It's Been Quite a While

Wauchula, FL - Events of Thursday, September 5 to Monday, December 9, 2019

A recent email from a blog reader asking us if we were okay made us realize it's been quite a while since our last blog post. Our last two posts were over three months ago in early September right before and right after Hurricane Dorian threatened our area.

Except for both of us being under the weather with bronchitis for all of October, we have been doing fine. The activities we have been involved in since out last post have been rather mundane, so there hasn't been much to report. Going out to eat was restricted during our illness, and all the restaurants we have gone to recently were ones we have already written about. Therefore, there hasn't been anything new to report in the subject of food either.

Even though Margery wasn't feeling very well in October, she still got an early start on the layout of the November issue of the Co-op newsletter knowing there would be a lot of new information coming in at the last minute as members started arriving for the season. Margery got the newsletter out November 1 right on schedule.

The layout of the December issue of the newsletter went without a hitch; but when she was ready to start printing the newsletter, the Co-op's old color laser printer started to malfunction. The part required to fix the old printer, if it was even available anymore, would have cost almost as much as a new printer, so Margery also spent time researching and purchasing a new color laser printer for the Co-op. The new printer does a fantastic job.

Every fall, a group of volunteers goes around the Co-op and trims the palm trees to cut off all the dead palm fronds and seed pods to give the trees a neat appearance. It's a big job because the Co-op has about 170 palms along the streets and on public areas that we are directly responsible for, and an additional 50 to 60 trees that are located on members' lots that we also trim for a nominal fee.

The man who used head up the pruning and do all the cutting could no longer do the job because of arthritis. As chairman of the Landscape Committee, Paul took over organizing the work.

Doing the actual cutting is the hard part, so rather than have only one person up in the bucket of the cherry picker manning the saw, Paul and several other guys take turns doing the cutting. That results in a lot less stress on arms and shoulders than if one person has to do all the work.

Paul up in the cherry picker pruning trees

While one person is up in the tree doing the pruning, others on the ground gather up the cuttings and haul them off to our burn pile.

Workers gathering cuttings

So, in addition to our bronchitis and attending a few meetings after we started feeling better, those are the kinds of things that we have been doing since our last post. Now that we have stopped traveling, we don't have much to blog about anymore. We've been in the park model for going on two years, so we don't even have many park model projects to write about either. For those reasons our blog posts will continue to be infrequent, and at some point in the future, they may stop altogether. But for now, we feel we do have a few more posts in us, so stay tuned.

Comments

[Janice Evans]

awww. . .it has been quite a while since we have all heard from you you, in fact, was thinking that very thing a couple of days ago.

Think I'll add a reminder on my calendar to check in with folks every few weeks or so.

Feel your pain with the bronchitis/allergy yuck. Been battling here since the week before Thanksgiving. Finally, after a round of steroids, beginning to feel back to normal.

Glad you are keeping busy.