We made magic.

Yesterday I was worried about party failure.  The weather had turned too windy and cold.  We were all tired and had no great ideas about what to do on our last day together in Key West.  But we were saved!  I think it was that old idea of just do something, just put one foot in front of the other, just get up from the nap and see what happens.

1.  Donny/George vs. Nannette/Martha at bocce ball just before dark.  We had a 6-6 tie going.  Then George got four balls closer in one turn and finished us off.  (We were just playing to eleven.)

Nan and I tossed the green ball.  You can see we are pretty close to the small white marker ball.
Wham!  George brought it home.

2.  We went back to the boat and found Jenny and had happy hour.  Conversation flowed easily as it does with good friends.

3.  We went to Hogfish Bar and Grill just a mile away on Stock Island instead of driving back into Key West.   We'd never eaten there, but we'd heard good things about the fish dishes.  This is a place frequented by the locals.  In fact, on the menu it says that it is well hidden.  True.  First, we got an easy parking spot.  Second, a band playing acoustic guitars was just two tables away from us.  Moose was the lead.  Third, the food was delicious.  George and Donny got the fried whole hogfish.  I had an amazing grouper with creamy tomato sauce on rice with vegetables.  (Not a french fry in sight.)

See the conch shell hanging above the weather reports?

Nannette, Donny, and Jenny

Thanks to Nan or Jenny for taking our photo too.

4. When we returned to Aunt Aggie, we started sharing music.  Nannette wanted us to hear a song she likes, "40 Dogs (like Romeo and Juliet)" by Bob Schneider;  I wanted them to hear another Bob Schneider tune, "Love is Everywhere."  Pretty cool that we both are Bob Schneider fans.  We didn't know that until last night.  Then Jenny requested "Follow your Arrow" by Kacey Musgraves.  I'd never heard of her before.  We went on like this for an hour, naming our favorites and listening to great music, thoughtful lyrics. It was like a personal poetry reading.  We ended with Nan's request of "Long Black Limousine" by Patty Griffin and my choice, "Just us Kids" by James McMurtry.  That song reminds me of George, Paul, Randy and Donny as boys and now as men.  

5.  We went to bed just before midnight, bonded by music, having learned something about each other through the words in our favorite songs.