11-18-17 Sat.

Aloha! November is a rainy month her on the North Shore of Oahu. I would say that 6 out of the past 7 days have been intermittent showers and windy. Yesterday was the good day, no rain and light breeze. Here is a pic I took at Wiamea Bay, looking 180 degrees from the water. This is Wiamea stream. There is one house built into the hillside, see if you can find it.

 I took the next pic as I was checking out the beaches. This was taken just North of Sunset Beach. I wanted to fly out and video that little Island, but it was to windy.

No matter where you look there is beauty in God's Creation. When driving from Haleiwa Town heading North, just before you get to Laniadea beach there is a ranch on the right side. Every time I see this beautiful tree, it reminds me of how God takes the simple things and makes them so beautiful.

 I am heading to the South side of the Island to video places that were special for Harriet and I. We would like driving and taking in all the beautiful sights.

If you go to my you tube channel you can view all the video's I have posted. Just type in: Frank Kovacs and click on my picture.

Have a great weekend and don't forget to be in the House of the Lord on Sunday.

Maranatha,

Frank

11-11-17 Sat.

Aloha! I arrived on Tuesday to the North Shore of Oahu. Staying at a little studio apt. Twice the size of the hotel room we used to stay at in Waikiki and almost half the price. Great location between Waimea Bay and The Pipeline.

Of course I have to have a bacon picture here. I really like Haleiwa cafe.

There is a nice size swell that moved in yesterday. I took videos with my drone for over 3 hours. I am heading back there this morning.  Here is the link if you are interested. Best viewed on a large smart TV. The color of the waves, reef and surrounding area is great.

https://youtu.be/43paQaEBOMQ

Here is a sunset from my location plus 300 ft, take with my Phantom 4 Pro

Waimea Bay, totally flat taken from a sacred spot 300 ft above over looking the bay. They used to offer human sacrifices up until about 200 years ago.

This is a picture I took in 2006, the Shore break at Killer Waimea.

This is the view driving to the North Shore, the trees are so beautiful!

The weather is good, it sprikles a little a few times a day, but very nice. I really miss my Girl to share the beauty of God's Creation! Yes, I still love my Girl!

Ok, I am going to bail out. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Don't forget to be in the House of the Lord this Sunday.

Maranatha!
Frank and Harriet

11-4-17 Sat.

This past week was extremely busy. I'm trying to get everything done before I leave on Tuesday morning for a vacation.

Today is Big Al's memorial service. It's 11 AM at Sonrise. I hope you can make it if you knew brother Al. What a great guy!

Yesterday evening pastor Jack had a men's dinner at his house. There were as I would guess about 75 people are so there. It was really nice. He lives in Alpine and has a huge backyard. Set up tables and those outdoor propane heaters that you see it restaurants that have outdoor seating.

I wanted to show you how I dust the floor. I drag Ethan around by his foot. What great kids I sure enjoy them. I took them to see the new Thor movie that came out yesterday. I thought the movie was disappointing but it's just fun to be with the boys.

Hopefully by next Saturday I'll have some new pictures for you of Hawaii. They're supposed to be a Pipe Masters surf contest starting on November 12 through the 24th, so I will be able to see and video a lot of it. I just hope we get some big waves.

I hope you have a great weekend and Maranatha!

Frank

10-28-17 Sat.

Last Sunday I went to Tanner and Breanna's home to celebrate their son Lincoln's 2nd birthday. I've got some pictures and I want to share them with you. Many of you know them and their extended families.
This is Lincoln and Linette. Linette is Breanna's mother.

This is Tony and Lincoln. Tony and Linette are married and are the proud grandparents. Lincoln is a beautiful baby!

This theme for the birthday party was "Construction". Tony has a business of pool excavation. So people were supposed to bring things along those lines and I didn't get the message. I got Lincoln some Lincoln logs. Here you can see the birthday cake and it's supposed to be like a little construction site. Very cool.

This next picture is my favorite. Lincoln is looking through this cardboard cutout Tractor.

Here is Lincoln eating his birthday cake with a tractor and if you notice that Lincoln puts the cake in the bucket of the tractor, very cute.

Lincoln sharing his tractor.

Lots of nice people there and it was just a great time to be with friends and enjoy the little guy.

Yesterday morning I spent with Samuel and Ethan. I picked them up a little after 9 AM and took them on my Friday morning errands. One of things I do is to go by my dads house and make sure everything is in order. Then we came back to my place and watched another episode, of "The Flash". I made the kids popcorn and then we had Natchoes. There really sweet kids and I love them so much. We have a great time together.
This is Ethan watching TV and he has this cat statue he likes to have sitting with him while watching the movie. Looks like he's having a good time. The cat is not real.

I had to have Samuel pose in the same way his brother is posing. Samuel is a really good helper and very intelligent. I love my boys!

It's almost 4 AM on Saturday morning I'm going to head out to the beach and shoot some videos if it's not foggy. I have to run the batteries down on my drones I'm taking with me to Hawaii because it's the proper protocol when shipping them.

Lots of things to do this next week. A week from today will be Brother Al's memorial service. It will be at Sonrise Community Church, starting at 11 AM. I would recommend getting there 15 minutes early because it will be packed.

That's it for this morning I hope everyone has a great weekend.

Maranatha,
Frank

10-21-17 Sat.

The top of the morning to you! I can't forget to do the blog 2 weeks in a row.

I didn't mention to you but a few weeks ago I was asked to speak to a small group at church. The small group is called, "Hope and Encouragement". It's for people who have lost a spouse or someone like a family member. Everybody was very nice. I had the opportunity to share my experiences and then give encouragement through God's Word.

The waves have been pretty poor. There's a swell coming in at the beginning of next week and hopefully something will materialize so that Larry and I can go down and do some videoing.

I am working out the final details in my trip to Hawaii in November. Unfortunately you can only take 2 batteries with you on  the plane and you're not supposed to put a lot of batteries in your luggage that is stored in the belly of the plane. Maybe you recall how a plane had a fire due to a battery that was not properly packaged and shorted out. I'm taking both of my drones and that's a total of 18 batteries. When transporting them I will discharge them to 10% or less (that is the proper protocol). I don't know if this is interesting to you or not, because it's such a unusual situation. I contacted the person that I'm renting the little house from on the North Shore and I will ship the batteries in separate boxes to her in advance of my arrival.

While I'm there I'm hoping to post some more exciting pictures than I had in recent weeks to this blog. Usually there are some good storms in the northern Pacific ocean that generate some nice size swells for Hawaii during this time of year. I just looked on the surf line website and it is projecting 18 feet at the Pipeline for this coming Monday.

Lots to do between now and then. We have Brother Al's memorial service on November 4th. What a great guy he is!

I hope that you'll be in the house of the Lord this Sunday to worship the Creator, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, because he is worthy!

Maranatha,
Frank

10-14-17 Sat. Afternoon

No I'm not dead, yet. I got a call at 5 PM this evening from my friend Larry and he was asking me if I put the blog out today because it didn't come up on his cell phone. I so forgot. This is the first time in over three years that I forgot. Well, I guess were allowed a little bit of grace, but not much, right.

It's really kind of funny because during the week I think about things that I can include in the blog and then sometimes when it comes to Saturday I've forgotten them. I think I need to write them down.

I don't think I shared this picture with you. Last week when Larry and I went to Windansea to video the waves and the surfers, this was the full moon that had not set yet. Normally I don't like to turn the camera and take pictures this way, but in this case it's the only way I could get the moon in and the foreground.

Often times I peruse through my files looking for something and I come across  pictures like this one. This is the backwash hitting the shore break at sandy beach in Hawaii in 2015.

My brain is completely drawing a blank. I think I will have to close the blog post and hopefully this next week I will be able to take some notes so that next week's blog will be more interesting.

God bless you and you know what day is tomorrow, the Lord's Day! I hope that you will be in the Lord's house worshiping the creator and our redeemer Jesus Christ

Maranatha,
Frank
PS. I love you Harriet

10-7-17 Sat.

This was the view yesterday morning when we arrived at Windansea in La Jolla. We finally got a swell, it has been a few months. It is a SSW swell which does not hit Del Mar as it does this break. It is supposed to be 7' today. So we are heading out there in about half an hour.
Here is a link to the video we took yesterday: https://youtu.be/tCvU_FtmnLI
You can copy and paste it into your browser if you want.

My friends Brad, Karen and Little Kylie camped at Santee Lakes.

Brad has this electric cart and the dog likes to ride in it.......with it's tail drags on the ground.

They had Brother Al, my Pal's military service on Tuesday, God bless the family!

I hope you have a wonderful weekend, Maranatha,
Frank
 Yes, I still miss my Girl.