Mini veggie garden

I have a great pot, but it doesn't drain well and is need of more potting soil.

I just happen to have half a bag stored in an outdoor bench. As I reached to grab it, something loud moved inside the storage bench and I saw a gaping hole in the bag.

I admit that I am not a fan of bugs, but this hole is a bit big and makes me think it could be a mouse or rat! Ewww! I have made a request for someone braver than I to reach in and take out the soil and add it nicely to my veggie garden pot.

Is it possible to be a gardener and not like bugs? I know I should get myself a healthy crop of earthworms to, there is so much to learn.

Speaking of learning, I was so excited to tell my gardening guru, Diane, about my lettuce that it was growing so nice and tall, like a tree. She informed me, it was bolting and to eat the leaves, it was going to die.

I love all my plants, and it does make me sad when they aren't doing well. If you had seen me worrying over my Chinese Lantern plant, which my mom said was a weed, but I vigilantly begged it to survive and kept moving it back and forth in sunny and shady spots until I finally thought, just to give it a final resting spot with my roses.

My roses aren't actually blooming, they just look like thorny green stems poking in various directions from two inch pots. At least they are green, it gives me hope they will sprout little buds soon. Maybe its a season thing, even though we don't really have seasons in Hawaii.

Oh my, I've rambled on too long. Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday!

Love and Aloha,
Maile
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Adventure Day 1

Monday was officially day one of Spring Break! In a serious effort to get my kids moving, we were up early...ummm this seemed to confuse them, as they whined that it wasn't a school day. I said, it's eight, not six thirty, wake up, I want to go for a bike ride.

Older son got up and started getting ready, younger son, ugh! Opposition and defiance. I made him choose an activity that he would promise to do if he wasn't going to join us on the bike ride, he finally agreed to walking in the afternoon. Fine.

The bike ride was a quick hour and a half. We really need more bike lanes and it needs to be safer for kids to ride in neighborhoods, especially around schools. Sorry, I went off track. Ummm?

Oh yes, the afternoon walk was great except for the complaining child that was refusing to go. I thought we had a deal?

He forced me to use my threatening scary mom voice! I really don't like doing that, but as it was for his own good and mine, I had no choice. As soon as we started the walk, he was great and really enjoyed it.

Reflecting back on the day, it was a good start to the possibility of getting my kids more active everyday. I'm hoping.

Okay, ready for adventure day 2? To be continued...

Wishing you an amazing day!
Aloha,
Maile

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Hawaii may be in serious trouble!

Hawaii may be in serious trouble. The world needs places like Hawaii to grow organic foods! True Organic in a perfect paradise conditions with our unique proximity to the equator and multiple climate zones, we can no longer ignore this issue. 

The world's food supply is at stake. What you and your family will be consuming for the rest of your life and there's should be everyone's number one priority. 

We truly can stop all illness. Healthy food will mean healthy populations, a healthy planet and the best future! 

Let's work together to finally voice our concerns and make healthier lifestyle changes that will benefit you and the world. 

You don't have to do it all in one day, and you are definitely not alone! Little steps to a healthier lifestyle, will make an impact to a better and healthier life. 

Save Hawaii...Save the planet...Save yourself! I'm not being overly dramatic, this is a serious issue that really scares me. I want everyone to be healthy, but how can you be healthy, when you eat your fruits and veggies that are genetically modified or worse? Why do so many chemical companies have so much control over acres of Hawaii's Land? Please pass on the link. Mahalo nui loa, Maile

 

The Legend of Surfing: Kelly Slater | Living an Organic Life

 

Wishing you your best health always.
Me ke aloha pumehana,
Maile

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Forever Young, Fit and Healthy!

I love spelling it out. Like a mantra I program my brain, my body, my life, and impact those around me by living this energy as best I can always!

This is my life! I have no idea how many days I get to live it and I'm going to enjoy it.

The first time I did something completely selfish was splurging $800 on lasik to correct my vision. Of course, if you know me, I hemmed and hawed and wished to correct my vision for years, but when I had kids, and thought, what if there was a fire in the middle of the night? I wouldn't be able to get my contacts in my head before saving them and me (no glasses, the gap between my eyes and the glass made me nausious- yeah I'm probably the only weird person on the planet who couldn't walk in glasses without being sick.)

Anyway, the fear of not being able to see my own hand in front of my face in the dark without my contacts, and thinking how was I going to find my children, that scared me straight.

So you get it, it actually took someone else's safety to correct my vision. Alright, not really selfish, but my best self was for their safety. Plus the thought of cutting my eyeballs scared me.

That may be overly dramatic, but I always think back to that series of thoughts when I want something, especially if it's expensive.

I have to know if it really is worth the financial strain it might take on my family if it truly is for them. Another big purchase was my treadmill. I am a serious researcher. Thanks to the internet and reviews from lots of consumers- I read reviews! I found the perfect treadmill. It took weeks to arrive and although I got a great deal on it, the shipping cost to Hawaii spent that.

It was worth every penny though! It was also a pain for my husband, his brother, my brother, and my dad to carry upstairs. I appreciate it so much.

Incorporating any large piece of gym equipment into your home, is always an adjustment. At first, everyone wants to play with the shiny new big toy. Then it sits unused in the corner as an over-priced laundry holder.

Then you clean up and try to get yourself back on track to achieving your health and wellness goals that insist these large pieces of exercise equipment deserve a giant section of valuable living room space in front of the television.

I have walked and walked and sometimes ran, uphill levels 1-9 and played with the exciting interval settings to make you think you are walking outdoors (I trip over my own shoes like I'm outdoors to). The television helps to distract me, but even better, my mini-me apple genius son, help hook up an old computer and now I have been multi-tasking and working, and walking. A little more challenging, anything to burn a few more calories.

My treadmill is several years old now, needs an engine tune up, but I owe so much of my weight loss to walking. I invested in a good quiet treadmill that is gym quality, and although outdated, it still works.

I won't stray too far off this topic, but if you are going to invest in anything, make sure you will love it, otherwise you won't use it. I got a cheap one for free and hated it. Test drive real ones if you can, and see if its too loud or the tread won't slip when you run on it.

I have been forced to do my walks outside now, (at least until I get my treadmill looked at) and I can't tell you how much I love it. Especially in Hawaii and this wannabe gardner gets super excited to see all my neighbors landscaping. I snap photos of ideas and have picked several little seeds from here and there of plants I might like.

I am hoping a kukui nut will sprout from my neighbors tree around the corner. As it is almost mango season, and I am walking past a good five to ten trees, I hope to be bringing mangos home from a morning walk soon.

Ok where was I going with this thread, fit and healthy, yes I am there! Here! Living happily fitter and healthier and feeling younger than my children. I can't force them to get their bodies in shape, but I can force them to go outside and play, and now they are having a hard time keeping up with me.

Next is getting all my loved ones fit and healthy because I want us to all be around for almost forever. Yes almost, I don't really want to live forever, but as long as I am alive, I will look and feel as young as possible! 21Forever ;) yep! I love getting carded. It still happens.

Ok funny story...you can stop reading...or read on if curious.

I was out shopping with my aunt, and I was all dressed up, hair, make up, looking pretty. We stopped into the store to buy midori for kamikaze shots, and I was standing next to these two teenage girls and I overheard one say, as she pointed at me, "She has someone buying her alcohol." Ha ha ha! I was so happy they thought I was barely legal to. Life is great!

Hugs, smiles, and lots of giggles for your day!

Aloha,
Maile


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Concerned parent!

I am continuously fighting germs it seems. First one child gets ill then the next. I honestly try to crank up their little immune systems with vitamin c and, as best I can, with healthy food.

The uphill battle I seem to face is a lack of hygiene when they are away from home and in the care of their schools.

I understand lack of funding and so many issues our public schools face, but seriously, simple hand soap?!?

My kids tell me there isn't any in the bathrooms. I said there must be hand cleaner somewhere? They say no.
I honestly don't understand when hand soap and hand sanitizer was on their school supply shopping list.

Assuming every student brought their school supplies, there should be more than enough hand soap for the entire school. So where did it go? And why is there no soap in the bathrooms?

Flu, colds, pink eye and I don't even want to consider the horrors of hepatitis! And worse, my son says some kids don't even wash their hands! Ewwwww!!! My inner girl is screaming germy coodies!

I have so much respect for our teachers and schools, we can't let our teachers get sick to.

Solutions?!? I have no idea where to even start, except to insist my kids keep hand sanitizer with them at all times.

I don't remember having these kinds of issues when I was a kid at school. Yes, broken bathrooms, which is still an issue. I won't even tell you how much my older son complains that bathrooms are often closed and there are no available facilities at all.

It's a basic need. We all need bathrooms, we all need clean water, and please can we have hand soap in the bathrooms. And for those kids that don't wash their hands, I hope they don't spread illness in their own families.

Wishing you and your family to be healthy always.

Love and Aloha,
Maile

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