Northeast Gardening: Reviewing 2015 Projects and Plants, Challenges and Results, 1 by DonnaMack

DonnaMack wrote:
I went to Pensacola a few years back at this time of year. It was really wonderful - I had friends from my old community who sold their house and were moving back. They had an amazing condo. A military couple. He had been with the Air Force, and at the time had gotten a lovely gig with a major airline. She was on her last tour - domestically, thank goodness. A chink in the armor was that they had overpaid for their house in my community and sold it at a loss, so the wife was going to have to work five more years than she had wanted to. But they were lovely people, and we (OK I) befriended them when many of our silly neighbors didn\'t. For whatever reason there was snob thing that you were a second class citizen if you didn\'t build your house - even if you paid much more than the original builders like that did.

I met them because their lovely young son (was he 8?) called out a hello to me when I was running. I stopped in my tracks, because children up here are taught that strangers will eat them alive. I said hello, and his father came out and introduced himself. It turned out that he too was a runner and convinced his son to be very impressed with the crazy woman who actually ran in the winter.

After they went back to Pensacola they invited us down. Here is a taste of Pensacola in mid-January!

I must go back!