I am taking an Olympic break here. Usain Bolt has been called freak of nature, and I agree. How many people can run like that? I like Walter Dix too. Usain runs for Jamaica and Walter runs or US. Usain just broke the world record and ran the 19.30 seconds in the 200 meter run. Wow.
Usain Bolt wears gold running shoes. But He didn’t act like a show off in this race. He actually grit his teeth and ran the whole race. Good for him.
So, I like the Jamaican runners. I have two Jamaican friends, Pauline and Mazie. They come to Vermont in the fall and stay all winter. 
Pauline is still a newly wed, since she and her husband married a year ago, but she was here in Vermont for about 5 months, I think newly wed time should be extended to them. They run a small general store, but I can’t remember what the name for general store is there. But from her stories, it seems like a general store.
Pauline is afraid of dogs, but has gotten to be good friends with Jigger our lab. They have a good understanding with each other. Pauline loves pork. I made them some pulled pork right around Christmas this past year and it was so dry, I couldn’t choke it down. Pauline didn’t complain about it at all. She is a good sport.
Mazie cracks me up. She loves salt cod and hates pork. Mazie’s husband is a fisherman and she has a teenage daughter about the same age as one of my girls. I learned this year that Mazie doesn’t swim. Don’t know why I thought she would, given that she lives on a tropical island, and the water is bathwater warm.
They are a bit wonky like me, which is why I like my Jamaican friends. They come up here to the land of ice and snow, leaving their families for months. They generally work 2 jobs, the primary being housecleaning in the resort town Stowe, just south of where I live. Then, they pick up extra work either doing more house keeping. When I first met them, they lived in this grubby little hotel room that the employer had arranged for them. Luckily this last year they got a small Condo to live in. However, they still have to pay high rent prices.
Reguardless of the hardships and the time away from their home, they don’t complain and choose to look at the glass half full, rather then half empty.
So Go Jamaica Go. Go Usain Bolt. Pauline and Mazie, the weather is getting colder and I guess I will see you soon.
