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Photo Contest! Where Are Your Slippahs?!

Richard Ha writes:

It’s time for another photo contest.

We want to see your favorite shot of where all the rubbah slippahs gather at your place.

Maybe it’s that spot just outside the back door. You know where it is. The place where everybody leaves their slippahs when they come over.

So take some photos and give us your best shot. Send your favorites to leslie@leslielang.com by Friday, February 6, 2015.

We’ll announce a winner shortly after that.

The prize is the satisfaction of knowing you won.

We can’t wait to see what you’ve got!

TO RECAP:

For the contest, we are looking for a photo of where your slippahs all congregate. Not just a pair of slippahs. Take a photo of that big mess of slippahs right outside the door, when everyone is home or when everybody comes over.

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Photo Captions

Richard Ha writes:

Taking a minute to show you captions that came in for that photo we posted last week. I’m listing them alphabetically.

Here’s the photo again:

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The Invisible Rubba Slippa People  (From Mitch Ewan)

Eh bra…check da slippa line!  (From Keith Garrison)

When the Rapture came, the guys on the chairs were deemed unworthy (From Richard Gozinya)

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These are very clever! Thanks for playing.

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Caption This Photo!

Caption this picture! Send us your caption by this Friday, March 22, 2013. Submit your caption to leslie@leslielang.com.

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Your prize? The inner satisfaction that comes with knowing you are clever and a quick wit!

Really, it's just for fun. So fire away! We'll share some of them here.

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Did You Win Our Caption Contest?

Richard Ha writes:

Announcing the winners of our photo caption contest, which we announced last week.

First, here's the video that the caption was for:

We had four winners. Here they are, in alphabetical order:

 

Richard Gozinya:   A lot of magical stuff happens and then…poof!…out comes the biodiesel.


Rico Reed:   Fresh running photo-shop!

 

Baron Sekiya:   Ho brah! Check out da video I went shoot of dis faucet. I bin watchin' dis ting all week in da office…UNREAL!!! Da bucket neva even ova-flow once wit water! How dey do dat?

 

Brendan Shriane:   Sherwin-Williams' invisible paint might just work a little too well. 

 

I got a real kick out of these.

The prizes? Rubbah slippahs, of course! At one of the recent PUC hearings, a friend of mine donated three grocery bags full of rubbah slippahs.

To our four winners: Give me a call on my cell phone, 960-1057, to claim your prize. Please really do call, because I would like to talk to each of you.

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Caption Contest Winners!

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It’s blog editor Leslie Lang here with the winners of our caption contest.

Here is the picture for which we asked you to supply a caption:

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You’ll recall that Richard asked me to choose the winner, ostensibly so he wouldn’t be swayed by friends or family. But now I’m thinking he just remembered how hard it is to pick a winner!

We had lots of entries, and there were some really clever ones. It was hard, but I narrowed them down. I stripped the names off my top four, showed Richard and tried to get him to help me decide which one was the best one.

He read them, laughed and announced a four-way tie.

So here are the four winning captions and the winners’ names. They are not in any order (except alphabetical):

• And the four little piggies cried ‘Auwe!’ all the way home  – Maia Nilsson

• Dinner on the run – Patrick Kahawaiolaa

• Finally, Porky was able to fulfill a lifelong dream: to recreate the cover of the Abbey Road album – Baron Sekiya

• Hey Ralph… are they stopping for us, or did that oil thing peak out? – Wally Andrade

Congratulations to Maia, Patrick, Baron and Wally. If you are on the Big Island, please call Richard at 960-1057 and make arrangements to pick up your prize: a box of fresh, mixed Hamakua Springs vegetables.

If you are not located here, then we send you our heartiest congratulations, and unless you have plans to come to the Big Island we’ll have to leave it at that (as we mentioned in the first post; sorry!).

And thanks to everybody for the submissions. It was fun.
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CONTEST! Write a Caption & Win a Prize

Richard Ha writes:

It’s another caption contest! (Here’s a link to the winners of our last caption contest.)

Pigs

I took this photo yesterday, when I had to stop for a family of four pigs crossing the road in Hilo. I think they were going to a picnic in the mac nut fields.

Write a caption for this photo and send it to “leslie@leslielang.com.” Leslie, who helps with this blog, will judge the contest in order to keep things impartial. So you can enter even if you are friends or family of mine, and I will only step in if there’s a tie and we need a tie-breaker.

The winner can come by the farm for some fresh Hamakua Springs veggies, if they live locally. If you win but live at a distance, you might have to just bask in the glory from afar.

Pleae submit your entries by midnight HST on Monday, June 25, 2012. We’ll announce the winner here soon after that.

And have fun! We look forward to hearing what you come up with

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Merrie Monarch 2011

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Hilo just finished hosting hula dancers and admirers from around the world at its annual Merrie Monarch hula festival.

It’s so great to see how Hilo comes alive for that Merrie Monarch week, which is held each year around Easter. The streets overflow with people, many of them Hawaiian, in their designer aloha wear, flower leis and lauhala hats. Everything that is good about the place — the people, the leis, the music, the dancing — is magnified and multiplied. It’s everywhere. It’s wonderful.

From Wikipedia:

The Merrie Monarch Festival is a week-long cultural festival that takes place annually in Hilo, Hawaii. It honors King David Kalākaua, who was called the “Merrie Monarch” for his patronage of the arts. He is credited with restoring many Hawaiian cultural traditions during his reign, including the hula. Many hālau hula (schools), including some from the U.S. mainland and Japan, attend the festival each year to participate in the festival exhibitions and competitions, which are considered the most prestigious of all hula contests. Read the rest

The hula always starts on Wednesday, with a free Ho‘ike (demonstration) night. Watch this year’s Ho‘ike highlights from Big Island Video News here, and some of Halau O Kekuhi’s dances from that night here. They are renowned, and what a treat to see them.

Some other videos from this year’s Merrie Monarch:

This is Halau Hula O Kahikilaulani, of Hilo (It’s their kahiko performance)

Chinky Mahoe’s Kawaili‘ula, from Kailua, O‘ahu (kahiko)

And there’s always a wonderful Merrie Monarch Parade through Hilo town. See some of that here: 2011 Merrie Monarch Festival Grand Parade

It’s never too soon to start thinking about attending Merrie Monarch the next year, if you’re interested. Mark your calendars: tickets are available to purchase by mail only, and your ticket requests must be postmarked on December 26 or later. (If they are mailed later, you might not get seats; it’s best if you email your request on 12/26 exactly.)

Ticketing info is not yet updated for the 2012 festival, but watch this space later in the year if you’re interested in knowing exactly how to order.

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And The Winner Is….

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Here is the photo for our photo caption contest again:

Chickens

We have a 1st place winner, and three people who tied for second place.

Richard is a generous soul with a good sense of humor, and so he’s going to be packing up four boxes of fresh, delicious Hamakua Springs vegetables.

1st place:

  • Rodrigo Romo. “Listen up kids, you’re about to learn why we cross the road, remember, no one can know about this…..”

2nd place, a three-way tie (in alphabetical order):

  • Kanani Aton. “Gosh darned it, now where did I put those keys?”
  • John C. “If we all work together I think we can get into that Sweet-Sour Lemon Peel jar behind me.”
  • CTarleton. “Double Wing Right 35 Quick Trap – Go chicks!”

Each of you can pick up a prize box from Richard at the Kino‘ole Farmers Market any Saturday morning. Please let him know which Saturday you’ll be there, so he can have the box ready for you, by emailing him ahead of time at richard@hamakuasprings.com.

Congratulations to all that entered and thanks for the laughs! You guys are great.

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It’s Another Caption Contest!

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Remember our first caption contest? It was last April, and it was a kick.

Here’s another one.

And here are the details: Leave your caption in the comments to this post by Sunday, 2/28/10 at midnight. The winner will be announced in a blog post here on Monday, 3/1, and will receive a box of the freshest and tastiest Hamakua Springs produce. Having been the occasional recipient of one of those boxes, let me assure you that they are really wonderful.

You shouldn’t enter if you are a close family member of Richard’s or mine, because that just wouldn’t be right and no matter how funny you are, you won’t be selected as a winner. Other than that, we’ll read ’em and we’ll choose the one we like best. Straightforward.

Here’s the photo. Go to it!

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