Listen, we’ve lived here 120 miles off the tip of America’s wang for two entire months now, so basically I’m now an expert at everything Key West*. It’s true that one of my favorite parts of moving somewhere so completely different from the places you know is that everything is new, and there are a million things to learn. I absolutely ...

We’re having a cold snap this week. It’s windy – like really windy, averaging 20-25mph – so the temperatures have been a lot lower than the previous several weeks. And when I say ‘cold snap’, I mean it’s 75 degrees. It’s perfect. So I worked on the patio today. Some of the chickens weren’t that thrilled to find me sitting ...

This morning, we headed to the Key West Garden Club plant sale at Martello Tower (the place I first learned that you could grow a billion varieties of orchids outdoors in Key West). I bought a bromeliad (another plant-nerd plant, from what I’ve heard), a couple air plants, a piece of cypress with a hanger that a couple in Fort ...