It happened in the 11th hour. It was a spur of the moment thing, but it turned out wonderfully.

It's nice to get the kids involved. They can come out and get dirty and it's OK.

It's come as you are. It's a lot of fun. You get out in the air. It grows on you. You get to talk with people who think food comes from a grocery store.

There are other John Deere clubs. But they didn't want other colors. So we started something everyone can join.

Poisonous frogs feast on insects that don't even have names. Tropical lizards disappear into the cracks of trees whose branches spread out as wide as their trunks climb high. This is the real Florida, as it was before people, and probably will be after us, too.

Being a writer - even a best-selling one - is usually not anywhere near as public as being a movie star, at least not when I'm out in 'real life' like this. Not that I don't use what fame I have, every chance I get, to help sell more books.