THE SPIRIT OF VERONA
Author: E. Verna Turner
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Amazed of the nipa hut they built made from the materials from bamboo, sturdy wood from oak, narra, mahogany, and coconut tree ...the children appreciate what their elders did within a given time. It was really nice. "I don't mind being stranded here for years and years," Mila said laughing. "We can all live here just like Johnny Weismuller in his movie "Tarzan." Loren added. The temporary house for them is surely built like work of arts. Although it is far cry from what they have in Sardinia. What they have is a mansion made of bricks and stone. Roof made from tiza. They have a big fireplace and flooring made from the finest marble and living room and kitchen filled with antique furniture. they have a beautiful garden like that of the hanging garden of babylon. They have acres and acres of vineyard filled with grapes. they have a winery. Good life is what they have in Sardinia. Anyway living in another unknown island with all what mother nature has to offer is just within a touch of their bare hands. They don't need to go to the market and buy food and purchase beautiful clothes. That's what it is there is no store for their clothing where they have get their new clothes, dress and pants, new linens, blanket and before they could say anything, Grandma Olivia told them to read their books before bedtime so that they can increase their knowledge.
But before that they hoisted their stuff, pots and pans, ward robe, trunks, and almost their entire belongings from the boat filled their house up on the trees. They built tall ladders so that it's easier for them to climb up and down the trees and the long rope hanging from the middle of the bridge and two ropes hanging on each side of the tall douglas fir trees.
For their food they gathered seafood from the ocean and gathered fresh fern and mushrooms from the forest. There are vegetation that are so foreign to them such as sweet potatoe leaves and cassava leaves which according to the book they are edible. They wandered and wondered through the forest one more time and found so many edible fruits such as: papaya, banana, macopa, catmon, guyabano, caimito or star apple. There are lychee nuts and sago from a different variety of palm. It's a huge tree similar to coconut but this kind of tree is taller and weird. They run around one of the biggest tree. The roots are bigger and the trunk is so bizarre that they can lay hidden from it and they did play hide and seek underneath the thick wide roots. It was a pili nut tree. It's nuts inside an oval shaped- shell that is very tough they need a hammer or rock to break the shell. Mila, Lorne, Joselito, Joseph, Tamara and Cadee gathered all what they can carry and brought them all to their elders.
Grandma Olivia was so pleased of their find. "My God you kids are very resourceful!" I am really fortunate to have you all as my grandchildren." Grandma saying it all with much enthusiasm and delightfully cut the papaya in half, tried a piece of the papaya and uttered, " this is a sweet fruit." "Sappy and rich fruit." We can have this for breakfast everyday.
"If we'll have this everyday, Grandma?!" We'll have diarrhea," Tamara said and looked her in the eye and laughed like a naughty juvenile. Everyone laughed at what Tamara said.
"Don't worry Tamara we have coconut juice and that will cure the diarrhea," Cadee added to the prolong dialogue. The problem is who will climb up everyday to pick up the coconut? "Hmmmm...?!"
"You are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the whole clan blurted out loudly.
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