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8 KAUA‘I MIDWEEK SEPTEMBER 15, 2021
Being the good daughter I am (insert eye roll here), I drove to her house after work to get it done, thinking I could set this thing up no problem.
“Now we need to move it over there,” my mom said, indicating a spot 8 feet away near the side of the house.
The act of transporting the blocks and getting the tent into said blocks is a story for anoth- er column, but we got it done, thanks to my mom’s neighbor who came home just in time.
by Nicole Monton
Reducing The ‘Tent’-sion
blage, when my mom replied: “Where you going? We gotta clean up.”
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Sharon W. shared her own rhyme (also to the tune of Row, Row, Row Your Boat) for re- membering to chew her food after reading “A Rock-‘sal- ad’ Foundation In A Glass” in our Aug. 11 issue: “Chew, chew, chew your food; always through the meal. The more you chew the less you’ll eat; and the better you will feel.”
Earning your trust!
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part. Getting the legs in was slightly more difficult, since there were only two of us and the darn thing is heavy! The hard part was over, or so I thought.
are many, is her ability to solve problems and get things done. As I was stewing in frustration, I saw her looking back and forth from the tent to the side of the house. She locked eyes with me, held her arms out and did a slow little shimmy with her shoulders. I burst out laughing.
days later, the tent was where it needed to be. The hard part was over.
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“Now, we need to get it onto the cinder blocks,” my mom said. “They’re in my car.”
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We took a corner diagonal from one other and lifted. It didn’t budge. We then tried each grabbing a leg and pull- ing/dragging it across the concrete, but the legs began bending in weird ways. That method was out, too. Time to reassess.
“You can’t be serious,” I said between heaving breaths. “That’s going to take forever.”
OK, I thought, now it’s surely over. Relief rushed over me, as I grabbed my keys and phone, ready to head home after two hours of tent assem-
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Because I’ m guilty of not fully paying attention when she’s talking to me, I misun- derstood. I thought she was talking about those pop-up tents to sleep in. What she re- ally meant by “tent” was the 10-by-12-foot kind that cov- ers the campsite’s common area, kitchen space and food storage. Imagine my surprise when I opened the gate and saw long metal poles and cor- ner pieces strewn about. Not wanting to admit I misunder- stood, I jumped in and started assembling.
One of the things I respect about my mom, of which there
She was serious. We both took a front tent leg and moved it about an inch, then walked to the back legs to move them an inch — the entire time laugh- ing so hard that I had to step away a handful of times to catch my breath. What felt like
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