Pam Lamont is up and at 'em!

[pslamont]

Spent most of the day terrorizing the husband. Also enlisted a neighbor boy. We hauled out the rest of the falling apart tables from the first room... just rotte with age. WE managed to build and install the new ones and coat them in spar varnish. i think I will be building shelves under at least one to sotore food and supplies but wow. it's getting better. I would say at least 1/4 of the weed mes is gone. day by day..... tiny job by tiny job. Also have green beans, lettuce, tomato statures coming up and the first whispers of bell peppers and cucumbers. How wonderful!.

This of course means tons more work to prep the growing area for the things coming up but it will be weeks before they are ready to transplant. Watching life happen is good for my inner spiirit.

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[pslamont]

It's a joy to see.... green beans are 2 inches tall, lettuce is abundant in the seed tray, probably 1000+ roma tomatoes are an inch tall and there are little hints of bell peppers and cucumbers. Today started trays of bok and pak choy plus cilantro. Ummmmmm..... every day we see progress. Today I had company to help water and ooh and ahhh over the starts. Next will be shelves under our tables. Probably get out and measure tomorrow if I can get the truck unloaded of the giant load of papaya I scored today. Too tired this afternoon to try it myself. Tomorrow is soon enough unless some neighborhood kids show up.... they do once in a while. I think the rest of the afternoon is devoted to a hot shower, a good book and marinating steaks for Bob. It's only 2 pm but feels like 5. guss I am working more... good for the body. /but as renee cautions, take breaks, rest in between. It WILL all be there tomorrow.

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[unknownjulie]

HI, Pam! How are you feeling? I was just reading 18 pages of introductions on an old thread (um, yeah, home with the kids and I daresay a wee bit bored) and read your thread, and realized you are uniquely qualified to answer some employment questions I have. How do you think the job situation for RN's on the BI is these days? It seems to me to be absolutely terrible and I met at least 8 new grad nurses last year, and some with experience also- who were all unemployed. And my second question involves secondary school SPED teachers. Did your husband ever get back into his profession here on the island? The job situation there seems more promising, but I read today they are probably cutting out a lot of those extra instruction hours in Keaau. HOw does your husband feel about team teaching? Or did he prefer to work in his own SPED classroom. Mahalo!

[pslamont]

Julie, sent you an email. Are you on islan or not? If you are here or coming soon, call me and we can get together. Pam 345 8440

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[unknownjulie]

HI, just sent an email. I live in hilo, but own a lot in ORchidland that I'm trying to figure out what to do with!

[pslamont]

with the assistance of my sponsors from transitions division of Hospice.... I got 80 baby roma tomatoes planted and 3/4 of the hot room of the greenhouse cleared! wow what a job. I am so sore today I can barely move but it is so rewarding to see the dead stuff and junk gone and neat rows of tomatoes lined up. We are calling it Garden therapy. Lots more to do but NOT TODAY!! Need to rest in between. It made me very happy to go water it all this morning. Also have found a day laborer.. young man with girlfriend, baby and another on th way. Hw WANTS TO WORK and does yard work well. He busted his okole for 7 hours here and cleared a 5 foot circle around every one of 50+ trees in my orchard. If anyone needs yardwork done he is available on sat and sun... (he will work for me on fridays and has a part time job at the papaya plant Mon thru Thurs). Let me knowme know. Pam 345 8440

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[pslamont]

Went up to the greenhouse this afternoon... it is POURING here. The tomatoes ar all happy! I espected to see som slumped from so much moving and handling byt every ne looks wonderful, standing up straight. I have at least 20+ mre in the seeding tray if anyne wants roma tomatoes. The seedig trays of green beans, cilantro, bok choy and pak choy, lettuce are all abundantly coming up. Some slower but still germination f bell peppers is happening. Only though one is cucumbers so moved the seed tray to the hot house side to see if they are mre stimulated. A few days should tell. Anyhow, am enjoying my "garden therapy".

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[pslamont]

Gardening Therapy continues.... transplanted 100 heads of lettuce. I might have messed up as they were a little young to transplant... but I hav a fourth of a tray to replace anything that doesn't make it..... I will just let the tray continue to get bigger!.... sure maks for a lot of watering in addition to my other stuff!

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[pslamont]

My absolute and sincere thanks t Arlene and Julie from the transitions division of Hospice who are helping me to" transition" back into functional life. The greenhouse is incredible again. We have more work to do but it is clean, 70% planted with lettuce green beans, tomatoes, bok choy, pak choy, and are getting ready to work on the cilantro, cucumbers, short stubby carrots and who knows what else. It's a miracle. AS things are so cleaned up and weeds gone, when you walk into the greenhouse now you are hit with the smells of the basil, the oregano, rosemary...... it is very very satisfying. Thank you ladies for your help and thank you to all of you for being so encouraging. I admit I am weak but getting stronger each week, have learned to be a bit patient and just give in to my body, stopping in the middle of the day for a hot shower and a nap when I need to. Life is good

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"

[pslamont]

Arlene, my wonderful Hospice/Transitions heled me plant a bout 40 green bean starts in the raised beds 9bush bean type) whch required moving soil from a planting bed that needed to be emptied to be repaired Hubby joined me for watering and to see the incredible rogrss we have been making and did another soil "load into one gallon garden buckets" for planting the next sprouted tray of about 40 or 50 mor beans. He dug and oared I carried and dumped then lanted it all. My goodness... the greenhouse is amazing. My heart is bursting with happiness to see the product of hard work. Okay, now t move the 50 lb bags of chicken scratch..... then I get my shower and nap!!

I want to be the kind of woman that, when my feet
hit the floor each morning, the devil says

"Oh Crap, She's up!"