Beach Days

Beach Days

Beautiful Sunny beach days here in Hawaii and closer to the bottom are wild edible weeds and nettles I picked in the Pacific NW for making super Green Smoothies 🙂

Beach Bound Kitty

Beach Bound Kitty

This was a super fun afternoon beach picnic with my good friend and Piku my rescue Kitty. She was mostly well behaved and walked with her leash on! We were all having fun until the bumpy ride from the beach back out to the main highway after sunset.

For no reason we could see, Piku freaked out and turned into a tornado in the front seat of my friend’s Toyota Tacoma. A tornado with teeth!! She almost jumped out the window!

Maybe she smelled a wild pig??? It was a rough ten minutes, my friend had to pull over and stop. Thankfully we were able to calm her down enough to ride home. That was the last time Piku has ridden in another person’s car 🙂

Fuzzy Wild Mystery Berries

Fuzzy Wild Mystery Berries

I absolutely love finding edible fruit and weeds when I’m hiking! These fuzzy grey/blue mystery berries are really yummy. They taste like blueberry jam inside, YUM!! The fuzzy exterior was too fuzzy to eat 🙂 a local man called them “Rat Berries” and agreed that yes they’re edible.

Please know that I’m not suggesting that you eat mystery berries or anything else mysterious because it’s not safe. But I was really happy with these!

More pictures of lovely tropical Hawaiian scenery, pineapples I grew myself, tropical flowers, my vegan gluten free pizza, cookies and cinnamon roll experiments and more!

I mostly stick to my raw vegan diet (over 20 years raw!!) but I’m enjoying learning how to bake for family, friends and clients,

Suddenly Summer

Suddenly Summer

Hi everybody! Somehow an ENTIRE YEAR went by without me writing a SINGLE post. I don’t know how that happened but I must have been very busy 🙂 ha!! I work as a caregiver and our wonderful Kapuna here really keep me on my toes!

The last year has been beautiful here in Hawaii, lots of rain and now POOF it’s Suddenly Summer and sunny every day. Yay!

Recently I visited my family in the Pacific NW, picked all kinds of wild edible weeds and greens like usual, made crazy Green Smoothies from dandelion, nettles, goosefoot, cleavers, chickweed, horsetail and more and loved smelling all the spring flowers on my hikes.

After that I spent a few days in Orange County, got to run barefoot on the sand of Huntington Beach and also drive down Pacific Coast Highway, which is one of my very favorite things to do!