Things Change

Our kindly neighbor has been supplying us with cucumbers and tomatoes since we got down here. They are delicious and we are happy to take whatever he is willing to give away. It seems he has a bumper crop this year. It must be all the rain and sun. Even baby enjoys eating a pealed raw cuke. She likes chopped up tomatoes as well.

Our neighbor is an older gentleman, who is happy to chat over the fence with me. I enjoy it too. He is 75 years old, born in '34. He grew up about 20 miles out of Nashville, on a farm. Back then, he says, the whole area was covered with woods. Growing up, he and his friends would take their guns to school so that they could hunt on the way home. That was pretty much all the meat they had back then. He says their farm house was electrified in 1953, when he was 19!

This got me thinking about how much has changed in his life, and how much has changed during mine. Somehow, I think that when I am his current age it won't seem like things have changed as much since I was born. To be born two decades before you had electrical power in your home and then to be using email and surfing the net in your later years is quite remarkable.

I'm still hoping though! Who knows what new technology may be around the corner.