{"id":4863,"date":"2015-01-03T16:48:05","date_gmt":"2015-01-04T00:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4863"},"modified":"2015-01-03T16:48:05","modified_gmt":"2015-01-04T00:48:05","slug":"aw-hell-diddly-ding-dong-crap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/?p=4863","title":{"rendered":"Aw Hell, diddly ding dong CRAP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already edited my previous post twice so I&#8217;m just going to start a new one.<\/p>\n<p>First and foremost:  My 85 year old father in law has re-entered the dating scene after almost a year of being a widower.  After a Christmas Eve dinner of an enormous mixed salad and warm rye bread with butter he said to me: &#8220;Margaret, my profile on the dating sites mentions that one of the things I&#8217;m looking for in life is a good loaf of rye bread.  I think that this one was it!&#8221; \ud83d\ude00<br \/>\nI&#8217;m touched!  Even just telling people about it makes me tear up a little bit.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly:<br \/>\nPhotos!<br \/>\nKawainui<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/kawainui.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/kawainui.jpg\" alt=\"Kawainui\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4864\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/kawainui.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/kawainui-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Fish Pot Store (I wish I remembered the name, it was a cool spot) in Salt Lake had a pond-urn similar to what we wanted to put together only bigger.  I do love water lilies.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_4865\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/lily.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4865\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/lily.jpg\" alt=\"Fish Pot Store Lily\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4865\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/lily.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/lily-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4865\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fish Pot Store Lily<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>And I couldn&#8217;t for the life of me get close enough to this bougainvillea bush behind the Fish Pot Store to get a shot of the sulphur yellow butterflies that were flittering about in it, but it&#8217;s a cool bush anyway.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/bouganvilla.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/bouganvilla.jpg\" alt=\"bouganvilla\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4866\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/bouganvilla.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/bouganvilla-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This, according to the dudes at Koolau, isn&#8217;t a water lily.  God only knows what a &#8220;Yellow Snowflake&#8221; is, but it&#8217;s pretty and it blooms like crazy.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/yellow-snowflake.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/yellow-snowflake.jpg\" alt=\"yellow snowflake\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4867\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/yellow-snowflake.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/yellow-snowflake-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And if you should ever happen to be at one of the Costco-s on Oahu and see some of this stuff I&#8217;ve got two things to say.  One: Buy it!  It&#8217;s SERIOUSLY YUM.  And two is: SEND ME SOME!  Andrew also notes that it makes a great mixer with vodka, but my take on it is&#8230;. why mess it up with vodka?<a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/buy-me-some.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/buy-me-some.jpg\" alt=\"buy me some!\" width=\"450\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4868\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/buy-me-some.jpg 450w, http:\/\/www.uncle-andrew.net\/blog\/pics\/buy-me-some-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Okay.  Really.  I think I&#8217;m done now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve already edited my previous post twice so I&#8217;m just going to start a new one. First and foremost: My 85 year old father in law has re-entered the dating scene after almost a year of being a widower. 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