Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Another warm and humid day.  Mike had a dentist appointment on Big Pine Key and I cranked up the AC and did the cleaning.  After lunch I sat outside reading but had a hard time staying awake.  Mike showed up shortly after 2:00.  We hung around for a while and then went over to the KOA for happy hour.  After happy hour we went over to Mangrove Mama’s with Charlie and Johanne for something to eat.  Fun time.  More and more of our friends are showing up. Almost everyone is here now.  Mid 80s today with high humidity.  

Mikey in the bougainvillea

Mes amis, Charlie & Johanne

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  A beautiful, warm, mostly sunny day today.  Walked around the lake after breakfast.  Stopped to see Johanne and Charlie—who were busy making stairs into their fifth wheel so Maple, their aging lab, could get up and down.  I continued on down Johnson Road.  Love walking here because of the wonderful smells emanating from the vegetation along this road.  Came back and needed another shower.  I was drenched.  Decided to go into Key West and see another movie—“Killing Them Softly” with Brad Pitt and Gandolfini among others.  Not very good though.  Watched three more episodes of “Boardwalk Empire” last night which was very good.  83 today with high humidity.  Loving it!

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  A rather rainy and dreary morning.  I got up early (before 7:00!!!), took some Excedrin for my sinus headache and then got on the computer.  Did a backup and some other maintenance stuff.  While waiting for Mikey to get up I set up a vegetable beef soup in the slow cooker.  That’s going to taste really good with the homemade bread my sister gave us. After Mike got up I took my shower and got dressed.  Mike trimmed the palm tree in our site.  Now we have to see if our lights are still working.  While we were sitting outside yesterday we heard a big bang and a bunch of feathers flew around.  Looked and couldn’t find an injured bird, but a little later Mike discovered a mourning dove “legs up” under our picnic table.  Don’t know what possessed him to fly into the side of our fifth wheel.  Mike gave him a burial in the dumpster.  It finally cleared sort of and turned into a pretty nice day.  Warm and sultry.

Truman Annex

Doors of Key West

Carnival Destiny

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Beautiful and sunny today!  Drove into Key West and had breakfast at Azur then walked around Key West for a while.  Only one cruise ship in today.  The other day when we drove in when two cruise ships were docked we were dodging people on bikes, scooters, skate boards, on foot, and even on horseback.  A Key West mounted policeman was training a couple of recruits.  Those horses must be well trained.  Today was pretty mild by comparison.  Back to our park and our Canadian friends  Charlie and Johanne had just pulled in.  Talked with them for a while and then left them alone so they could get set up.  Haven’t seen them in two years.  This year all four Canadians will be down here. Really humid today.  Had the AC on for a while.  Low 80s today but felt warmer. 

Breakfast at Azur

Walking around Key West

This guy had this basset hound on Duval Street all decked out in her Christmas outfit.   Poor thing sits there all day in the heat and humidity in this outfit--and she's pregnant!  He has a sign requesting $4 for a picture.  What?  Took one anyway.  Mike gave him $1.  I'd say that's taking advantage of this poor dog.  He says they do it all the time.  

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Another cloudy and misty day today.  Drove to Big Pine and took care of the laundry and grocery shopping we were supposed to do yesterday.  Had lunch at Pizza Works and drove back home.  Put everything away.  Ray and his dog Munch and then Richard stopped by.  The lake was like glass today.  No wind at all.  Of course the lack of wind brought out the no-seeums in force.  Tried to sit outside and read but they drove me back inside.  79 today.

Love the palm tree door knocker.

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Cloudy all day today.  Didn’t matter because we had planned to do the laundry and grocery shopping anyway.  However, that didn’t work out because the laundry is now closed on Wednesday.  So we said to hell with it and went back home.  We’ll now do it on Thursday.  The salon where I got my hair cut is now closed also.  I figured that would happen since they now live in Marathon.  Spitted a misty rain off and on.  We watched three episodes of “Boardwalk Empire”.  

Chickens of Key West

Doors of Key West

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Another beautiful, warm morning.  But clouds started rolling in and it would sprinkle off and on.  We decided to go into Key West since we had to pick up a couple of things.  Roosevelt Ave. is being widened, so it’s one way going in and you have to take Flagler out.  Inconvenient, but not too bad.  We got some of the stuff we needed and then decided to go see a movie at the Tropic.  Lots of people and traffic in town because there were two cruise ships in.  Saw “Seven Psychopaths” which is a dark comedy about some guys who kidnap rich people’s dogs, keep them a few days, then collect the reward when they return the dog, claiming to have found it.  Unfortunately they kidnap a dog that belongs to a mob boss and things get ugly.  Good concept, and there were a lot of good actors in it, but it was really bad.  Mike fell asleep and started snoring (sigh).  Back home and sat outside reading for a while.  

Truman Annex, Key West

Truman Annex, Key West