One of the most ludicrous things I do is about this place in Hawaii.
We have a manager who is very good at keeping the place rented out. She has a fondness for it, and suggests it to people who call asking where they should stay. She has a popular website for Hawaii vacation rentals.
But when it comes to taking care of the small stuff, she has her own ways and cannot be shaken loose from them. For example, switches break on lamps. At rentals, people seem particularly harsh on switches. When the switch goes, she retires the lamp.
So horrors, the switch just went on the big signature lamp. If we leave tomorrow and the switch is out, we’ll find the lamp in the shed when we return, the silk shade all moldy & the base corroded. I was on the verge of switching our flight to Sunday, but my sweetie drove a half hour into Hilo to his favorite place the hardware store that stays open late, for a new switch assembly.
And I worked until it got dark planting orchids and ferns and bromeliads.
So here is the “stop holding onto…” part of this.
All the orchids I bought when I was here last and left in the house were dead when we got here. Their pots were shoved into corners of the lanai behind the large ti plant.
So this time, this afternoon, I planted all the new orchids outside in the hapu’u ferns. I am over my sadness that the guests won’t have blooming orchids inside the house, as the view into the garden is now full of orchids in the hapu’u. When you take a shower outside, there are not only anthurium and bromeliads in the giant ferns, but also fragrant orchids.
I have let go of the idea that my manager who keeps the house rented out so it pays for itself should also manage indoor plants. Let her keep her bouquets going, and thanks to my honey who was willing to drive an extra hour after we already spent several hours on the road today, the lovely lamp will still be working tomorrow.
