Friends

I'm keeping my promise to myself not to come back to the park next year since I got pneumonia.  It's either the long drive down or the constant interaction with my friends here that seems to make me sick and it has to stop.  My old body can't handle it any more.

The pneumonia is gone but the after effects will be with me for a few months, I guess.  I have to rest more often but being a naturally lazy person makes that okay.  What I'll miss most of all are the fabulous people here in the park.  A few live close enough to me at home that I can still see them occasionally but there are a few I'll probably never see again and that's so sad.  They've been a huge part of my life for 20 years and given me much happiness to be around them.

Well, life does have it's peaks and valleys and the curves take us to new and hopefully happy places.  I'll still come down to Florida for a shorter time next winter if I can and stay with Shelley at her house or the beach house so I'm very lucky.  Life will change but it doesn't have to be a sad change, just a different direction.