I used to be a lone eagle final evening. Determined on the final minute to exit to dinner.
Telephoned TK to save lots of me a seat on the bar at Antonia’s. TK has been a good friend for 30 years. About the identical variety of years he has bartended at Antonia’s.
Simply my luck. TK stated he had lastly retired 3 weeks in the past and didn’t know who the brand new bartender was.
I’ve all the time felt kindly in the direction of TK. He was the primary individual to ask me to his residence for dinner. We have been new to Key West having solely not too long ago bought the house in Key Haven. Met TK. He was bartending at one other restaurant on the time. He invited me, my spouse and daughter Lori to his residence for Thanksgiving dinner. A sort and welcoming act.
I finished at Antonia’s anyhow hoping to seize an empty seat on the bar. No method. Packed. Folks ready for bar seats and tables.
Walked over to La Trattoria. Some empty seats on the bar. I grabbed one.
Did a nasty factor. I ordered a drink. My first in additional than a yr. The medical doctors stated no extra ingesting following my coronary heart assault. I felt lonely and capitulated to the sensation by imbibing. Just one, nonetheless. A Beefeater on the rocks. So good! Loved it slowly.
A pair sat subsequent to me after some time. Sue and Jimmy from North Haven, Connecticut. A captivating couple. Mid-60s. Each retired. Sue the supervisor of a restaurant, Jimmy a challenge supervisor for a corporation that repaired fireplace and water injury. Two kids, seven grandchildren.
I spent a lot of the night speaking with Sue who was seated subsequent to me.
They have been on trip. Spent solely 2 days in Key West. Had been leaving this morning. That they had stopped at Key Largo on the way in which down and as we speak have been going to Marathon for a couple of days. Retired, they now traveled a lot. Key West was “on their bucket listing.”
I admonished Sue that they needed to keep 1-2 weeks in Key West to find its taste. The one enjoyable spot within the Keys. Key Largo and Marathon boring compared. Recommended she and her husband return. Let me know first so I might put together an itinerary for them that will enable them to benefit from the taste of the neighborhood.
My meal was good. An egg plant appetizer and a half order of penne pasta in a garlic and oil sauce. Simply sufficient.
Whereas Presidnet, Harry S Truman made 11 journeys to Key West totaling 175 days. Key West turned his run away place to relaxation whereas President. He returned a number of instances when an unusual citizen.
One such go to was on this present day in 1957. A kind of enterprise combined with pleasure journey. He appeared at a dinner held in his honor on the Casa Marina Lodge. The dinner was a fundraiser for the Truman Presidential Library.
On this present day in 1945, the Marines raised the U.S. flag on Iwo Jima. The photograph has change into a U.S. treasure.
Folks singer Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land” this present day in 1940. It has change into certainly one of America’s most well-known people songs.
Got here throughout a photograph on the web this morning of kids in a U.S. hospital in an iron lung. The usual therapy for polio earlier than the introduction of the Salk vaccine.
Watch out for Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s makes an attempt to rid the U.S. of the vaccine. Our youngsters will return to the iron lung existence if he does.
Abraham Lincoln arrived in Washington, D.C. this present day in 1861 to imagine the Presidency. He made the journey in disguise exercising every kind of deception. There was no Secret Service again then. Seven states had already seceded. The specter of his assassination was heavy within the air.
I shut with a suggestion for prayers. Two.
One for Pope Francis. It’s questionable whether or not he’ll get better from his current sickness.
The opposite for our nation. The US of America. We want it! If Trump is profitable in what he’s doing, america will now not exist as we’ve recognized it.
Get pleasure from your Sunday!