Fri, Dec 25, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Pretty quiet the last few days. On Wednesday I went over and practiced with “the band”. After the alcohol break things went downhill. Actually, I think we started sounding better. Thursday we talked about going to Key West to see a movie, but we thought better of it since it’s Christmas Eve. Walked around the lake and ran into Craig, our former neighbor. He wants to play spades after the Christmas dinner today. Sounds good to us. We’re going down at 1:00 to help with the set-up. Then I have to come back and put together my corn casserole to take. Cocktails at 3:00 and dinner at 4:00. They’re cooking up 3 hams. Should be fun. Weather is iffy so far. Really windy AGAIN. Hopefully it’ll be better by dinner time. Merry Christmas!

Ho Ho Ho and a bottle of wine.

Tue, Dec 22, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Our usual Tuesday. Laundry, grocery shopping, and lunch at the Stoned Crab. Really warm and humid. After coming back and putting everything away, we sat outside reading for a while. Watered our new flowers. Haven’t killed them yet.  83 today.

Key West all decorated up for the holidays.

Mon, Dec 21, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Still really windy today. Chuck came over and planted all the plants in our planter boxes. Looks really good. Chuck is an agronomist, so he knows his stuff. After he finished we headed to Big Pine and I stopped and had Chuck’s friend, Douglas, cut my hair. He did a superb job. Chuck and Doug invited us over for New Year’s Eve before we all head to the KOA and the band, Haywire. Off to the KOA for happy hour tonight. Then to Bistro 31 for dinner. There will be 8 of us. Should be fun. Upper 70s today and W I N D Y.

Desert Rose and some kind of succulent ground cover.

He put in a lot of succulents. 

Sun, Dec 20, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Yesterday, Chuck dropped off a bunch of plants for our planter. He was supposed to plant them today, but he didn’t show up. A windy, nasty day, so maybe he decided to do it tomorrow. Didn’t do much today. Robin stopped over with Mutley and we gave him his treats and talked with her for a while. Watched some episodes of “House of Cards” on Netflix. Great series. Mike grilled up some chicken yesterday. So, we’ll have left-over chicken for dinner tonight. Upper 70s today and really windy and cloudy.

Chickens of Key West.

Sitting under a huge fig tree at Two Cents restaurant.
Key West

Two Cents Restaurant--Key West.

Fri, Dec 18, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Warm, humid, and not a breath of air this morning. Early afternoon we headed to Key West. Had lunch at Two Cents and then went to see the movie, “Trumbo”. An excellent movie about the blacklist of several screen writers and others because of the taint of Communism. Not a great period in our history. Came back and sat outside for a while enjoying the balmy breezes. We put our awnings in because it was getting a little blustery. Mid-80s today. Nice.

A couple of big cruise ships in. Lots of people on the streets.

Strolling around Key West.

Outside our restaurant we saw this egret roaming around. I think he was lost.

Mike studying the menu. Love the little succulent plant at our table.

Wed, Dec 16, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Another exceptionally nice day today. Went to the Galley Grill on Summerland Key for breakfast this morning. I had eggs benedict and Mike had a full breakfast with bacon, eggs, and potatoes. Really good. On the way back we stopped at the hardware store to pick up a timer for the lights on our palm tree. Sat outside reading for a while, and at 1:00 I went over for Lazy Lakes Trailer Trash band practice. That’s always fun. I think we’d sound better with a couple of drinks beforehand. Mid-80s today.

Mike's daughter, Laura, sent me this cute wine cozy for Christmas. I will be the hit of the Christmas party! Thanks, Laura!

Tue, Dec 15, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Another beautiful, warm and sultry day. Got the laundry and grocery shopping out of the way and stopped at the Stoned Crab for lunch. Mike got a shrimp wrap and I ordered this salad with shrimp and a crab claw. They served our food and my salad had four shrimp on top—complete with their heads, little antenna, and their little legs. Oh man, I said. I can’t eat that with their heads on. Oh, she said, they leave their heads on because there is an oil sack in its head that makes them more flavorful. OMG, I said. That’s even worse. So, they took them back and lopped their heads, legs, and antenna off and brought it back. Kind of ruined my appetite. Won’t be ordering that again. We stopped on the way home at a landscape store to check out some plants. We have a rather large planter in our site. It runs the whole length of our site and we want to plant something in there. I want something that is maintenance-free. They recommended a grass that have these little red flowers. I think it’s called fire cracker or something. Anyway, there’s a guy here who will plant them for us. 85 today and beautiful.

Stoned Crab restaurant.