The newspaper says the military is cutting back in Key West and the Navy Construction Battalion and Maintenance unit is going away in September. It's only a few dozen sailors in a town that is home to about 7,000 military but the paper remembered the public works carried out by the Sea Bees especially after hurricanes. Cutbacks are in the air.
A brilliant mailbox. One not devoted to sand sea palms boats and manatees (mine has the usual display of palms, ahem). I liked the bright splash of color. 
Cheyenne failed to notice entirely the gorgeous banana tree growing out of the boat. I hope our banana tree someday gets this tall. It was a birthday gift to my wife from Lucy. I have been watering it assiduously in the hope one day of getting fruit from it. 
This one showed no fruit but the leaf span was impressive from a tree so short. 
There are no squirrels in the Lower Keys, and though I have seen a couple of escaped tame rabbits there are no wild rabbits supposed to be in the Lower Keys. For which I am grateful as iguanas are vegetable predators enough. However there are lots of raccoons.
Trash cans require well fitting lids.
A brilliant mailbox. One not devoted to sand sea palms boats and manatees (mine has the usual display of palms, ahem). I liked the bright splash of color. 
Cheyenne failed to notice entirely the gorgeous banana tree growing out of the boat. I hope our banana tree someday gets this tall. It was a birthday gift to my wife from Lucy. I have been watering it assiduously in the hope one day of getting fruit from it. 
This one showed no fruit but the leaf span was impressive from a tree so short. 
There are no squirrels in the Lower Keys, and though I have seen a couple of escaped tame rabbits there are no wild rabbits supposed to be in the Lower Keys. For which I am grateful as iguanas are vegetable predators enough. However there are lots of raccoons. 
Trash cans require well fitting lids.
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Isn't the lower keys marsh rabbit (Sylvilagus palustris hefneri)a wild rabbit of the Keys? I believe the Lower Keys Marsh rabbit was named in honor of Hugh M. Hefner in recognition of the financial support received by his corporation (Playboy).
Wow! I see you are really doing it - going for five posts a day! Good luck with it. I will watch to see how it all works out for you.
Gary- maybe thats what I keep seeing near the Ramrod Pool.
Bill- according to Belew it takes about ten months of constant effort to make the search engines notice your blog. I am looking forward to seeing if that happens. Meanwhile I keep taking pictures and hoping for the best.
I feel certain you could do the same with your narratives (and pictures) cut into five. I figure there's nothing to lose but a year of my life!
Michael -
I still say you have to finish with a hook which ties individual posts together; these early attemps at post quantity are not as introspective as your daily observations - as if the process of rumination aged your observations as if to mimic fine wine.
Perhaps it's a process - one in which one achieves the blogging equivalent of Beaujolais though concerted effort.
Goreges DeBouf would be proud.
Chuck on Fleming.
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