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08-12-05
Have I a side splitter to share with you. The laugh is on me.
I live in a community that is sort
of open gated in north east Fort Lauderdale. Here everyone has a
swimming pool but 40 years ago when this community of Imperial Point
was first developed this was not the norm. I have opted to not have a
pool. In its place I grow mangoes, papaya, bananas, coconuts,
avocadoes, limes, oranges and grapefruit... I have palms and assorted
other tropical flowers and plants. A little tropical jungle in the
midst of baron development.
Now in every neighborhood you have
the proverbial litterbugs that feel that what is out of sight is okay
and I happen to have just such a neighbor along side of me. I am
always finding that this neighbor finds it so much easier to toss
unwanted junk, like cigarette butts and so forth, over the tall wooden
fence between out properties. These I pick up along with candy rappers
and so forth. You get the picture.
Last week I wrote you about the red
mushroom that I suddenly found in my yard after we had been dumped on
for a couple of days by rain. I thought this came from the soupy
weather we had been having. Well, yesterday I took another look over
in the corner at it. I could see from the distance that it was looking
rather brown spotted and moldy. I hunkered down and duck walked under
the thorny branches of the key lime tree over to where it was. It
looked weird. Not like something animate but rather like something
disgustingly spongy. I touched it with the toe of my shoe and suddenly
realized that this d--- neighbor had tossed the slimy filter from his
swimming pool over the fence too. What a mess of emotions went through
me as I trod around the house to dump the offending object in the
garbage can along with the mango leaf that I used to pick the d---
thing up. I wouldn't touch that thing on a bet. I was laughing at
myself for thinking it was a mushroom and also incensed at the gall of
that neighbor. Oh well, live and let live.
Still hot and steamy here and will
be for another 3 months. We are almost half way through hurricane
season. Half way through the alphabet too.
Sitting like a duck in a shooting
gallery till November..
Love,
Donna
Please visit my site at:
Thank you,
Donna Schmidtke 2149 N.E.56th.Place Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33308-2504
954 772-6123
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