Water Water Everywhere, Except Maui

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Part 4 of a multi-part series: Notes From a Wayward Mauian

By Maui Curmudgeon

Summer in Colorado means many things, one of them rushing water. Everywhere you go, streams and creeks and rivers hurl down the banks, some near overflowing, as the last of the snows in the Rockies melt away.
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More Maui Water Woes

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Aloha

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Day 208 of 2009
157 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Warm is the home in which a parent lives.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth.” (Kahil Gibran)
TODAY: A small yield for a well drilled by Maui Land & Pineapple Co. at Piiholo has put the company and Maui County water officials at odds over a deal to use the water. More >

July 27th, 1940: Cartoon character Bugs Bunny is born in Brooklyn, NY. The proud parents were Tex Avery and Mel Blanc.

Bugs Bunny is 68 years old today

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 27th

  • 1586: Sir Walter Raleigh brings the first tobacco to England from Virginia
  • 1866: Cyrus W. Field succeeds in laying the first Atlantic telegraph cable (1,686 miles long)
  • 1909: Orville Wright test flies the first U.S. Army airplane for 1 hour and 12 minutes
  • 1940: Billboard magazine starts publishing bestseller charts
  • 1944: The U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese
  • 1974: The House Judiciary Committee votes 27-11 recommending Nixon impeachment on a charge that he had personally engaged in a “course of conduct” designed to obstruct justice in the Watergate case
  • 2005: NASA says a sizable chunk of foam insulation came flying off the shuttle Discovery’s fuel bank during liftoff, prompting the space agency to ground future shuttle flights until the problem could be fixed.
  • 2005: Ahmed Ressam, an Algerian who’d plotted to bomb the Los Angeles airport on the eve of the millennium, was sentenced to 22 years in prison by a judge in Seattle.

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Sugar, Sugaree

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Day 207 of 2009
158 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kopa‘a: Sugar
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Suga: Sugar
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The deaf hear but one kind of speech.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” (Aldous Huxley)

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