I do believe one of the rules of successful blogging is to post at least once a week. Ha! So I am doing unsuccessful blogging and not stressing about it. When my techie son comes in October (from Portugal!), I will ask him to reinstall Google adsense which places ads on my website – but I want more subtle ads – like maybe only one on a page.
Older and maybe wiser, but more forgetful
I got older – but I think I am a bit healthier because I take exercise classes at the Kaimuki YMCA. I take the Silver and Fit chair/weights/resistance bands classes on Tuesday and Wednesday with Yoli. She plays the best music and makes all of us energized and happy. TaiChi got moved to 6:45 am – yikes! So I only do the Thursday afternoon practice session with Mike. I just stopped doing Jazzercise because I have more morning events at the Hawaii Potter’s Guild, the pace was too energetic for me since my speed is TaiChi and sit down stuff.
Moving and change
My move from upstairs to downstairs is complete but I still have SO much stuff! I donate to Re-Use Hawaii (temporarily closed while they find a place to relocate) and Savers (senior discount of 30% on Tuesdays!). And I began selling on ebay under 3 user names – bead_bozu, thcollection, and honoluluaunty. Why 3 user names? Not sure – but I have always made my life more complicated than it needs to be. Ebay has gotten even easier to list items for sale and is helping me clear out things that my kids won’t want (which makes me sad).
I now have 2 cute hapa grandsons and 1 cute hapa granddaughter. But I do not babysit. I am being selfish and want to have my own time to do what I want. I do occasionally watch the 2 little ones since they live upstairs from me. But boy! parenting is such hard work! I had 4 young ones and I really don’t remember how I got through each day and the passing years.
And now, the tip of the day!
We have young new neighbors across the street. Chika and her family bought the house that used to have single guys who did short term rentals and the yard was a mess with bushes of haole koa as well as cars everywhere. They really cleaned up the yard, renovated the house, and trimmed the trees so it now looks great! And she loves to do yardwork – just like me!
So one day I was clearing out a patch of weeds to make room for a puakenikeni tree. I had so many keiki haole koa growing – and those roots are deep and tough to pull. Chika saw me struggling and came over with an old plier and started pulling out ALL of them very quickly and rather easily!
It was AMAZING!
So that is the tip of the day. Save your old pliers and put them in your gardening tool bag. Below are pictures of roots that I would never have been able to remove without disturbing the root ball of a night blooming jasmine tree that I was given. They were just skinny deep roots that were part of a grass weed that could have become a problem, but are now exterminated. Thank you to young Chika! Goes to show that you can teach an old dog aunty new tricks!
Loved this catch-up post and tip.
Been enjoying my break from blogging. I hope to become like you and not be so rigid about always posting.
I going check out your eBay stuff now, ’cause I’m nosy like that.
Blog when you want! We will still follow you.
eBay is funky. Sometimes things that I think are junk sell for lots and some things that are valuable sell for nothing. I plan to get rid of a LOT of stuff. Getting better and faster at listing.
Pliers? Who would have thunk it? Sounds like you have wonderful neighbors.
I don’t babysit since my grandkids are so very far away.
You are so active and healthy. I’ve started walking after dinner which has really improved my fasting glucose in the morning. I need to be more like you. I’m having a hard time remembering my tai chi steps. My granddaughter can’t believe how I can forget when she has to remember the steps to several dances she has to perform. Ahhh well…
I do have wonderful neighbors. We had a meet the neighbors event earlier this year and it was so nice having the old meet the new.
I LOOK healthy but my bad habits are now catching up to me. Coca Cola is my biggest vice and not eating enough veggies. I do have better energy since I started exercising at the YMCA. This week I zoomed in to Silver and Fit classes because I have this very irritating cough. Zooming is great! I could zoom into TaiChi also but I need a 360° view since there are turns and I need someone to follow. I can only do the first section by myself. I totally forget what comes next.
I do that plier thing! I use needle nose pliers to get the small weedy grass growing next and between the roots.
And, I am doing or trying to do the upstairs downstairs thing too. trying to clear out 41 years of treasures (yah, right!) so I can remodel. fortunately my contractor is not pushing me to start. Fortunately, I don’t have/want grandchildren but a couple of granddogs might move in upstairs when I finish remodeling.
I think over 30 years ago or more, I signed up for classes with the HI Potters Guild. Would you believe only THIS year they called and said they had an opening!!! LOL , if I wasn’t desperately trying to downsize, I might have said I was still interested making small planters.
Ah, you knew already! And needle nose pliers would be great for the skinny stuff!
You mean Hawaii Potters Guild called you and you signed up 30 years ago? Very strange. As a member, I get priority for the class lotteries and they denied me at first. What class did they offer you?
What size small planters would you want to make? What kind of plants?
maybe they called before but I never answered the phone and didn’t have an answering machine at home.
I used to go to Potters Pantry and make little bowls, ashtrays, small vases, etc.
I just threw out my clay implements because I am trying to clean to remodel and put my bowls in the goodwill bin, LOL
I love houseplants for my office and home but plan to retire next year so trying to downsize both.