: Transplanted

Hurricane Cronesmoon (

cronesmoon) wrote,
@ 2008-01-10 12:43:00

Transplanted
What I miss most about Hawaii:
The colors of the water
Warm, humid weather
Granny Goose taro chips
Steep green in-your-face mountains
The rhythm of island speech
Granny Goose taro chips
Ginger chicken sauce

What I miss most about North Dakota:
Outdoors that goes on forever
Low population
The quilting ladies
Empty roads
Friendly neighbors
Knoepfla (knefla, knoefla, knephla) soup
Lefse

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	inannaliban 2008-01-10 06:15 pm UTC (link)
	I love Lefse. My great grandmother used to make it when I was little. Hmmm, may have to pull out the old recipe book :-) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cronesmoon 2008-01-11 11:45 am UTC (link)
	The ladies in Upham all have special equipment for making it: dedicated electric griddles, paddles for turning, round rolling boards with cloth covers, sleeves for their rolling pins...They don't all have potato ricers, though, which I would consider essential. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	inannaliban 2008-01-11 04:01 pm UTC (link)
	I have my great grandmothers ricer :-) I also have her bread riser and potato chipper. GG didn't use a whole lot of specialized equipment for doing things. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cronesmoon 2008-01-12 01:44 pm UTC (link)
	Bread riser? Wow, that's totally cool. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	inannaliban 2008-01-12 05:03 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, it is a large enamel ware bowl with a lid. It can hold enough dough for 16 loaves of bread. It looks like this one, but the lid on mine is also enamel ware. http://www.tias.com/8253/PictPage/1922827463.html I still use it on occasion. :-) (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cronesmoon 2008-01-12 08:32 pm UTC (link)
	That is seriously nice. I'm impressed. (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2008-01-10 07:46 pm UTC (link)

What I miss most is the view from my front porch, the bow window in my lovely light-filled bedroom, the privacy of the enormous back yard, going from back door to back door with my neighbors.

It's been eight years now, and finally it only hurts a little when I look up from the intersection below and see _my_ house sitting there, home to a new family, not mine, not ever again.

Mo

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cronesmoon
2008-01-11 11:37 am UTC (link)

Oh, it would be SO much harder to be within sight of "home" and not be able to have it anymore.

Indoor light is another thing: the school in ND had such wonderful big multitudinous windows, so even on the darkest days it was never as dark inside as it is on the brightest days here. And the Hawaii house was probably the first I'd ever lived in that had enough windows. Light is a good thing.

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	kateelliott 2008-01-10 09:51 pm UTC (link)
	How are you doing in central PA? (Reply to this)(Thread)

cronesmoon
2008-01-11 11:41 am UTC (link)

I try to like it. But it's crowded, and unfriendly, and if you go outdoors you will find a tick somewhere on your person when you go in again (ew!). I miss the outdoors.

I loved about the school that we had our own private courtyard entirely surrounded by school, so I could be completely private in my garden, and even sleep outside on warm summer nights (preferably windy ones, to blow away the mosquitoes).

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2ndsoprano
2008-01-11 02:39 pm UTC (link)

I try to like it

Hmm, I could take that as a personal insult. I grew up in PA (northeast, tho, so not quite the same!) But I won't- I'm like that. LOL

if you go outdoors you will find a tick somewhere on your person when you go in again

No ticks now. Just snow and slush and ice and other wonderfully horrible things like that. I might just prefer the ticks! Maybe.

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cronesmoon
2008-01-12 01:55 pm UTC (link)

I think the land must have been pretty before it got crowded with too many people. But the tick problem is serious, here. I can usually walk to the mailbox without disaster, but I went out to adjust the solar path light, for which I had to step into the grass some, and although I examined my pants all over when I came back in, and took a shower a short while later, still a tick got into my hair and started to attach itself before I realized.

I hate ticks. And they'll be alive and active any time the temp rises above freezing, or so I'm told. Euw.

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2ndsoprano
2008-01-12 02:58 pm UTC (link)

The overcrowding is an issue everywhere, I'm afraid. When we moved up here many years ago, it was quiet, little traffic and very pretty. Now, while it's still rather pretty (one thing they don't do as a matter of course up here is mow down all the trees when they build- just most of 'em!), we get constant truck noise from the main road and traffic is ridiculous.

Ticks are an issue in some areas here, too. A few years ago, I pulled more off the dog than I care to think about. I think they were coming in to get him! Very glad the cats do not venture outside at all.

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	cronesmoon 2008-01-12 08:33 pm UTC (link)
	That's one of many reasons we loved ND so much: no overcrowding. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	kateelliott 2008-01-11 05:31 pm UTC (link)
	Are you there permanently or temporarily? We were in State College for 8 or 10 years before moving to Oahu, and I never really got used to it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cronesmoon 2008-01-12 01:59 pm UTC (link)
	I hope it's temporary. The job RK has now is a contract job good only till the end of this year, but they're thinking of hiring him on permanently, and he's undecided whether he'd like that. He misses ND and Hawaii too, but likes making enough money to keep the bills current. (I must say that is nice. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	cronesmoon 2008-01-12 02:08 pm UTC (link)
	[does double-take] You were here for 8-10 years and you never got used to it? Argh. Doesn't bode well. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	kateelliott 2008-01-13 06:56 am UTC (link)
	I should note that we heard many tales of people who attended university in State College and then never wanted to leave. And just six months ago our neighbors here in Mililani, who had moved here 3 years ago in order to live in paradise, had had enough and left (in fairness, it was the husband who had had enough; I think the wife would have stayed). (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

cronesmoon
2008-01-13 02:09 pm UTC (link)

Actually it's unusual for people who move to Hawaii to stay for more than two years. Probably the military influences that statistic, though; most of them, while they do move there, don't do it willingly, hate it the whole time, and are relieved when they can go back to the mainland. Only a few discover a home there.

There's probably no place in the world that everyone will like. And no place that someone doesn't.

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	2ndsoprano 2008-01-13 04:20 pm UTC (link)
	I should note that we heard many tales of people who attended university in State College and then never wanted to leave Hmm, that's odd. Being from PA, I can relate an old, old joke: One does not ATTEND State Penn; one is sentenced from 2-5. Seems you'd WANT to leave the scene of your incarceration! LOL (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	cronesmoon 2008-01-14 01:26 pm UTC (link)
	Some people become attached to the oddest things, especially in times of stress. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	tenar10r 2008-01-10 10:20 pm UTC (link)
	Your descriptions of Hawaii in 'Cold Iron' made me cry because they matched my memories of a vacation in Kaneohe with my best friend years ago. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cronesmoon 2008-01-11 11:42 am UTC (link)
	Oh, thank you! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	twyleth_teg 2008-01-11 08:02 am UTC (link)
	Mmmm lefse. Makes riceing all those damn potatoes worth it. ...Why is it You walk into any random lutheran church, stick around a while and "lefse" will somehow pop up in conversation. Without fail. Boggles (Reply to this)(Thread)

	cronesmoon 2008-01-11 11:43 am UTC (link)
	LOL, is this true? I'd never encountered either lefse or Lutherans before living in ND. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

twyleth_teg
2008-01-11 11:24 pm UTC (link)

well I grew up in a lutheran church so every pot luck dinner or anual meeting the ladies would head down to the basement to discuss food [and gossip. much gossip] Ditto with any of the other local ones we visited [being in the choir we'd ocassionally pop out to some of the smaller comunities and sing cantatas and stuff and theyd have a potluck lunch for us and lo! lefse would always be in attendance on the table.]
And here in so-cal i wandered over to the local one- only 3 blocks away that had a garage sale... and im sitting therepoiking through old hymnals and such listening to the ladies sitting there kitting and chattering with the locals and someone came looking for a potaoericer and one of the guys was like "whats that" and this got the old ladies going on about lefse- and the guy was like "huh?" and it kinda went on from there.
i added my 2 bits which got amused/surprised looks from the ladies that i would know anything about lefse. [either 'cause i was a stranger, i was the youngest person in the room or becuase they hadnt noticed i was there. am not sure which.]
So yes? as far as I know?

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	cronesmoon 2008-01-12 02:04 pm UTC (link)
	LOL! Probably because you're young. Us old folk are often surprised when the young take interest in something of that sort. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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