This Week on the Island 07/30/2023

‘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 is hot, but then it is hot most everywhere.

The book this week ‘Drunk on a Plane’ by Zane Mitchell. I seem to have gotten back into reading because of all the heat in the middle of the day.

We picked our pineapple from the front yard before some tourist stole it. I cut it into slices and then cut the slices in half and Jo and I both ate half a pineapple. Bolt found the rind and ate it. I have never known a husky to like citrus.

Our banana tree out the back door fell and I got the 15 bananas and hung them on the front porch to get ripe.

Walking the dogs at lunch and there was a waterspout forming out over the water. I could see it over the roof of Kermit’s Key Lime Pie Shop. Key West is the waterspout capital of the world.

This week was ‘Mini-lobster Days’. Two days for regular folks to gather lobster before the real Lobster Season starts. Our lobster do NOT have claws. We call them ‘bugs’.

There are rules and regulations. Like, you can only get 6 per day per person and they must be over a certain size.

But some people can’t follow the rules. This group were caught with over 102 lobster over their limit.

I just thought this was a good picture to end with.

We leave you with ‘Easy like Sunday morning’.  The Saraha dust from North Africa is still in the air making the sunsets red. 

Key West

Close to Perfect, Far from Normal’

GDougBennett@att.net