Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Felt pretty warm when I got up this morning.  Put on shorts and a tee shirt.  Charlie stopped by briefly.  After he left I changed into sweats and later added a sweatshirt.  Got progressively cooler and windier.  Watched our Netflix movie, “John Rabe”, about a German businessman whose actions saved about 200,000 Chinese after the brutal Japanese occupation of Nanking. True story.  There’s a big concert on the Truman waterfront which started at noon.  Howard Livingston, Three Dog Night, CW Colt, and others will be performing.  It’s a shame the weather has to be so nasty.  I think it’s 69 out there with around 20 mph winds.  Our office shut down today late morning because a lot of the people here in the park are working the event as volunteers.  Mike was up there when two girls from California came in who said they had a reservation and didn’t know what to do since the office was closed.  He helped them into an available site and told them to check with the office in the morning.

Doors of Key West

Pretty flowers in the rain.

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  A rainy day today.  So we headed to Key West and saw “Django Unchained” at the Tropic Cinema.  I had no idea that this movie was a comedy—well, a dark comedy.  A long movie—2 hrs, 45 mins.—but very good.  Walked to and from the Tropic dodging rain drops.  About 75 today I guess.

Pictures from our Valentine's dinner with Esther and Gerald

Gerald & me

Esther and Gerald in silhouette at our table.

Awwww...

Enjoying the last rays of the sun.  

Pretty decent sunset.  The front is lurking out there somewhere.  On our way back to Sugarloaf Key it poured down rain and the temps dropped about 10 degrees.  The weather was perfect during our dinner though.

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Warm and humid again today.  Just hung out reading my new book, washed out a few things and hung out.  Going to dinner tonight at Lazy Days in Marathon on the Atlantic.  Watching the coverage about the cruise ship that’s trying to make its way to Mobile, AL.  What a disaster!  Doesn’t make you want to book a cruise anytime soon.  Mid-80s again today.

Iguana in the tree outside our window.

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Hot and hazy today.  We decided to go to Ft. Zach beach.  Loaded some drinks in the cooler, packed my beach bag, grabbed our books and headed out.  Love coming here—listening to the waves washing up on the beach, the palms swaying in the breeze, the combined smells of the sea and suntan lotions and the screeching of the gulls.  Set up our beach chairs and enjoyed the sun and gentle breezes. On the way back we stopped at Geiger Key for some dinner and then home.  Pooped.  85 today!  Yes!

One of the schooners sailing by in the haze.

A lot of seaweed on the beach this year--not sure why.

Mike asleep in his beach chair.

Beautiful Ft. Zach beach.

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  As we were coming back from our laundry and grocery shopping chores, it was 83 degrees.  Blue skies, turquoise waters, and gentle breezes.  Another perfect day.  After putting everything away, I sat outside and finished my latest book, “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”.  This book made me so angry and ashamed of the arrogance and greed of Americans who unabashedly brought our indigenous peoples to near extinction.  Unlike the way Indians are depicted in the old westerns, they were for the most part gentle and peaceful people who just wanted to be left alone to live their lives as they always had. But the Americans wanted their land.  When they couldn’t swindle them out of it or force them off it, they found a reason to slaughter them with alacrity—men, women and children.  And they would take their beautiful Indian ponies and slaughter them too.  How pathetic. 

Pictures from our party on Sunday night.  There sure are a bunch of talented musicians/singers in this park.

Beautiful day at Lazy Lakes

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Our usual Monday.  Mike went over for donuts in the morning and shoes in the afternoon.  I got the cleaning done and then just relaxed the rest of the day.  Another gorgeous one.  We’ve had such a great winter down here this year. Over to the KOA for happy hour tonight.  

Doors of Key West

Doors of Key West

Lazy Lakes RV Park, Sugarloaf Key, FL:  Up pretty early again (for us) and headed to the Galley Grill for breakfast.  I had bacon, eggs, and ciabata French toast (yum!).  Mike had steak and eggs.  Our hunger sated, we continued on to the flea market in Big Pine and I stocked up on spices.  And we bought a few books, which we shouldn’t have done since we have a lot of books with us.  Oh well.  Later on we walked over to drop off some things I printed for Gerald and stopped by Charlie and Johanne’s.  Blabbed with them for a while and then Esther and Gerald showed up.  We’re going over to the clubhouse tonight for the Sunday party.  The park is providing the food and beer.  Charlie, Gerald, Jerry et al will provide the entertainment.

Cute little cottage across from the cemetery.

Jewish section of the cemetery.

A little cottage on Olivia St. (I think).