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JAPANESE SPAGHETTI (日本のイタリアンスパゲティ)

Posted by Betty on Thursday, August 20, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
Today I made Japanese spaghetti for Dan. He kept asking me to use my Japanese cooking knowledge to make spaghetti. How to do it? 

I boiled up some authentic Italian spaghetti al dente

I decided to use American tomato sauce as the base, and added some ketchup. Then I added some homemade vegetable broth and some A-1 sauce (Dan is American and likes both ketchup and A-1 sauce). To make it taste "Japanese," I sautéed pieces of Arabiki sausage (Arabiki means "coarse ground sausage") and shiitake ...
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DREAM CRUISING! 夢のクルージング!

Posted by Betty on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
Over the last years, my husband and I have taken to cruising. We tried cruising once in early spring, another time in summer and again in fall. Mostly short 5 to 7 day cruises around Hawaii and along the Mexican Riviera. More recently we cruised for 10 days from Honolulu to Vancouver B.C. Canada. We had just planned a 21-day dance cruise on Cunard's Queen Elizabeth from Yokohama, Japan to Russia, to Alaska to Vancouver. Unfortunately, COVID-19 appeared in March/April basically stopping the en...
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OMG IT'S HAPPENING! びっくりした!

Posted by Dan on Wednesday, May 13, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
Yesterday, I posted about Loihi, our future eighth Hawaii island (actually there are about 130-plus "islands" in the Hawaiian Archipelago) anticipated to break above the waves in roughly 10,000-plus years. 

To my complete surprise, Loihi was mentioned on today's news. Apparently swarms of earthquakes began occurring within the Loihi Seamount yesterday! That probably means that it is growing, or at least groaning. Who knows?

I just think it is really weird that this would occur the day after I p...
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HAWAI'I's EIGHTH ISLAND, LO'IHI ハワイで8番目の幻の"ロイヒ島 "

Posted by Dan Janik on Tuesday, May 12, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
Said to be still about 3000 feet undersea, the Loihi Seamount represents what is likely to be our 8th Hawaiian Island, joining its closest neighbor, Hawaii, as well as Molokai, Maui, Lanai, Kahoolawe, Oahu, Kauai and  Niihau. I've never seen any videos of Lo'ihi steam erupting out of the ocean.

According to Wikipedia, Lōʻihi's last known eruption was in 1996, before a swarm of 4,070 earthquakes, making Lōʻihi at that time the most energetic earthquake swarm in Hawaii recorded history. Lō...
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DANCE, DAN, DANCE! ダンス、ダン、ダンス!

Posted by Betty on Monday, May 4, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 
In Hawaii, we have been in "lockdown" for a month now. That means no social dances, performances or competitions. We teach dance at the Palladium for International Ballroom Dance Inc. No Palladium; cancelled indefinitely. We planned to go to UK this year to compete in the British Open. Delayed and delayed. Then we planned to go on a dance cruise. Cancelled, rescheduled, and cancelled again. Our coaches here have had to close their studios, at least for now. We can't get to our coaches in Japa...
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FINALLY!!!!

Posted by Betty on Friday, May 1, 2020, In : Betty's Blogs 

Finally!! 遂に!


Finally, I claimed my unemployment! Happy…and exhausted!


I was furloughed from my Time-Share Company due to COVID-19 at end of the first of week in April. I immediately registered for unemployment just like my company said. At that time, unemployment on Oahu Island (the main island of the seven Hawaiian Islands, together the 50th state of the USA) was already more than forty thousand! It was impossible to access the Hawaii Office of Unemployment or its website to registe...


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CHOCOLATE BREAD, CHOCOLATE BREAD FRENCH TOAST

Posted by Betty on Sunday, April 12, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
I like to bake bread, especially during this stay-at-home time. Last week, we ran out of milk -- fresh and powdered -- and I didn't want to go out to a supermarket during this high-risk COVID-19 week just for milk for bread. Calling around, I was disappointed to learn that all our local drive-by-and-pickup grocery stores were out of it. Out. None. Nada.

So, I turned to the trusty internet. Powdered milk was being advertised everywhere, but each time I attempted to order it, it was "temporaril...
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SOCIAL DISTANCING - WHAT FUN! :-)

Posted by Dan on Saturday, March 28, 2020, In : Dan's Blogs 
In these days of rampant COVID-19, it's all about "social distancing." Yes? Well, let's think about that for a moment. Distancing, yes. But actually it's all about PHYSICAL distancing, really. And what is the main side effect of physical distancing? An overwhelming need for social CLOSENESS. There's nothing like a few weeks in physical isolation or quarantine to make one scream for social closeness, whether by snail mail, email, phone, message (messaging is my personal favorite because I can ...
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REAL SOMATIC THERAPY!

Posted by Betty (Setsuko Tsuchiya) on Monday, January 7, 2019, In : Betty's Blogs 
Happy New Year!

It is already Jan. 6th. Time goes so fast.

My husband and I went to Hawaii Kai Retirement Center to host a monthly dance. It's strictly volunteer, and I love it!

This is the first event of 2019. We hold it on the first Sunday of every month. This month was New Year's Party!

From 6:00 pm, retirement center residents gathered at "The Ice Cream Parlor" in the Center next to the dining room in Phase Two. We danced to Glen Miller's music for 20 minutes, then we did a Tango performance,...
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FROZEN IN HAWAII

Posted by Betty on Monday, October 1, 2018, In : Dan's Blogs 
Watching Disney's "Frozen" reminds us that somewhere in the world, there's more snow than just shave ice in a bowl. Shave ice is Hawaii's way of remembering what winter is like elsewhere. In fact, my favorite winter (i.e. shave ice) is Waialua dark chocolate flavor. Yumm. Now that's what I call winter.

Being originally from Alaska, I'm often asked why I moved to Hawaii. Sunshine, tradewinds, sweet smelling flowers, lots of great ballroom and latin dancing. I'm equally often asked if I miss Al...
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WRITER's UNBLOCK

Posted by Dan on Tuesday, September 16, 2014, In : Dan's Blogs 
It's been awhile, and you might be wondering what Betty and I are doing. I'll let Betty "kiss and tell" in her posting. For me, I've been being a good author. 

You probably know about my two children's books, A WHALE'S TALE (Savant 2009) and THE TURTLE DANCES (Savant 2013), at least I hope you do! If you haven't read them, now is the time! They're available world-wide from Amazon.com. The first is about ohana (Hawaiian for "family"), and the second is about enjoying moving -- "dance, dance, da...
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THE WHALES AT TURTLE BAY?

Posted by Betty and Dan on Tuesday, February 4, 2014, In : Dan's Blogs 
Yeah, here we are at the famous Turtle Bay Resort on the north shore of Oahu for four days of well-deserved R & R. And, yeah, we've been watching one after another humpback whale spout, jump, slap the water with fins and tails, and otherwise go crazy. But, alas, we've not seen a single turtle. 

Three or so years ago when we visited there were plenty of turtles. Now, nary a one! So, with nothing else to do here but relax, I've put on my thinking cap and come up with some possible explanations f...
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Christmas Time is Here

Posted by Dan and Betty on Saturday, December 28, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Call me old-fashioned, but Christmas, especially here in Hawaii, is one of my number-one, ichiban, best-ever holiday. While in much of the world, it's only one day, in Hawaii, it lasts a month or more to the New Year. 

Christmas begins around Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving holiday in Hawaii being more of a thanks giving for the Christmas holidays. Next comes Christmas shopping. Welcoming the humpback whales back to Hawaii. Volunteering with your favorite charity. Watching Santa come to Hawaii on a...
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More Turtles, Turtles, Turtles!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Saturday, November 16, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 


I've just received my order of 60 turtles from Fiesta: one turtle per THE TURTLE DANCES book. At the Savant Bookstore Honolulu, it's exclusively $16.95 for the book and a turtle. Hurry before they all crawl out of the box and disappear!  Savant Bookstore Honolulu:

Fridays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at Hawaii Kai Retirement Center (free parking);
Saturdays from 9 a.m. to noon at Kokua Market (free parking, too).

See you there! Just say Dan sent you!

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Turtles, Turtles, Turtles! Awesome!

Posted by Dan and Betty on Wednesday, October 23, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Now that my new children's Color-Me-Please book, THE TURTLE DANCES (Savant 2013), has been released, I'm out looking for some stuffed animals to include along with the book. They've got to be realistic (I'm a naturalist) and yet cute and cuddly (after all, Isla, the dancing turtle and her dance partner, Surf, are beautiful turtles in looks and heart). While I haven't yet fully decided, I'm favoring these GUNDimals turtles. 


What do you think? Have you read my new book about Isla, the Hawaiian ...

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The Ecological Perspective!!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Tuesday, July 30, 2013, In : Betty's Blogs 
When I read Dan's Blog tonight, I remembered a class I took calle, "The Ecological Perspective."  During this course I had to give a five-minute presentation for my final. The title of mine was "Geckoes and Humans Coexist in Hawaii." From the ecological perspective, domestic households in Hawaii commonly include humans and geckos.

I actually dislike geckoes. One day after I moved to Hawaii, I looked up at the celling and saw a small off-white colored creature looking down at me. I screamed. I ...
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My Husband, Dan!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Friday, June 7, 2013, In : Betty's Blogs 
Aloha!

I write in English tonight,too.  When I went to my interview, I realized that I want to improve English more so I tried to write my Blog in English.  This is challenging for me and how much I can write it in English.
May be I will write my Blog in Japanese tomorrow.  I already am tired to write my Blog in English.

Today, I write about part one of my husband.  Dan, 
American, my husband and I met in California (CA). When my lady friend and I went to social dance class at YMCA in Berkeley CA...
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Fowl Weather

Posted by Betty and Dan on Thursday, June 6, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Betty and I moved to Hawaii in 1993, and for the next 14 years (7 x 2) the weather here has been warmer, surprisingly with less rain. In 1993, the pattern was, starting in January, cool and dry, slowly warming and getting more humid to September, when it was very humid and very hot. Then the rains would come. Tropical storms with occasional hurricanes the dumped so much water at a time, we sometimes had to stop driving, being unable to see anything several feet in front of the windshield. Now...
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Going Apple Bananas!

Posted by Betty and Dan on Saturday, June 1, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
A banana is a banana is a banana, right? I used to think that when I lived on the mainland (contiguous 48 U. S. states), but when I moved to Hawaii I learned different. Hawaii has: plantains, commercial bananas, baby commercial bananas, organic bananas, ice cream banana and apple bananas. Of the them all, apple bananas are my favorite. 

Apple bananas are "local" fare. They're smaller, firmer, and slightly orange-red when bitten into. They have a crisp, clean taste (the way apples do) with no h...
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What Color is a Hawaiian Green Sea Turtle?

Posted by Betty and Dan on Thursday, May 16, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
Okay - the answer must be green, Right?

Wrong! 

I've been turtle-watching for over 5 years now all along the Oahu coastline, and Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles range from light grey to yellow to green (yes) to brown to almost black. Why is that? I've no idea, but I can vouch for the spread in color with direct observations. So why do they call these cute, solitary, largely vegetarian turtles Hawaiian Green Sea Turtles? I think it's because we become green with envy at how sweet-natured, easy-going...
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The Turtle Dances

Posted by Betty and Dan on Monday, May 6, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
I don't think I've shared that I'm a multi-award-winning author of a variety of books ranging from non-ficition educational works to poetry collections to novels and children's books. My first children's book, SOURDOUGH SCOTT'S BEDTIME FAIRYTALES FROM ALASKA (Publication Consultants, 2005) is a collection of three "modern" fairy tales I made up and told around campfires throughout Alaska until someone suggested I write them down for posterity. 

That done, I wrote a non-fiction education work, ...
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Special Lunch and Dinner for a Working Woman

Posted by Betty and Dan on Monday, April 22, 2013, In : Dan's Blogs 
I enjoyed making lunch and dinner today for Betty. It's her day off and she deserves it. She works so hard. I appreciate her.

For lunch we had Danish "open-face" sandwiches. Each small sandwich was one quarter of a slice of toasted rye bread, with mayonnaise, fresh ground pepper, and special toppings. These included "spicy tuna" (Hawaiian "pupu" or appetizer; Japanese sashimi), Italian prosciutto, or Roma tomato slice. Then, from our garden either a leaf of Manoa lettuce, basil, mint or shiso...
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