This Week on the Island

This Week on the Island 03/26/2023

‘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: Another beautiful Week.

If you have ever driven North Roosevelt in Key West, then you have probably seen Douglas. He is in the local hospital. Think good thoughts of him as he is missed by many of us.

Two Cubans made it to the Key West airport on this thing. I wish them the best.

We lost a family member last night, Saturday. This is Tortou on his 5^th birthday last October. He should have lived to 150 years old. We will miss him.

This is the house at 629 Caroline Street in the Spring of 2019.

This is what it looked like when they finished remodeling it in May 2022.

This is what it looked like this week. I can only assume it was sold and the people that purchased it are doing some more remodeling.

This is the house next to us in June 2021.

This is what it looks like now. The people that purchased it moved in and do not have a completion certificate. They set up their web site offering to rent for a minimum of 28 days at $1,000 a day. They have dropped the price a bit but still for 28 days.

We leave you with ‘Easy like Sunday morning’. Pic from Cindy Booker.

Key West

Close to Perfect, Far from Normal’

GDougBennett@att.net

This Week on the Island 03/19/2023

‘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: Another beautiful Week. We are in the dry season and rain would be nice. It just goes around the island. We are very dry. No rain.

Key West is 150 miles south of Miami. Our water, electricity and road must travel 150 miles to get to us. Somewhere along the way something is going to happen to one of these. This week it was the water. Boil water in effect for 3 days.

One of the Facebook groups I belong too is about Husky’s. They asked how did you decide on your husky’s name. Well, Teeki s named because of the Tiki bars here.

I can’t mention Teeki and show her picture without showing Bolts picture. He has a lighting bolt on his forehead.

About once a month I will look up and see a crescent moon next to a palm tree. Reminds me of the state of South Carolina.

Cindy and Mike dropped by to say hi. He took the pic.

We have baby pineapples.

Friday was St. Paddy’s Day.

The Sargassum is piling up on Smathers beach.

South Beach (Atlantic end of Duval).

Of course, 3.14 (March 14) was pie day so I made a Key Lime pie.

It has been 3 years since we got ‘last call’ at Schooner Wharf Bar because of the Covid-19 outbreak.

Some sad news. Michael McCloud is retiring to Arizona and leaving the island. His last day will be April 30^th.

We leave you with ‘Easy like Sunday morning’.

Key West

Close to Perfect, Far from Normal’

GDougBennett@att.net

This Week on the Island 03/12/2023

‘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: Another beautiful Week. We are in the 'Dry Season' and we were hoping for the rain, but it never came.

Spring forward.

Michael McCloud has put his house up for sale. He plans to move to Arizona after its sales. 508 Avenue E, Key West, FL 33040 | MLS #604390 | Zillow

We spent some time at Schooner Wharf Bar on Friday.

The Spring Break crowd are everywhere. I didn’t get any pictures, so I thought I would post this one. Looking out from Sunset Pier.

This one was posted by Cindy Brooker. I had to share.

We leave you with ‘Easy like Sunday morning’.

Key West

Close to Perfect, Far from Normal’

GDougBennett@att.net

This Week on the Island 03/05/2023

‘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: Another beautiful Week.

There was a fire this week on the 600 block of Duval.

It was actually around back.

The Iditarod was this week. (Not here in Key West)

Fort Jeff is the least visited National Park. It is about 70 miles west of Key West.

Fort Zack is here in Key West. This is a very old picture. The fort used to be surrounded by water. This picture shows that the back side of the fort is touched by land. Fort Zack is now completely surrounded by land from the ‘dredge and fill’ of the ships channel.

A replica of Magellan’s Nao Trindade (1519-1522) is in Key West.

New ship to be commissioned in Key West.

The old 7-mile bridge had a swing bridge to let ships pass the bridge.

Willie Nelson was in town.

Spring Break has started and the college kids are in town. Spring Break here in Key West starts about the beginning of March and last until Easter. Easter this year is April 9th, so we will have about 6 weeks of Spring Breakers.

Sunrise over the bight on one of our dog walks this week.

We leave you with ‘Easy like Sunday morning’. Pic from Bo Fodor.

Key West

Close to Perfect, Far from Normal’

GDougBennett@att.net

This Week on the Island 02.26.2023

‘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: Another beautiful Week.

Who was the first President of the United States of America?

I'm sure that George Washington was your best guess. After all, no one else comes to mind.

But think back to your history books - The United States Declared its independence in 1776, yet Washington did not take office until April 30, 1789. So, who was running the country during these initial years of this young country? It was the first eight U. S Presidents. Look it up. This is John Hanson.