Yes, Lucie, I think my griping about something is just my way of realizing quickly what I can work on changing and what I can't.

There is so much locally we are dealing with that isn't an issue anywhere else. I have never mentioned it here, I don't think, but 53 yrs ago Jim was one of a group of men that started up a co-op of sugar cane. Eventually they had planted 48,000 acres of cane and had a super modern grinding mill. 500 familes devoted generations of support and dedication . Cane requires 7 irrigations yearly plus rainfall. The irrigation water ran out a couple of yrs ago, Mex owes us so much water per treaty of yrs ago.They say now they will start the payment by Oct.

Needless to say, with no water, the cane cannot continue to grow and produce a yearly crop, so the acres were plowed up last yr, those families had no more work nor income. The mill factory is being sold in pieces all over the world. All the harvesting equiptment has been sold world wide also.

Jim put in 33 yrs of supervision and hard work, he has been retired 20 yrs. All of the above news has been so hard on him, the whole place had a reputation of low turn over thru the yrs, it was blessed with dedicated hard workers. We are thankful he had such a good work environment those yrs and we are happy when he sees ones of his former workers .