For those of you attending the Canoe Blessing tomorrow, I just found out from our host, Max Franco La Rivière-Hedrick, that we won’t actually be performing till after 12pm. Which is when the blessing actually starts. I’m told that the Kumu won’t need our sound system either, so I’ll be there at 11am instead of 10pm to setup our gear.
However, he says that for those of you interested, you’re more than welcome to attend the blessing at 12pm, or if your interested in learning more about He’e Nalu, be there at 11:30am to listening in on their Club meeting.
So once again, I’ll be there at 11am to setup and we play sometime a little after 12:30 or whenever the blessing are done.
Mahalo Nui Loa,
-=SqL+Nohea+Jake=-
I think I’m over dressed . . . Oh well, here today gone to Meowee.
Another beautiful weekend and looks like we’re headed to another great stretch of weather this week.
We had a pretty full house this past Saturday. 35 Ukulele Pilots in the house which included the Vendola Cafe Keiki Choir! Comprised of Bruce, Hannah and Zack, lead by Elana and Ms. Boosey. We aso celebrated a birthday, Hauoli la hanau Carolyn!
Check out the choir and yummy birthday cake by clicking below.
Mahalo to Lois for bringing the great Birthday Cake!
We had more excitement after returning from lunch this past Saturday . . .
And this is why . . .
Her duckling fell into the Storm Drain.
Before Nohea took this picture, I had called the Humane Society after she mentioned the Mommy duck circling the drain.
“What’s a duck doing there and why is she circling the drain,” she thought?
The Game Warden arrived shortly thereafter. We tried pulling out the grating but it seemed to be cemented in place with all the silt and weeds from the rains. Long story short . . .
. . . and after breaking the winch on the Game Warden’s truck and about 30 minutes of the two of us yanking on a wedged in 60lb storm grate with crow bars . . . it finally came loose (see photo above) and the Warden was able to rescue and return the ducklings, with Momma duck running right after him, to the marshlands.
And we’re back to our regular programming.
Click below to join us this Saturday Virtually and click here to register if you’ll be joining us IRL (In Real Life) at Vendola Café.
Remember we’ll be at 101 Sports in San Rafael this Sunday to help celebrate their Outrigger Canoe Blessing. Click here to view details of that event and to register.
I know that a lot of you have seen evidence of AI (Artificial Intelligence) Art on the blog. Here’s something that my son sent me.
It’s an AI generated song he created using the following text prompt:
A traditional hawaiian inspired song about a man named Kahua 51 who has a kanikapila every Friday night with big parties
So the back story on “Kahua 51” is before we became Vendola Cafè, we were known as Kahua 51. Kahua 51 loosely translates to Area 51. You know where all the “UFOs” are stored, as in UFOhana, wink, wink! Which is why my son refers to me a the “Kahua Man”.
Here’s the first version:
And here’s the second version:
Pretty amazing! I kind like them both. The Ai site is SUNO.COM.
UkEkU
a passage of time, some we mark by years, others by counting heart beats.
Look into my eyes . . . you must give the cat more food . . . you must give the cat more food . . .
Aloha A Hui Hou,
-=SqL+Nohea+Jedi Master Jake=-
Btw, did I mention that today was the 15th year anniversary of my heart attack?
