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It would be nice if we could say that our world last week had involved boating on the beautiful River or exploring some of Florida that we haven't seen yet — or even sitting on our deck looking at our canal. But they say that maturity means being able to defer pleasure and we are nothing if not mature. (Very very mature.)
So instead, our week mostly involved removing a large tree stump from our yard, pouring a new concrete slab between our house and our next-door neighbors, and repairing some of the patio on the dock-side of our house.
Or, to be more exact, supervising those jobs.
The tree stump was leftover from a carrot tree that used to grow here — that's an invasive species in Florida, so it is good that it is completely gone.
Also, because of the untypical cold winter (before we got here), all of the plantings around our little house were dead as could be when we finally got here last month.
That made us feel less guilty about doing something we'd planned to do anyway!
It doesn't take much to gather a crowd in a community like this. We had lots of neighbors to help us supervise.
We are so happy to have this job done. After ten years of living in an RV, we have no desire to pull weeds or plant flowers. We did a lot of yard work when we owned our two stick houses — and it was wonderful to have big yards when we were raising kids.
But I can't say that either of us was super-talented at gardening. It was an easy job to give up.
Now, we garden the RV way, which in our case means admiring other people's hard work. Next season maybe I'll buy a couple of hanging baskets — that will satisfy any latent green-thumb urgings.
Here's the Upriver Canal, which we'll now be able to enjoy from our newly-renovated deck. (Our cottage is down the canal at the far end.)
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