Adventure in Osteen

I am enjoying my first cup of coffee with my new jar of Gall berry honey bought yesterday in the town of Osteen, Florida. The honey makes the coffee taste so good. The Gall berry honey is suppose to be good for allergies which I have quite often. I enjoyed mom's article about Bikes Inc. I found it to be very informative. She did an excellent job of gathering information from the bike group when they were outside the Osteen diner. She even told them I wanted to take their picture so they posed in a line. I thought the picture turned out real good. This picture was a bit less formal. I caught mom talking to one of the main people involved in the organized bike ride. He filled her in on all the details about the bike riding club and gave her the website which I checked out. It does look pretty formal. I liked lunch at the Osteen Diner which was fried chicken, french fries, apple sauce and bland green beans. They even tossed in some cold dinner rolls with a couple of pads of butter. Mom had an all vegetable plate with some spicy okra which she didn't like. She bought lunch and I bought the honey. I talked with the son of the lady who operated the honey place. His name was Jack. Mom had to search around the property for him. He was in the vegetable garden and he gave mom some sweet potatoes. He came back to drop off more jars of Gall berry honey. I bought three big jars and one small jar of Orange blossom to replace the honey I borrowed out of my sister's jar at home. I planned to give her Orange blossom honey because it is her favorite. Jack gave a little history which I will try to recall. It won't be as informative as the article mom wrote, but I will do what is possible. Jack said he was born in 1951 and the bee hive was started as a Future Farmers of America project in 1963 by his brother. When his brother left for the Air Force after High School the hives had multiplied many times over. The top count of hives they had was 4000. However, now it is like 300 with some located on the West Coast of Florida. When Jack's brother went to the Air Force the bee hive project was taken over by Jack's mom. She still is the main person, but Jack helps out where ever he can. He stated he was rebuilding the septic tank while we were there. Mom noticed he had a back brace and I noticed the big hole in the ground. He kidded about going to Deltona to shower up until this project got fixed to a former classmate who stopped by for some honey. Osteen seems like a small community where people look after each other. It is rare to see some new business pop up like the Dollar General which mom and I tried to see. The Dollar General was loaded with cars, but they weren't officially open yet. Mom saw a sign saying they wouldn't be open until Monday. She was looking for some spare cheap light bulbs which we usually keep on hand. I noticed the Dollar General had four fancy new air conditioning units outside the building. However, I was critical of the construction of the building. The building looked cheaply made to me. It had the siding and the aluminum roof which tornadoes love to destroy. Mom and I missed the Thanksgiving lunch group from her former office which met at the Holiday House in Orlando. However, I do think we had an enriching experience. We learned more about what makes a person's life full and complete. This is one lesson which doesn't get taught at a lunch in Orlando.