Monday Mornings

Monday Mornings was Originally Posted on September 1, 2008 by lavarock

Each Monday I will set the alarm for 5:30am, take the dog for a run, then grind some coffee.

I have to be at work at 8am to start setting up for an island orientation. We will have perhaps 17 people show up at 9am and we will feed them muffins, bagels and cream cheese, sweet rolls, fruit cups (with and without whipped cream). The cups will have watermelon, papaya, star fruit and so on.

For drinks we serve a passion fruit/orange drink and I brew up my Pele’s Passion 100% Kona coffee. The neat thing is that for many of these guests, this may be their first taste of real Kona!

While we tell the guests about our island, we touch on the difference between blends and 100%. Then we tell them what Madam Pele is doing with the volcano and where the lava is flowing above ground.

Then it is inside to help people decide what they want to see and do during their week in Hawaii.

By then it is lunch time and perhaps I will have some fried rice or a “plate lunch”. I will work on some paperwork, help some guests and soon it is 5:30 and time to go home.

Koa (my chocolate lab) will greet me like I’ve been away a month and it is off to exercise him, have some dinner, watch some TV and off to bed.

On my days off from my part-time job, I try to get my farm into full production. It is slow going. We spend more time killing weeds than we do fertilizing. Such is life in Paradise!

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I just got back from work; they let me leave a bit early because it was a very slow day. Our orientation started at 9am and instead of a normal 17 people, we had 2… just 2. By 9:15 a few more people showed up, still we never exceeded 7 people. Many of our guests have been here before, thus they may not need to learn about the island and available activities.

Tuesday night there is a KonaWeb picnic, but I’m not sure I can make it. I have a guy coming by to mow the farm to eliminate acres of weeds.

My Lessor is scheduling an inspection this month. Hopefully they are happy with what I have done to the place since I got it. Many of the delays were outside my control and I having some isues getting some other things done quickly as I juggle finances. As you may remember, I had $35,000 outstanding while I waited to get money back on my contract.

Aloha until next time.