Today Key West!
A soft easy blog. A few incidentals and me added too.
Me first.
Still not well. I wanted to dress and go out a bit today. Nothing big. It was not possible. The gout it my right foot prohibited it. The pain with each step unbelievable.
I am taking 16 pills a day. Some to bring the swelling down. It will work in due course. Wish it would hurry.
Slept 9-4. Good! I was not sleeping at all.
Took a shower. First since last friday. Did I need it! Corey came over in case I fell.
I am eating big time. From not eating earlier in the week to devouring everything. I miss the hospital food. It was that good and I did not have to prepare it.
I see the Key West revolutionary spirit coming to the forefront. Good! Citizens are coloring certain things. The cross walks were removed. Such asses in Tallahassee. Some locals planted colored metal polls on the sidewalks away from the foot traffic and close to the street. Neither interfere nor involve street traffic.
For school children, this is Fie Prevention Week. Remember…..we all did it. Stood outside in front of a fire truck and one of our classmates made a prevention speech. I did it in the sixth grade. I was unaware I had been selected. Came to school in a white tee shirt and pants. The nun sent me home to dress better. I lived around the corner from the school.
My parents were working. I grabbed a suit coat that fit me well and returned. It was enough to make the nun happy.
I recall the last sentence of my speech to this day. Mine. “A match has a head, but no brain.” I was so proud of it!
On this day in 1934, Maria Gustens, Matron of Mercedes hospital for 22 years was made aware she had been awarded the Cora of the Order of Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, an honor given by the Cuban government for “outstanding service rendered to Cuba, etc.”
The last hospital where she served in now an apartment house on Virginia Street.
Some who resided there claim Gustens appeared to them. Some claim she touched them. I buy that she resides there and is in effect a ghost.
On this day in 1953, Mary Lee Grohas became the first woman to be elected President of the Key West Chamber of Commerce. Back in Utica, I was a Chamber member for many years. Never President. Whatever, I found time on the Chamber provided the opportunity to quietly solve many community problems. I am confident Grohas performed in a similar fashion.
On this day in 1997. former President George H. W. Bush was n the Keys for the annual Governor Bush bonefish tournament which was held further up the Keys.
Forget not Hugh’s View – the roof of Book & Books. Thursday evenings from 6 pm till sunset. Enjoy a drink and be in the middle of sunset!
Of the top 10 cities nationally with high grocery prices, 5 are Americans. San Francisco #2, New York City #4, Boston#5, Chicago #6, Los Angeles #7.
Aristotle: “For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.”
Sorry it took so long to do a relatively short blog. My mind and body are working that way.
Enjoy your day!