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Published: February 1st 2009
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Friday and Saturday (before our departure from Pine Island) were amazing = it was raining; and since we both still work - Friday was a good "catch up" morning for client stuff - then the Flea Market in Fort Myers - which has a very invigorating mix of cheesy (ACTUALLY FUGLY if you catch my drift) and cool stuff - we got fresh fruits and veggies and a few things to further enhance our lives like special cloth dusters and things to make it easier to maintain plants when one isn't home to do so herself! Back in Matlacha, we stopped at Julie's, an amazing, not to be missed Art Gallery that we had missed on Art Night, and had delish "Queenies Home Made" ice cream at Great Licks. We ate "at home" from the amassed collection "styrofoam jungle" in our fridge and hied ourselves to the Friday Night event at the club house at Pine Island RV Park (newly named "Encore" / known formerly as KOA! What a treat on Friday night - a band composed of Pine Island RV Park residents and visiting musicians made us so happy - we sang along to songs from Mustang Sally to Amazing
The Yard Dogs at Woody
Kevin plays the Rhumba Box, looks like a suitcase with fun stickers on it, and "keys" played like a thumb instrument - Kevin plays wearing work gloves and a beer bottle is perennially in his left hand. Grace (with a 95 year old harmonica player taking the lead); including Ghost Riders, Dicky Dicky High, Wake Up Little Suzy, Good Night Irene, and listened to an amazing accousitc guitar rendition of Beethoven's Fir Elise (which I actually once could - sort of - play on the piano). As children, we always love the Berl Ives song - "Big Rock Candy Mountain" and a man from Kentucky did it great justice, albeit a different, but satisfrying, version, at the jam tonight. We usually are too busy for the "activities" at the "parks" we stay in ... but this was fun! On Saturday we caught the Yard Dogs at Woody's, their high energy, irreverent beach and Cajun mix was a great way to say bye, bye Pine Island and Woody's grouper Po' Boys were yum! Pine Island has great bike paths, hiking trails through preserves, great wild life(human and animals), museums, and fun "fund raising events like a duck race, mullet toss, mayoral election (votes tallied by number of 25 cent beers each candidate has credited to her), painted utility pole contest (very cool local artists show their stuff), bibycle poker run and more. Sunday was a travel day across
The Jeep at Ice Cream Stop
Great Licks has home made Queenies ice cream - delish - the Jeep really fits right in to
Southern Florida! Florida to Jensen Beach. Lots of agriculture and sadly lots of rural poverty.
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Kay
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Your descriptions make us jealous---and longing for warmer weather. BUT pictures are just black squares on my screen! What am I doing wrong!!??