Seasons in the Sun

So, there I was in Margaritaville, at the Green Parrot in Key West, pounding down the rum, and taking photos, because the bar is the model for one in my book, wherein the heroine skunks everyone at darts.

We did the "Duval Drag" and marched up and down Duval Street in the June heat. I thought of a winter long ago when the Village People had the hit "Key West" and I used to sing it driving through the snow of the coldest AND snowiest winter on record in Chicago. I was taking classes to learn computer programming.

We had a fab breakfast at a place called "Blue Heaven," with blueberry pancakes that couldn't be beat and the cute little (and big) chickens running all over the place as they do in Key West. They are protected.

The Royal Poincianas (see photo) were blooming their hearts out, and everything was so tropical, and we ate at Mangoes and pounded down some more rum. I thought we might have to crawl back to our lodgings, but we did the Duval drag back to the room.

I completed my research. Yikes! In the book, I had my character swimming and swimming across a canal, and when I saw the canal, she could of crossed it in three strokes, so now she is swimming across the waterway.

Visited the Miami Deli where the drug lord eats lunch, and Lincoln Rd. Mall in South Beach. A man was riding a bicycle with a rooster (crowing to beat all) on the handlebars. Do you think that will go into my book?

So I figure I found about 900 words and it will work out to about a dollar a word which is likely more than I'll get paid for the novel the way things are going. Whatchagonna do?

There was an article in the Sunday paper that bloggers are abandonning their blogs in droves, but Grapeshot won't leave her readers high and dry. Nope.

Sucking It Up is a way of life and the past year and a half countless others have learned to techique, or is it an art?

I am enjoying my new Kindle and reading Josephine Tey's Daughter of Time. Pretty good. A little known fact if that you can put your own documents on the Kindle, and make comments. My friend's manuscript is on the device, and mine soon will be. Now how cool is that? Our friends at Amazon only charge pennies for the service.

We are eating lettuces galore and herbs so fresh they ought to be slapped.

Onward,

Grapeshot