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Hawaii: National Botanical Gardens –Allerton Estates – Kauai Auntie Wendyisms: Why did the Rooster cross the road? To get chicks! Chickens are called Moa in Hawaiian and they have Moa, Moa, Moa and Moa all the time! (The hurricanes set the chickens free and most have not returned to their coups). When going by the [...]

An architect is a licensed individual who leads a design team in the planning and design of buildings and participates in oversight of building construction. The word “architect” comes from Latin architectus, which in turn derives from Greek arkhitekton (arkhi, chief + tekton, builder”). In its broadest sense, an architect is a person who translates [...]

As I prepare for my trip to Hawaii, I thought I would share some interesting things I learned about the Island of Kauai. 45% of the coastline of Kauai is deserted. Kauai is on the Northern most island in the chain. The National Tropical Botanical Gardens are located here. There are 5 distinct parts of [...]

The hobo spider (Tegenaria agrestis) is part of a group of spiders known as funnel web spiders. Their funnel shaped web appears smooth as silk and the spider waits at the narrow end for food to fall into the wider end where it gets tangled in intricate threads and cannot get free. Its aggressiveness is [...]