This Week on the Island 12/22/2019

‘This Week on the Island’ is written by Doug Bennett and is an update to friends about happenings in Key West last week. Everything is true except for those parts that are lies.

The Weather:  It started as another beautiful week, but a cold front came thru on Tuesday. The temperature dropped into the low 60’s. Back to the high 70’s by the weekend.

Started a new book this week.

Conch Scooter had a nice blog about our graveyard. https://conchscooter.blogspot.com/

We had lots of ships in this week. This pic shows three in a line. One at the outer mole, one at pier B. and one at Mallory Square.

There are little flowers growing in the grass at the Truman Waterfront.

Teeki enjoying the outdoors.

Coconuts in the trees.

Then the cold front came thru and Schooner had to lower their canvas walls.

Front Street with Duval in the background. The building that looks like it is in the middle of the street is currently the train station for the Conch Train on the corner of Front and Duval. This all burned to the ground in the great fire of April 1886.

And last but not least, our house decorated for Christmas.

Key West,

Close to Perfect, Far from Normal’

GDougBennett@att.net