A Christmas Story

Good tidings and a Happy New Year to all of you. At present most indicators are that this year of 2012 will be a very good year.

I have not written blogs for a while, but now I have written 3 recent ones before this. I will try to do better this new year.

Our Christmas amaryllis is in full bloom. It is beautiful but it missed Christmas by one week by one week. Now for my true story.

This occurred in the 1950's when we were in CFM, Christian Family Movement. Basically we were meeting in groups of 10 couples about every two weeks in our own homes, on a rotating basis. Naturally we would become very familiar with each other. We were very fortunate to have a swimming pool, so during the summer we would have an outing with all.

In our group we had an owner of a wholesale fruit and vegetable business. While we were serving watermelon, I mentioned that I really like watermelon, and that I even would like to have it in December at Christmas time. Now remember this was in the 50's when air travel was in its infancy, so my desire was only an exotic dream.

However at Christmas that year, he shocked me when he handed me a watermelon.

That was the time that Tom Brokow called us, " The World's Greatest Generation "