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.

Mon, Dec 14, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  A beautiful, warm, and sultry day today. After my smoothie I walked around the lake and Mike met me at the office. Picked up our mail and helped Jerry and Char with some huge packages they were picking up. After lunch we put some little white lights on the palm tree in our site. Now I’m all sweaty and need another shower. Put everything away, cleaned up the site and got ready for happy hour tonight at the KOA. Probably low to mid-80s today.

Private home in Key West.

Beautiful Royal Palms!

Sun, Dec 13, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  So much for our run of good weather. It rained off and on all day today. One time it really stormed with lots of wind. We put our awnings in and hunkered down inside. Pork chops for dinner tonight, along with mashed potatoes and a vegetable. Sounds pretty good. Mid-70s today.

This ivy type of plant is so pretty with its orchid-like flowers.

Sat, Dec 12, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Another beautiful day today. After lunch we drove to Big Pine and picked up our bikes. Since it was such a nice day, we biked down to the Blue Hole. Talked with some people there for .a while. They are from Key West—born and raised—and remember swimming there as kids. They remember gators in there, but the gators stayed on one side of the pond and the humanoids on the other. Interesting. Continued our bike ride. Mike saw a Key deer. I saw a Madagascar Day Gecko. These little guys are bright green with red spots and little suction cup feet. People probably kill them. Stupid people. Hated to end our bike ride, but my butt was getting sore. We’re planning on going to the Key West Lighted Boat Parade tonight. Haven’t been in about three years, so it’ll be fun.  82 today and windy.

Reflections at the Blue Hole.

Madagascar Day Gecko.

Fri, Dec 11, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  I had a hard time sleeping last night because of the events after the ballet. But I was glad in a way because there was a lot of lightning way off in the Atlantic somewhere and it was creating quite a light show. I hate electrical storms, but there was no thunder at all, and the lightning backlit the clouds and reflected off the lake in pretty shades of pink. Plus, there was a multitude of stars overhead. All in all a pretty spectacular show. Got up at 7:00 (early for me) because I wanted to get the insurance thing out of the way. A beautiful morning—sunny with a few clouds and a slight breeze. We are expecting a run of really nice weather—high 70s and low 80s with lots of sun. Took our bikes up to Big Pine to get them tuned up and I need a new bike seat—so we’ll be ready to do some biking. Mangrove Mama’s tonight for dinner and drinks—lots of drinks. Upper 70s today and SUNNY.

Love the exotic flora down here.

Another CF!

Thu, Dec 10, Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  This morning dawned cloudy, but warm with a slight breeze. Decided to go into Key West to see “Spectre” at the Tropic Cinema. While I was checking movie times, I noticed that they were showing a production of “The Nutcracker” ballet by the New York City Ballet, choreography by George Balanchine. It was only going to be shown this one night and I really wanted to go. So we did both. Saw “Spectre” at the Tropic, which wasn’t that great and way too long, then walked over to Charlie Mac’s and had some dinner. Drove to new town Key West and then saw the ballet. A beautiful production. It was after the ballet that things went to hell. Cars were parked all over the place in the lot adjacent to the theater and our truck is so big. Anyway, we came too close to a car behind us and in trying to maneuver the truck around we scraped the bumper of his car and did quite a bit of damage to our new truck. The passenger side rear quarter panel and the passenger side rear door took most of it. Their car didn’t have that much damage. But both were drivable. We had to wait an hour and a half for them to get out of their movie. Then we exchanged insurance data and we went our separate ways. Needless to say, Mike is not a happy camper.