Givealittle asked me to update Hunters closed Education fundraiser but the link brought me here
24 March 2023
Posted by: Planet Replant
Tom’s Legacy
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https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/search?member_listing=920535&bof=GXCwMtUo
14 August 2022Posted by: Planet ReplantPlanet Replant will contribute funds toward this cause through listings on Trade Me.
Pic taken on Tommys birthday last year. Tommy's Nanna always took him to Pizza Hutt on his birthday. That's our Aunty in the pic with the boys, Tom's brother on the left and his nephew in the middle with Aunty.
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Pic of Tom and Hunter when H was about 3 yrs old
14 August 2022Posted by: Planet Replant -
Thank You
28 July 2022Sending our sincerest thank you to each and every one of you, for your generous donations and thoughtful words. If you’d like to help Sharon and Hunter further please consider sharing the link to the givealittle page on your social media accounts. Again thank you so much!!!
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Pic of Toms Car and a bit of a story
18 July 2022Posted by: Planet ReplantMy heart is broken. Your really have to wonder why life has to be so cruel. All around us, every day, loved and special people are taken from us through accidents that never needed to happen. Its not like we are bad people, we are good people, doing no harm to anyone, just loving and supporting each other and living with a purpose. Then smash. Everything changes.
I keep hoping this is just a bad dream and I'll wake up from it and everything will be beautiful like it was before.
I bought this house when Tom was 3 years old. He was number 4 of 5 great kids.
It was bare land with an old house plonked in the middle of it. Iv planted a food forest here, and this place feeds us well now through 3 seasons every year.
Tom got the place half painted last summer and we've been working on pruning the fruit trees and making firewood from the branches etc since before winter arrived and we couldn't paint more till summer.
We've been moving and taking down fences so we can relawn areas that have been orchard chook pens, and recently reshaped the driveway so you can drive in a full circle from the gate to the house and back to the gate.
For the past 18 months, Tom was my number 1 helper. Iv got an almost 18 yr old Grandson and an old mate that come up and do working bees with me maybe twice a year but Tom and I were methodically working our way around the whole place trying to get it to that point where it would only need mowing and edge trimming to keep it tidy, then aimed to put it on the market and tryn sell it and move to Ohingaiti to the Home of Planet Replant and live and work from there.
We have improved this place, our home, over the years, New roof, Insulated in the ceiling, New and extra wiring and hot points, Gibbed all but one room (mine typically) New bathroom almost finished, added a huge veranda, put a wee porch on the shed flat that I wanted to turn into a Granny Flat for Great Nanna, ...the whole place is still a work in progress but I know I'm not going to be able to finish it or live here now.
I cry every time I have to drive back here from town. My son met me at the gate that night and 15 mins later he was gone. I cant keep driving home to that memory.
When the family arrived after they heard the bad news, I anguished about selling the house with them, like what if Toms spirit was still here and we leave and he's left here without us?
I woke the next day with this idea that maybe I should still put the place on the market, but sooner and- as is, and if it sells fast maybe Tom would have had a hand in that and if it doesn't sell fast maybe that would mean he wants us to stay here a while longer.
The phone rang about 10 mins later and it was the postie, she said she had a beautiful bunch of flowers for me and would be at the gate in 10 mins. One of the Grandies carried them in and put them on the chair beside me. Beautiful white flowers, Tom died on the road out from a tree of white flowers. I didn't look at who they were from for about 6 hours, then leaned over and plucked the tag off them and read the message. They were from a local Real Estate Agent. Our first bunch of flowers from the local Real Estate Agent. I had to take that as a sign. For starters, WHAT Real Estate Agent ever sends flowers the day after a freak accident? Im convinced that Tom had something to do with that happening. I choose not to believe that the REA was just a little trigger happy with his assumptions. We, as a family, shared a wee laugh about Tom having instigated that from the other side, and I have yet to ask the REA what he was thinking or how that came about. Im clutching for reasons and answers and nothings going to change what has happened but its definitely changed everything about our lives and somehow Iv got to carry on with the plans we had and continue to support and grow Hunter into a beautiful man like his Daddy was.
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Thank you so much to you lovely people for helping us
16 July 2022Posted by: Planet ReplantFrom our hearts we humbly appreciate your help with Toms Legacy and I so appreciate my niece for setting this page up. She has set it up linked to my Planet Replant Givealittle page and I like to think that Tom had some kind of divine role in it being here and not on the page I run for Hunters education.
Tom wanted to be a courier driver and wanted to courier the items we sell for the Planet Replant cause.
I am also contributing to the car payments myself with $2000 that a friend gave me for selling his property for him last year, and Toms kiwisaver that we found in the door pocket of his car has about $2,300 in it so that will go straight on the car payments as well and I'll also sell his old Mitsubishi Lancer Coupe thats been parked up rego on hold and put that toward the payments as well.
The Mazda owes over 12 and a half thou so what we can gather as a family will go a long way toward covering it.
If this fundraiser exceeds what we need, I know that Tom would love me to donate it to Trees that count on behalf of him and our Planet Replant cause. They are one of the groups we planned to support with money we raise through the Planet Replant fundraising shop (https://www.facebook.com/TreesThatCount) so know that every cent you donate for this cause will end up where its meant to be, or go on to a bigger cause that benefits all of us on the long term.
I used to sell trees and shrubs at markets around the Wanganui Manawatu at ridiculously cheap prices and I didnt take a wage from it as Im planet not profit orientated, but I had to give that up when I took on raising Hunter and he developed severe asthma as a baby.
We planned as a family, Tom, Hunter and I, that we are going to open the fundraiser shop again soon. Hunter and I will continue on with that plan but instead of selling trees and shrubs like I used to Im going to run it as a fundraising shop and donate the money to Trees that count and a couple of other projects Im passionate about. I'm getting too old to lift and carry trees now.
I started a fb page for Planet Replant. Plan a Tree Plant - Planetary Plant - we play with the wording at times and its amazing how it still means the same thing no matter how we word it.
Planet Replant - Where spending doesn't cost the earth.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/planetreplantnewzealand
The pic is the before photo of the old gas station I bought about 15 years ago.
We'll transform that as time goes by.
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Hunter Galaxys final farewell to his Daddy Tom
15 July 2022Posted by: Planet ReplantHunter lay his lullaby bubble music machine on Daddy and played him his favorite song.
We picked Toms ashes up yesterday, and have him home here with us again so a new chapter of our lives begins.
Hunter is much loved by all of us, as was Tom, and we are all going to miss Tommy so very much.
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