{"id":1894,"date":"2023-06-05T13:51:49","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T13:51:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/?p=1894"},"modified":"2023-06-05T14:21:20","modified_gmt":"2023-06-05T14:21:20","slug":"mochis-birthday-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/?p=1894","title":{"rendered":"Mochi&#8217;s Birthday Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/play1.PNG\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/play1.PNG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2159\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We began my Birthday Weekend On Friday (two days after my Birthday Day) by going out to eat as a family and then walking over to Lost Nation Theater to see the play<strong><em> &#8220;My Mother&#8217;s Three Mothers&#8221;<\/em><\/strong> written my Ambiana and Jakobi&#8217;s Musical Director and U-32 Middle and High School Drama Teacher.  It was very moving, a story of adoption and what it means to be family or sometimes not. It resonated a lot with Colleen&#8217;s own story of re-connecting with her birth parents Kris and Mark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/home1.JPG\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/home1.JPG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2162\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Saturday was Birthday Party Night @ the Long House on Eagle Ledge.  The sauna was hot at 4pm and I statred making Pizza&#8217;s from the Ooni Pizza Oven up on the Long House Deck at 5:30PM. Guests arrived, took a sauna or not, ate some Pizza and hing out on the deck. Ambiana and Jakobi had invited friends so it was an intergenerational party.  At 8Pm the dancing began to a 2hr 56m curated playlist unspooling chronologically through the years from 1976 up to the present day.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of my favorite memories from the night will be the first song which I had debated taking off the playlist that very day because maybe it was not danceable but what the fuck I wanted to start the dance party with a Rock-the-Fuck-Out Rock Song and Ted Nugent&#8217;s &#8220;Free For All&#8221; struck the right note. So that song led off, surging foth from the soundsystem up in the loft of the long house and to my utter joy &amp; amazement the teen-agers jumped right in and rocked-the-fuck-out with me!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I danced to every song as guests came and went and the tides of dancers ebbed and flowed until it was just me Thomas &amp; Jakobi at 10:56PM joining Tara &amp; Colleen at the fire on the Little Deck when the music ended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">Breakfast Is My Boyfriend<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/BreakfastismyBoyfriend.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ambiana and Jakobi sang this birthday song for me inspired by Taylor Swift&#8217;s &#8220;Karma&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/compost1.JPG\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/compost1.JPG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2161\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Spring Chores: Digging out the 2021-22 Compost Pile to spread on our berries and fruit trees!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/BLOSSOMS.JPG\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/BLOSSOMS.JPG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2164\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We had a colder May then in Past Years and the Apple Blossoms did not appear until the last week of May!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/book.PNG\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/book.PNG\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2163\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My Sauna Book is available on AMAZON. Search Sauna Mochi Kaimu. I have sold 9 and received my first royalty check  for the sale of 3 books in March!  I did the math and if I sell 10,000 books in a year I will make the same amount of $$$ I am making now by working for Farmers To You.  That doesn&#8217;t seem like a lot of books on a planet of almost 8,000,000,000 humans.  I need to figure out a marketing plan. Get in touch if you can offer advice or help! 9,991 more books to sell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center\">J.B. on the prowl<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"http:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/JB.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Our neighbor up on Shpard Hill sent me this surveillance video of JB on their property.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_9596\"><div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1894-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"none\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/star_trek_discovery\/p\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/BreakfastismyBoyfriend.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/star_trek_discovery\/p\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/BreakfastismyBoyfriend.mp4\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/star_trek_discovery\/p\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/BreakfastismyBoyfriend.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp4\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/star_trek_discovery\/p\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/BreakfastismyBoyfriend.mp4\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/?powerpress_pinw=1894-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/star_trek_discovery\/s\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/images\/2023\/JUNE\/BreakfastismyBoyfriend.mp4\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"BreakfastismyBoyfriend.mp4\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribeonandroid.com\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_android\" title=\"Subscribe on Android\" rel=\"nofollow\">Android<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/?feed=podcast\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We began my Birthday Weekend On Friday (two days after my Birthday Day) by going out to eat as a family and then walking over to Lost Nation Theater to see the play &#8220;My Mother&#8217;s Three Mothers&#8221; written my Ambiana &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/?p=1894\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1894"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1894\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mochiandcolleen.com\/eagleledge\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}