Confessions of a Grandma

We had a closing on ten or so acres of land that we owned in the central part of the state.  It always feels good to be getting rid of stuff we don't use and this is a first step for our vacation home fund. We also feel very good about the purchaser of the land.  It will used as the extention of a spiritual center  and it will conserved for its natural beauty and its water source.  Check out the link; the pictures are lovely.

My little portable garden had to come inside Wednesday and Thursday nights.  After Mike talked to a friend who lives near Boston, we can only be thankful we are able to have a garden this time of year! We took a ride down to Naples on Wednesday and visited our land at the eastern edge of Golden Gate Estates.  It is still there--a massively overgrown patch in what is now a fairly well developed neighborhood with paved streets and electricity and everything.  When we bought the land years ago, there were only two or three houses there.  Even now, to go just a half mile further east is to be in acres and acres of orange groves and tomato farms.  Most of the houses are built within the last five years--although I'm pretty sure no new houses were put in in the last three years.  The house on property right next to ours, however, has been there for over twenty years.  The family that owns it built way, way out in the wilderness at the time.  Ther...