This old dog is performing new tricks now

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 About ten days ago I posted about old dogs and new tricks, concerning my foreman showing me how to sprout and grow coconut palm trees from scratch.  I explained that you take ripe coconuts that have fallen from the tree and place them in water or just on very wet, muddy ground.   And after a while it will sprout and bust through the hard shell.  Well?  Today this is what we have from the first batch of 100 coconuts I put out.   More will be like this tomorrow and Salvador said that by Sunday they will all be open and 30 cm or more high.   I was so excited to see this I about Pee'd in my pants.  In fact, I gave him the money to buy 200 more coconuts and we're going to sprout them, and then 700 more.  A total of 1,000 baby palm trees that in 2 years will yield a nut or two.  But in 5 years will be yielding a dozen a piece and should be 3 meters or more tall.  In 5 years, I will have about 20 pesos invested in each one, plus some watering, but I can carry them to Merida and sell for 500 pesos each.  Yes, you are remembering well from earlier posts.  I am 72 and in 5 more years I would be 77.  One of my friends reminded me of this when I said I was making financial plans 5 years out and pointed out that I would be 77.   I just asked the friend, "how old will I be in 5 years if I don't do this?"  Why not dream a little.  I've always respected a man who was willing to plant a tree, he may never sit under the shade of.



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