There is little to report. We have made a couple of runs to the Mayo Clinic, and the cataract from one eye has been successfully removed. Next week, the cataract from the other eye will be removed. Right now I am viewing the world through glasses with one lens removed, and reading by covering up one eye with the cardboard bookmark.
On the way back from Jacksonville to our campground we stopped at Marjorie Rawlings home. This is now a Florida State Park. Marjorie Rawlings wrote "The Yearling" and "Cross Creek". I must confess, I have not read either book, but I did see the movie, "Cross Creek".
Marjorie Rawlings moved to Cross Creek Florida, to a small citrus farm, in 1928. She and her husband (they later were divorced) hoped that the income from the farm, would provide financial support sufficient to support their writing careers. I have been told, that indeed, the citrus farm was successful.
The Marjorie Rawlings House sits in an orange grove, and is surrounded by numerous outbuildings, such as a barn, chicken house, tool shed, tenet house, and a large vegetable garden. Much of the original furniture is in the house, and it reminds me of the way our "cottage" on Sunset Lake was furnished. I begin to realize my age when I see these older homes furnished the way I remember homes furnished when I was about in the late 130's and early 1940's.
The house is a rambling house, described as a typical Florida Cracker House. We have had some discussion as to what that means, but I would describe it as a house, surrounded by porches, with lots of window for cross ventilation, an supported off the ground with some type of stone or cement piers. The walls of the house and the ceiling were of fairly narrow tongue and grove boards, whitewashed --- giving the house a fairly open and airy feel.
Madeline probably best described the home and the surrounding grounds as "Old Florida"' The farm was very pleasant, and it is easy to see that it would be a good place for a writer . The way the home is furnished, I felt as I someone was living there, and had just stepped out for an hour or so.
There is little more to report from here. Watching the financial markets crash has been unpleasant and worrisome.
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