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Over the years I have offered training to a variety of groups including athletic teams, families, co-workers, and mom's night out. It is especially meaningful when these groups gather during the holiday season. Many holiday experiences tend to revolve around excess food and drinks. Gathering instead to move, breathe, stretch and strengthen is a wonderful alternative. Contact me to create your own festive gathering in which we celebrate the gift of good health, friendship, and movement.   This 1956 Ford tractor was one of many well-kept pieces of equipment that sold in our recent Braswell Farms auction. My brother did a great job loading it onto the trailer for two young men looking to restore the Ford to its original glory. A few memories from life on the avocado farm...  Dear Pilates Friends,
I’m excited to announce the final Pilates Mat Series of 2025! 6-Week Series Details:
Additional Offerings: Personal training sessions on the Pilates equipment also continue to be available by appointment. The Pilates equipment, including the reformer, tower, and chair, utilizes spring resistance to build strength plus support and stretch the body. Personal Training will be offered through mid-January. Spots for the mat series are limited—reserve yours soon! Venmo $75 @tiffany-larson-32 to reserve your space. Looking forward to seeing you on the mat, Tiffany Larson MS, OT, Power Pilates Instructor, RYT Home Training Facebook Home Training Instagram Home Training Website "Change happens through movement and movement heals." (Joseph Pilates) “The one who uses intelligence with respect to diet, sleeping habits, and proper exercise, is beyond any question of doubt taking the best preventative medicines provided so freely and abundantly by nature.” (Joseph Pilates, Return to Life through Contrology, 1945)  Dear Pilates Friends, The Autumn Session of Pilates begins next week:
As always, you are welcome to create your own mat class with friends at a time and date that fits your schedule. Personal training also continues by appointment on the supportive and challenging Pilates equipment. To confirm your mat class space, please Venmo @tiffany-larson-32. It’s been a busy few weeks assisting my dad with a major move in Florida (check out the new blog post) and visiting family in Texas for an engagement celebration. I’m ready to return to a consistent routine of practicing Pilates together. I hope to see you soon! Warmly, Tiffany Larson, Power Pilates Instructor, RYT, MS OTR   It's not unusual for adult children to assist parents in a move to a senior living environment. What is a bit of an anomaly is assisting a parent in the down-sizing of a 40 acre avocado grove, two tool sheds and a home of almost 60 years. This was our task over approximately the past 4 months but crunch time was the past 2 weeks. Credit to my sister and brother who made more frequent visits since February to hire a realtor; enlist an incredible estate sale planner; identify a family-friendly, personal moving company plus notify local non-profits who would benefit from the accumulation of farm and home items. And this process could only progress when my dad was willing and invested in making the move himself. He has a rich history from his roots in North Carolina, enlisting in the Navy in 1960 where he was trained to fly fighter jets, choosing to take his talents to Delta Airlines where he flew for 30 years in addition to buying property in 1967 which would grow to become Braswell Groves. This avocado grove was his retirement plan (more work than flying) and he farmed it successfully to the current day. It was finally time to write a new chapter and return to his roots in North Carolina. It's impossible to quantify this experience with a single post, but I wanted to share a few highlights as a record for myself (childhood memories are tough to recall) plus as a reminder to my own kids of our childhood history in South Florida. I made a few simple recordings on a whim of nostalgic urgency to preserve a bit of history. A few things I forgot to mention, red ants, wasps, and yellow jacket stings were common. Mosquitoes were often terrible. We found old containers of calamine lotion and campho phenique during our clean-out that, in addition to a meat-tenderizer paste, were the remedy to these bug bites. In addition, in the early days we were often fearful of my younger brother falling down a well-hole in the grove in the 1970's! Fortunately, we all survived! Pardon the video quality, I did the best I could in a rather stressful situation.  This chart shares the many varieties of avocados and the approximate date they are to be picked. The Florida growing season is typically between June and October although not unusual to have fruit hanging on the trees until December. Over the course of a growing season, you will pick the same tree at least 3 times as, like people, avocados mature at different rates. You can only pick the avocado when it is of a required size with its circumference measured by a circular paddle.  |
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