chocolate mussolini

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 ...

Everyone who’s spent time in the Caribbean is aware of the concept of island time, because nothing is on that important a schedule. It can be maddening on your first visit, but eventually you get used to it. Key West has a slight case of island time, though nothing like you’d encounter in Jamaica. Most things here are slowed down ...