Back To Normal

After a few days in the sun I feel so much better and the arthritis which plagues me during the wet and cold winters becomes a memory.Things get back to normal after trimming several barrels of frozen and brown foliage and trimming the damaged vegetables. Although the bananas were totally frozen they will in a matter of a few months be back ready to provide a new crop.

One of the happy surprises was our papaya tree which lost all its leaves or so I thought but in a matter of three days new, small healthy leaves appeared. It was almost like magic as the new leaves appeared and another row shows signs of being OK. Since most tropical plants grow from within the core, what appears to be a total loss often results in a comeback stage several days later or even longer.

With Xmas a memory I miss the visits from family and friends but we will be in the active stage for seniors from now on. Golf, dinner dances and numerous other social activities crop up daily and we shall be busy from now until we get back home in the spring. With spring training for the big leagues baseball teams only a short time away many folks from the north schedule their holidays around this activity. We have the Boston Red Sox and Minnesota Twins here in our community and we get a chance to see them up close and at a reasonable cost.

The area deems it important to have these teams stay in our community to the extent that a new facility for the Boston team is being built at a cost of nearly $100,000,000 to exactly replicate the Boston facility back home.It seems there is little money for hospitals, schools and housing for the poor but when it comes to sports the sky is the limit.

Back at the Saturday Market there were huge crowds buying their produce for the week and with forecasts for large increases in prices due to the frost baskets were filled and every table had a smiling face behind it as the farmers counted their money. It is good to deal directly with the producers of your food and to talk with their helpers every week. You sort of get a little bonding with this very important segment of our population

It feels good to be back to normal again and thankful for the life we have here during the winter.