About Waipahu's Waipio Gentry

I’m one of those people that gets a little…just a little… attached to most living things. It may sound silly although when I put my heart and soul into nurturing a living thing it becomes a part of me. It’s who I am and definitely stands for the kind of person I am.

I nurture all my plants in my little fenced yard. About 3 years ago I nurtured a palm and then donated it to our community to take the place of a diseased tree they had to get rid of. They exchanged the bare spot with my palm and it has flourished and grown to almost 20 feet! It shades my bedroom window and it not only benefit our community ….but our shading comfort.

Well, I nurtured a fig tree for the past four years and it grew in a very big pot to 7 feet. One day I noticed that it was unusually flourishing, very very green and getting very very TALL. I tried to turn the pot around so it got sun on the other side and …it wouldn’t move. Apparently, the roots cracked the bottom and my fig tree really took off into the ground. Just a very happy camper indeed!

Well, it’s too big for our little fenced yard and we definitely cannot plant into the ground in our little yard (against association rules) so my husband cut the roots and I put an ad in Craigslist the night before last to give my tree to a loving home. YES. FREE TO A GOOD HOME.

It wasn’t but a half hour later and I received a call. I “interviewed” the caller and asked what he planned to do with the tree. After feeling comfortable that my tree would be going to a good home we made arrangement for him to pick it up the next evening.

“Byron” was a good man and he planned to plant it in his HUGE yard with the hopes it would be a nice shade tree for the kids and his doggies. He whipped out a wad of bills and wanted to give me money and I refused and I told him I just wanted my tree to go to a good home. I handed him my card and his eyes lit up. He knew a lot of people and surely he would be able to refer someone to me.

Although a little sad for having to give it up....

I’m just happy my fig tree went to a good home.

Gardeners are good at nurturing....

Just think what we do in business!

Waipio Gentry is minutes from Schofield Barracks, Wheeler Army Air Field and centrally located on Oahu to Hickam AFB, Pearl Harbor Naval Base. Waipio Gentry is a small residential area and a bit of industrial area as well. With an Autoplex, Costco, a couple of strip malls and many small businesses it is a self sustaining community with a close knit residential community.

The Royal Palm @ Waipio is a townhouse complex in Waipio Gentry. There are studios, one and two bedrooms. Maintenance fees for the Royal Palm @ Waipio have not gone up for 2011 and currently the studios have monthly fees about $221 per mo., one bedrooms about $258 and two bedrooms are about $385.

Current Market Statistics for Royal Palm @ Waipio Gentry for the last six months:

*DOM (Days on Market)

Most of the roofs have been replaced and the carport roofs will are being replaced as we speak. The nice roofs, landscaped grounds, paved roads, walking/jogging paths, pool and recreation area and wonderfully up kept units surely make for great community living.

Royal Palm at Waipio Gentry.

Townhouse living at it's finest!

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The brush fire from last week reignited today...closing down the H-2 early afternoon. By evening the helicopters were using the park (again) behind our house to fill their giant buckets of water. Many local Fire Departments came to assist.

In the midst of the stubborn fire a fiery colored rainbow was struggling to show it's colors.

By evening they were still working......

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Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman is a Realtor-Associate with Century 21 Liberty Homes in Mililani, Hawaii. With a sharp understanding that a listening ear is the key to a client's needs, she serves the island of Oahu (Honolulu County) and all Hawaii Military Relocating to Hawaii, Hawaii Retirees, Hawaii Job Transfers and Hawaii Residents. Website: www.hawaiihomesmarket.com

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I see you peeking at me!

Don't be talking back to me!

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Celeste "Sally" Cheeseman is a Realtor-Associate with Century 21 Liberty Homes in Mililani, Hawaii. With a sharp understanding that a listening ear is the key to a client's needs she serves the island of Oahu (Honolulu County) and all Hawaii Military Relocating to Hawaii, Hawaii Retirees, Hawaii Job Transfers and Hawaii Residents. Website: www.hawaiihomesmarket.com

Yesterday, I went outside in my little fenced in courtyard to water my plants and tend to my little garden. LO AND BEHOLD! One of my orchids bloomed and had been obscure from sight...hiding behind another for who knows...possibly a day or two? I immediately scooped it up and rushed it inside the house to show Gary...and Shadow (lol...she really is interested in all we do) and snap the shot of a once a year bloom.

With soft form and shape

Bloom colors spoke in volumes

A whisper ... lest be late

The wonder of floral hue

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Have a wonderful Sunday....and an even better week!

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EDIT: After a question in a comment about what did Shadow think I thought to share with you all the wonder of the fauna with flora :) :) When I caught this shot I also noticed that maybe there was some smell. I took a deep whiff and lo and behold my sensors were working! I have no idea what happened when I sniffed yesterday.

Moral: If you stop to smell the flowers and there is no smell....try try again ....lol!