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2010
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March
31
Today is our last day in the keys for a
while. We had to head to Key West today to return our modem to comcast. After
we got back, we decided to take a walk around the lake. It would normally take
about ½ to do, but everyone knows were leaving and we have to say our “See you
laters”.
30
Today is domestic day. We are doing
laundry and some vacuuming. John is empting and cleaning the storage areas.
Tonight is our last Tuesday potluck of meatloaf then Texas Holdem. The meatloaf
dinner was really good. Walt and Fiona also made some Irish Coffee which was
great. The secret – brown sugar. A shot of Irish Whiskey, 1 ½ teaspoons of
brown sugar, fill the 8oz cup with coffee and add a little cool whip or half and
half. Very smooth.
After dinner we had Texas
Holdem. The first game we had 8 players – Karen, Ron, Sandy, Craig, George,
Gerald, John and Darlene. Gerald was 3rd with 10.00, John 2nd
with 30.00 and Darlene was the winner with 40.00. The second game we had seven
players – Gerald, Karen, Craig, Sandy, Darlene, George and John. Darlene was 3rd
with 10.00, George 2nd with 25.00 and John the winner was 35.00.
During the time we were playing
cards, we had an impromptu band playing. The Lazy Lakes Trailer Trash Band.
Carolyn on the washboard, Jerry on banjo, Fiona on guitar and vocals, Carlos on
flute and guitar plus we had a bunch singing. It was really fun. Like us, in
the next week or so there is a LOT of people heading out on the road. After
cards and the band, we had a couple cocktails and then headed back to the cow.
29
After a nice walk
around the lake and a stop at the clubhouse for coffee and doughnuts, a rain
storm blew in. The wind is blowing and it’s pouring. We are just relaxing and
enjoying the storm. The rain let up and we walked over to check out
horseshoes. We had 10 people which worked out fine. Dale and I were partners
and John and Carolyn were partners. Both teams lost 3 games and won 1. We had
a short rain delay but that was fine. John and I had 5 ringers each. Tonight
we are just hanging around the cow.
28
Another party day.
This morning is sunny and 74 already. We took a walk around the lake then did a
few projects. Today is our last Sunday party but it’s starting a little later
at 3pm until ??? Dave Aaron and the band are playing. It’s not just a party
but we are celebrating Joe’s retirement, Duane and Dave’s birthdays. We had a
great time like always.
27
Today should be
a nice relaxing day. We’ll we thought. They are auctioning off 13 lots here
today. So we went over to the pool to soak up some rays and check out how the
auction goes. We got over to the clubhouse and pool and not just an auction,
but another party. In addition to coffee and brownies, there was a keg of beer
and CW Colt was playing. OK. We’ll attend. They ended up auctioning off one
site for 95K. After that the bids were too low, so Joe said forget it and just
party.
We had a couple games of jokers and
then had to hurry up and change to head over to
Boondocks for Howard Livingston and Mile Marker 24 CD Release Party.
Carlos, Linda, John and I left at 5pm and the band wasn’t starting until 7pm.
When we got there all the tables were already gone, but we worked out chairs in
the front. Frisbee brought Joe over and Joe C and Dave came over. Joe C owns
Lazy Lakes. Once again we had a good group.
Howard always auctions off the first
margarita from his Johnson and the chance to make it. All the proceeds go to
Kids Camp. Tonight was a record.
Joe C
got it for $1,500.00. He did a great job making it as you can see from the
pics. We got back to Lazy Lakes around 1130pm.
26
This morning we
had to head to Big Pine for groceries. When we got back John did some reading
and I researched new cameras. Mine is on the last leg. After dinner we headed
over to the clubhouse. Tonight is movie night and the movie is ‘Blind side”.
There are a few sprinkles in the area so the movie is inside tonight. We only
had a single feature since it’s light later the movie starts later almost 8pm.
25
This morning we got up and took a nice walk over to the KOA. Last night the
button to take photos on my camera fell off. We were hoping to find it but no
luck. John was able to rig it up with a tac and some electrical tape, but I
don’t know how long this will last. Time to start checking out new ones. We
took it easy for a while. Tonight is another party time.
We headed down to Key West with
Debbie, George, Darlene and Frisbee. Craig met us down there. We headed to
Rick’s
to see “Yo Adrian”. We were there for his whole set 4 hours with no
breaks. We had a great time. It’s hard to explain his show. It is definitely
not for kids and a lot of adults would not like it either. All of us however,
loved it. It’s part music, comedy, clean and dirty and everything in between.
We found out he will be up in Maine this summer so we are going to try to make
it to another show. He really liked the fact we were married for 31 years and
that were gypsies.
After his show we headed across the
street to Sloppy Joes.
Pete and
Wayne were getting started. They also have a unique show that’s not for
everyone. We had a great time and then it was time to head back to the cow.
24 Another
beautiful, warm, sunny morning. I did some TCI stuff in the morning and then we
headed off to the pool in the afternoon. We walked over to
Mangrove
Mamas with Debbie and Mark for happy hour and Carlos met us over there.
Then we all headed to the
KOA to
see Dave Aaron and the band play tonight. We had a crowd. We did lots of
dancing and yes, even some drinking.
23
Today is bright and sunny and heading to 75 degrees. We have a few projects
this morning and then a pool afternoon. After soaking up some rays at the pool,
we had a cocktail in our yard and did some reading. We headed over to the
clubhouse around 545pm for the Tuesday potluck. Tonight’s theme is appetizer
and dessert potluck. We brought BBQ little smokie’s in the crockpot. I really
liked the theme. There were some great appetizers and lots of desserts
including birthday cake for Ester.
Then we played 2 games of
Texas Holdem. The first game we had 8 players – last to winner – Sandy, Dale,
John, Ron, Karen, Nate, Ron and George. George took home 40.00, Ron 30.00 and
Nate 10.00. The second game was 7 players – George, Craig, John, Nate, Ron,
Karen and Sandy. I took home 40.00 and Karen took home 30.00. Sorry boys, the
girls are better Texas Holdem players.
22
This
morning we are having some rain. I worked on some indoor stuff and helped our
neighbor with some computer issues. John washed, waxed and buffed Big Red, so
he’s looking good. We took a walk around and lake and relaxed this evening.
21
Even though it’s Sunday we are not having a
party today because of our Big Party yesterday. So John and I headed into Key
West for some shopping and then back to the cow. We took a nice walk around the
lake and most everything was quite. Just a nice relaxing day.
20 Today is
another BIG Party. Our campground has been written up in the Miami Herald as a
New Music Venue down in the Florida Keys. John and I are helping with setup and
stage security again.
The entire concert day will be broadcast live on CWColt.com. Scroll to the
bottom to access it. You may see us periodically on the broadcast.
Here is the deal on today.
“Concert in the Park” 1pm – 9pm Lazy Lakes RV Resort Sunny and 75
degrees
1p – 2p Chris Cook –
www.chriscookmusic.com – A mix
between Marvin Gaye, Delbert McClinton and the Allman Brothers with a little
Merle Haggard for country flavor
215p – 315p Dave Aaron –
www.davidaaronmusic.com –
Talented singer/songwriter that sounds like Kenny Chesney mixed with George
Strait
330p – 430p CW Colt –
www.piratetreasures.com –
Caribbean Country Blues Master
445p – 545p Horse Pistols – Country meets a loud
guitar and they party
6p – 7p Howard Livingston and Mile Marker 24 –
www.milemarker24.com – 2009 Trop Rock Entertainer and
album of the year
715p – 815p Paul Cotton of Poco –
www.paulcotton.com – Multi Platinum recording artist
performing his hit songs “Heart of the Night” and “Crazy Love”
I will update again soon on the rest of the day with pictures.
OK - Here's the update---
John and I started out around 11am helping to setup and get things organized.
We were planning on helping again with stage security so we had our security
shirts on. However around 1230pm we were having a beer and Joe told us that if
we were going to work security we couldn’t drink. Well, ok we quit. We changed
our shirts and got another beer.
We are still helping, but now the bands are starting.
We have our chairs set up in the 2nd row right behind Linda. It was
a great day. The weather was beautiful sunny and around 80 degrees with a
slight breeze.
Joe had made some sangria for the band members
and asked us to get him a glass and ourselves also. Debbie and I went to get
them. Great sangria. John didn’t want his and so Debbie and I shared it. We
took lots of pictures and I did a lot of dancing. Debbie, Judy and I were
dancing away, but then Debbie needed a break. Too much sangria and beer.
Once
Howard came on and broke out the Johnson, we added
margaritas to that list. After
Paul Cotton from Poco, the party was over (we
thought). Linda told us to stop at the clubhouse for a private party. Joe had
a reggae musician with steel drums playing and a bunch of campers were already
there. We partied some more and when the music was over, we all headed back to
our cows around midnight.
19
Every day is getting nicer. Today John is still working on the rig. I did
laundry and had to go pick up some RV supplies for John. Later we took a walk
around the lake to check out how tomorrows BIG Party is coming together.
Tonight is movie night, so after dinner we headed down to the clubhouse. Since
it’s light later now, the movie has to start later. We had quite a crowd about
20 people. It was still inside since we are all wimps and get chilled easily.
Craig got “Avatar” for tonight’s viewing. It’s long about 3 hours, but it was
really good. I heard it’s out in theaters in 3D. It would be very cool to see
again in 3D.
18
Nice
day. I am working on the inside of the cow and some TCI stuff and John is still
washing, waxing and buffing out the outside of the rig. It’s great it’s light
later. We had some cocktails outside with our new neighbor Carlos. Carlos has
a bird that's very friendly, his name is Sunshine. I introduced Magic and
Gypsy to him. Then we all went and visited with Tammi. It started to get dark
and saw Craig and Debbie and George and Darlene and ended up at Craig and
Debbie’s with a fire in their back yard.
17
This
morning is a cool 60 degrees and rainy morning. I am working on some TCI and
computer stuff and John is whipping up a batch of his salsa. The rain let up
around 1pm and John started washing the rig.
16
Pretty soon we will be hitting the road again. John is going to do lots of
cleanup and maintenance on the cow. He wants to clean and seal the roof, wash,
wax and buff out the whole outside and empty and clean the basement. I am going
to work on the inside and some TCI stuff. Tonight we have a pork loin potluck
dinner and then Texas Holdem. The pork loin was excellent and like always way
too much food. Since people are heading out, we didn’t get a card game going,
but we did get 10 to play jokers. Girls against the guys. We whipped them both
games.
15
Another beautiful morning. I finished up our
journal, website and photos and John is starting projects on the cow. Today is
horseshoes. I was paired up with Big John and John was paired up with Mark. I
ended up with 6 ringers today and John had 4. My team was the ultimate
winners. We were the only team that won all 3 of our games. After horseshoes
we got back to the cow and contemplated going to the KOA for happy hour and
bingo. We decided to ground ourselves and have a quite evening at home
14
Today is our Sunday party. I’m really surprised I feel good this morning after
yesterday. Even though I feel good, I’m am going to stick with water today. We
laid in the sun, had sloppy joes and listened to country bluegrass.
13
We
are ready to go!! Today is the
Key West
St. Patty’s Day Bar Crawl. We are leaving at 945am with Liz and Duane and 2
others so 6 total. We are taking the bus round trip. Liz has a bottle of
Pirates Choice Rum and jello shots for us. Already were in trouble and we
haven’t even left yet. We start at the Southernmost Hotel Tiki Bar and get
drinks there and 12 other bars along Duval until we get back to Schooner Wharf.
Liz, Duane, Ron, Gracey, John and I headed out to the bus stop by Mangrove
Mamas at 945am. The bus worked great and we got to the Southernmost Hotel by
1130am. There was already quite a crowd. We made up our rum and cokes and got
our free beer and took in the other characters. We started our stroll. We met
Angelo along the way, he was an Irish Joker today. We met him back at our big
Lazy Lakes party.
There was the snake man with his staff
stick full of Irish whiskey. In addition to our rum and cokes and beers, we had
various jello shots, Irish whiskey, butterscotch and banana shots, and other
alcohol. At Ricks we did our crawl on Duval and continued on to Schooner
Wharf. It was early but we were pretty much done. We lost Ron and Gracey and
decided to go to Outback for dinner then catch our bus. We met Liz and Duane’s
friend Nick at Outback and he gave us a ride back to our campground. We were
home by 9pm. It was a really great day!
12
Now
this is what the keys weather should be like. We were going to go to the pool,
but decided to head up to Marathon to visit with our friend
Stella and
family from Chicago. We got to their condo, CocoPlum. Nice condos, right
on a nice beach with pool, hot tub and tennis courts. After a little walk and a
few beers, we all headed to Island Fish Company restaurant for a late lunch. It
was really nice. We had a table outside right by the water. After lunch the
rain was coming so we sat by the pool under an overhang and watched the
lighting, listened to the surf, visited and had a few cocktails. We didn’t stay
late, they had to get on the road early and we have a big day tomorrow with the
Key West St. Patty’s Day Crawl.
11
Nice
warm morning. A little overcast and a few showers but really comfortable.
After coffee, we headed to Big Pine Key to give blood. The blood mobile had an
accident, so that will have to wait until another day. We stopped at the bait
shack for bait. We checked our trap, but only had 1 pinfish. We will have to
try another location. We went to the east end of Niles Channel. It’s very
shallow there. We caught some
mangrove
snappers, John caught a really big one. I caught a couple pompano jacks and
John also caught another pelican. It was a little windy, but warm about 82 and
sunny so a very nice day. After dinner we went to the clubhouse for the weekly
ice cream social then played some jokers.
10
Ahhhh! The mornings are getting much
nicer. It’s about 71 this morning with a little overcast and a few sprinkles.
But it’s great that it’s getting so nice in the mornings. After laundry we took
a 2 mile walk to the Bow Channel Bridge, the KOA and then back. We got caught
in the rain so we got some coffee and relaxed at the KOA. We had a phone
appointment for our taxes, so after that we did some reading and dinner.
Now we are heading over to the KOA
tonight. There are about 15 people from our campground going over.
Dave Aaron
and the band are doing a live CD recording tonight. It was pretty cool. They
did 2 takes, so we had the same CD recording back to back. Even though we have
seen them a few times before, I never really met the rest of the boys in the
band, just Dave. Wally is the harmonica player, Scott is on keyboards and Kenny
is on drums. After the music was over we talked with them a while and then
headed back to our campground. Linda and Joe gave us a ride in their new 57
Chevy golf cart.
9
Today I
think we are going to have a very full day. Some friends from Chicago are down
and staying in Marathon and may head on down to Key West today. We have some
other friends that are driving to Key West from Ft. Myers for a one night stay.
So we will probably end up down in KW today. However, tonight is pizza party
night and Texas Holdem. Since I’m kinda the organizer for TH we should be
there. Who knows what will actually happen?????
We ended up driving down to Key West to meet up with our friends
Kenny and
Kim and Kim’s sister Debbi. We started at Ricks. Alfonso was playing and then
CW Colt. There was a cruise ship in port and spring break is starting so the
streets and bars were much more crowded than usual for a Tuesday afternoon.
After some cocktails and music, we all walked on over to Schooner Wharf. We
stayed for a couple more cocktails then John and I had to head back.
We got back perfect timing for our
pizza party and then Texas Holdem. Tonight we had George, Nate, Ron, Jerry,
Oscar, Patrick, John and myself. John and I didn’t do so well this week.
Neither one of us won anything. The 1st game Patrick won, Nate came
in second and Jerry came in 3rd. The second game we had only 6
players, 2 payouts, 1st was Oscar and 2nd was Patrick.
8
Now this is what Florida Keys weather should
be. It’s sunny with a slight breeze and 68 degrees this morning. We had coffee
on our patio and then walked over to the clubhouse for coffee and doughnuts.
Today is
horseshoe tournament day. I was paired up with Mary Lou and John was with
Carolyn. I ended up with 3 ringers and John had 1 ringer. We played another
game and then headed back to the cow. We decided to ground ourselves tonight.
7
Bright sunny morning. Still a bit cool, but
getting warmer every day. Today is our Sunday party. Chicken wire is playing.
It turned out to be a sunny and warm day. We sat by the pool and listened to
music. John played some horseshoes.
6
Another sunny and cool morning. The weather is
supposed to break soon. We all can’t wait. We headed out for fishing today.
Our trap didn’t have any pinfish, so we went to the marina and got some shrimp.
We fished on the side of the
Bow
Channel Bridge. We caught some and a couple keepers. We had some pesky
pelicans pestering us while we were fishing. Later we headed into Big Pine for
grocery shopping and then jokers tonight. Another full day.
5
Sunny and 54 degrees. Hey
the low is only supposed to be 67 what is the 54 degrees about? Since we put
our trap out yesterday, we decided to head out fishing today. We went and got
our bait from our trap. We had 8 pinfish. It doesn’t sound like much, but for
the 1st time, it is good. Good too, since if you buy 8 pinfish at
the bait store it would be 8.00. We tried in the canal by the marina on Cudjoe
Key. Nice, sunny, sheltered from the wind, but no fish. Then we moved to the
bridge at
Bow
Channel. It is still under repair, so we fished on the side. Actually I
like that area, it’s sheltered from the wind, place to put your bait and catch
in the water. We caught 2 Mangrove Snapper keepers. We went to clean them and
then put the guts back in our fish trap to catch bait for tomorrow.
After we got back, we took a
walk to the clubhouse. I think it got up to 62 today. It’s actually pretty
nice in the sun and sheltered from the wind. I enjoyed some sun while John and
Jim played a game of horseshoes. We came back and did some reading, had dinner
and got ready for Friday night at the movies. Tonight Craig has “Couple
Retreat” and Street Kings or something like that. While we were waiting for
people, Craig had a Jeff Dunham Comedy that was really entertaining.
4
Sunny and 59 degrees. We decided to have an
investigative day. We headed over to Cudjoe Key to check out some fishing
areas. Then we decided to go get Johns fish trap he built and try to catch some
pinfish. We dropped it in the water and will back tomorrow to see. We headed
down to
Geiger Key. They have a nice walking beach it is sheltered from the wind,
the sun was out and it was really nice. We took a nice walk. Then we stopped
at the campground on Geiger. We checked it out and had a cocktail in the
outside bar. They have entertainment Thursday’s through Sunday, but we just
haven’t made it yet.
Now we headed on to the
American
Legion on Stock Island. When we were visiting John’s cousin Cathy in South
Carolina, we went to the American Legion where she goes often and they gave us a
license plate to pass on along our journey. So now it’s at the Southernmost
American Legion. Karen the bartender gave us one of there license plates to
pass along somewhere. We’ll have to see where it ends up.
Now we headed to Key West. We parked over
on Fleming and Grinnell and walked on down to Duvall. We made our way to the
wharf area and stopped at Alonzo’s Oyster Bar for happy hour. Big John and
Kathy recommended it for happy hour. All drinks, even top shelf are half off
and appetizers too. So I had a key lime martini with grey goose. John had a
beer and we got some onion rings and spinach oysters. We had a couple more
drinks and Big John and Kathy came to say hi. They were there with some
friends. We had a full day and headed back to our cow.
3
Today is sunny but temps are going down. We
took a walk around the lake. We headed down the road to one of the trails John
wanted to investigate. It was short and there wasn’t much there. We headed
back and stopped to play a game of horseshoes. It was sunny and windy, but if
you were sheltered from the wind it was really warm. We decided to go to the
pool. We got some sun, did some reading until the clouds and rain moved in. We
went back to the cow and did a little more reading, then had dinner and headed
over to the clubhouse. There is a jokers tournament tonight. Even though I
think I’m pretty good at jokers, Ron and I were the ultimate losers tonight.
This is twice out of three tournaments that I was an ultimate loser. Hey,
that’s ok, I still doubled my money since losers won something.
2
This morning is sunny and
much warmer. We took a nice walk around the lake and then a storm came in so we
hunkered down in the cow for a little while then the sun came back out and it is
nice and warm, so we took another walk over to the KOA bridge. John found some
trails to investigate. We had a couple cocktails on our verandah and then got
ready for the Mexican Potluck. I made a beef, rice and beans dish in the
crockpot with tortillas. Like always we ate too much, but everything was so
good.
Afterwards we got our Texas Holdem game
going. 1st game was Pat, Ron, John Nate, me, George and Oscar.
George came in 2nd and Oscar came in 1st. It’s pretty
cool that Oscar plays. He’s legally blind and can’t see. We set up a big light
behind him. This way he can see his cards. He sets his chips up in order and
we told him the values. We called out the flop, turn and river cards. The
second game we had Nate, me, Gerald, Pat, John and Oscar. John came in 2nd
and Oscar won again.
1
This morning is bright and sunny but cool, again. We are
ready like everyone else down here for some normal hot and dry weather. We have
another cold front coming this week, and then it should start to get back to
normal. Campers are starting to head “on the road again”. Lou, Rebecca and Ted
are leaving this morning. John did his 6.5 mile hike to the burned out bridge
and back and I did some TCI stuff. We had our weekly horseshoe tournament at
1pm. John ended up with 2 ringers and I had 3 ringers today. After horseshoes
we decided to stay around the cow. We had a nice Mahi Mahi grilled dinner and
just relaxed. You know, you have to take a party break sometimes
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