Speaking of Staying Young!

The amazing Uncle Nello is doing great and says he’s just a little sore where the incision is. He certainly doesn’t need us. So, much as we would love to spend more time with them, we drove this morning up to Plant City to visit Gene’s Aunt Mary. We had called to invite her out to lunch. You know us, everything is about food. Yes, she said, I’d love to see you. But of course when we got there, she had the table set for lunch! Well, she had had a little spare time yesterday, she said, so she decided to fix us lunch instead of bothering to go to a restaurant. And of course her famous jello salad.
Aunt Kay and Aunt Mary are both gorgeous women, still in their 80’s. Aunt Mary golfs, sings in the church choir and does a zillion things around her community to help some of the “older” people who live there. Her next door neighbor Lucille will turn 100 in October. I hear that her family is planning a huge birthday party for her and inviting the entire community, along with a lot of other friends. I wish I could be there for that. So maybe it’s not just Port Charlotte. Maybe it’s Florida. These women age well and slowly!