Ernie’s House

The Florida Keys are made up of a few islands.
Like 1700, give or take a few 😉
Key West is at the very tip of the island chain and is only abut 90 miles from Cuba.

It’s a land of tall pies

restaurant going roosters

and color that will make you stop dead in your tracks!!!!

Author Ernest Hemingway called Key West home for awhile.
Ernest had a few cats.
Like 40, give or take a few 😉
Those cats had 6 toes, instead of the usual 5.
That’s a lot of toes.
Eddie is a big fan of Ernest.  Says he was a man of great wisdom….loves to quote him.
“Cat’s were put into the world to disprove the dogma that all things were created to serve man. ”
No surprise that Ernie’s house, as Ed calls him, was where Eddie wanted to meet up with me.

Ernie’s cats have the run of the place.

A fresh water fountain

(originally a urinal at Hemingway’s favorite Key West bar, Sloppy Joe’s)

gutters to nap on

flower beds to relax

lots of places to position for a pounce

and all because they are descendants of Ernie’s original cats with  6 cute little toes 🙂

check out those “mittens”

So there was a bit of an incident with Ed (we will all now feign some shock…)

Eddie’s observation on the incident??  “The sign said nothing about laying on the furniture.”
I didn’t even bother to argue.  I had places to go and banjo playing Darth Vadars  to see.
Key West—-I get all hot and bothered just thinking about it 🙂

P.S.  I had several folks wanting to know the color of my nail polish in my last post pics.  It’s called, oddly enough, “I Don’t Bite”  — a perfect rebuttal to my sister’s last text message….

P.P.S.  A new workshop has been added for Shreveport, Louisiana—for details, just click here 

and no, I haven’t left for home yet.
I am getting pretty good at digging my heels in the sand….