Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The state and the county had denied power because the low-lying, environmentally sensitive area is prone to flooding and in a federal Coastal Barrier Resource Area, where development is severely restricted.

The  Newtons and Reynolds both knew there was no electricity when they bought their property, but the lure of free money is big for them so they’re continuing the lawsuit.

Comcast is faster and very reliable. From your post yesterday, I’m surprised you’re still not using AOL. Ha.

The presentation will be held at the Lower Keys Property Owners Association building, 1668 Bogie Rd., Big Pine Key (across from the Old Wooden Bridge Marina) on Wednesday, March 25th, at 7 p.m.  Coffee and refreshments will be served.  Mark your calendar now. Events

The Environment Department has already warned that shallow sewage wells in the Florida Keys are frequently nonfunctioning: “…most shallow wells in the Florida Keys are only operational when the tide is receding. …several plants with shallow wells that do not work.” Key West has a Deep Well. Key Largo has a Deep Well. All of us helped pay for them. Cudjoe Regional needs a Deep Well, too. We’ve already been taxed for it and County Commissioners admit they have the money. Why are they risking our water quality so they can pay for somebody’s pet project?

Come to a Benefit to Help Stop Shallow Sewage Wells in the Florida Keys. The local group, Stop Shallow Sewage Wells in the Florida Keys, is holding a benefit to raise money to stop the shallow sewage wells on Cudjoe Key. They plan a fun event with great prizes, great music, and great people. Sunday, March 22 from 3-6 at the Sugarloaf Lodge Tikki Bar, Mile Marker 17. Live music by Larry Smith and Friends, Silent Auction, Great food, Raffles and 50-50. Local residents and businesses have donated very generously. $10 buys you entrance and a chance at some great give-aways. You can buy tickets on line or at the Benefit for food, drinks, raffles and the knowledge that you’ve helped an important local cause. Details and tickets at Events

After a few weeks there I craved American food and found a Dominos Pizza. It was spotless. Indians, not being used to glass you could see through, walked right into the spotless glass doors. A bunch of European and American tourists would sit on the patio chuckling when the Indians would slam into the doors or glass front.

1) Gun owners are more cautious today, with D.C. talk of banning popular ammunition calibers and types. Those signed up for Obamacare are likely to have their doctor ask about “a gun in the house”—increasing sensitivity to questions of privacy. “General Social Survey” are less likely to get “straight shooting” to their questions.

2) The number of Illegal and legal aliens has massively diluted the US population, and they are far less likely to answer those questions.

The noun cattle (which is treated as a plural and has no singular) encompasses both sexes. The singular, cow, unambiguously means the female, the male being bull. The plural feminine form “cows” is sometimes used colloquially to refer to both sexes collectively.

The adjective applying to cattle in general is usually bovine. The terms “bull”, “cow” and “calf” are also used by extension to denote the sex or age of other large animals, including whales, hippopotamuses, camels, elk and elephants.

If “cows” refer to whales, then they don’t drink milk or even seawater, rather extracting moisture from their food and thus don’t drink in the traditional sense. So the correct answer could be “nothing” and doesn’t demonstrate dementia.

The meeting this Sunday promises to be an interesting one since our speaker Vern Bloch has never visited us before. We should see a new viewpoint. He will be bringing lots of plants for sale & raffle — but absolutely no phals.

The March newsletter is here. Full Menu > Ongoing Events

Comcast provides the fastest Internet connection, however your router/modem and computer also need to be fast and not bulked down with malware or overbloated software. What you need is a trained computer professional to come to your house and evaluate everything, your download speed, your computer speed and check the condition of your router/modem (AT&T can be called to check that) and advise solutions/backup plans etc.

I would get into the business myself except for the fact that people don’t want to pay $35-$60 a hour it requires for a $250 cheap PC loaded with crapware they purchased from OfficeMax, nor willing to take the machine to someone for maintenance once a month for a hour or two to keep it that way. Your only other option is to learn all about computers and investigate methods how to keep them fast and well running yourself. When you purchase a computer the next time, talk to a professional around the time a new Windows version is released (Windows 10 is coming soon) and advise you want a machine that lasts 5-7 or 10 years and have them set one up for you. It’s going to cost more upfront, but it will work for up to 10 years (desktop) or 3-5 (laptop) provided it’s not abused, for maximum return on investment. This is how corporations and businesses make their computing purchasing decisions because downtime and slow machines cost them productivity–money. (Ed: Or you could come to the Computer Club and get it done for free. Events)

I’ve been coming to the Keys since about 1949. I was about 10 years old, and my parents would rent an inexpensive (read cheap) cottage for a few days every year. I loved it. Then as a young adult with my own family, we would come to the Keys several times a year trailering a boat and stay in an inexpensive (read cheap) motel three or four times a year as our finances permitted. I really fell in love with the Keys then.

In the mid ‘70’s or so I decided that I wanted to retire to the Keys and began scouring the Keys for property. It wasn’t until ’82 that I found Big Pine, Port Pine Heights, and my own little slice of paradise. I ultimately did retire here and I now love it even more.

One of the many wonders that I’ve found in the Keys is the Coconut Telegraph. It is an amazing piece of work that is the brainchild and love of our Deer Ed. It is read by thousands, not only in the Keys, but nationwide, and even world wide.

I’ve never seen a single website that has all that the CT has to offer. It has fact, rumor, salacious gossip, nasty innuendo, opinions of all stripes, and even jokes. It announces deaths, benefits, births, even affairs. It is an important piece of thousands of daily lives. Our Deer Ed spends untold hours in providing us with world class graphics and animations. He never seems to be unable to punch up a posting with a graphic that is “right on.”

Many of us know just how hard our Deer Ed works to make the CT an interesting and vibrant publication. Many of know that he devotes hours each day so that you and I can feed our CT Jones. It has to be a labor of love because it does not take Piner to know that our Deer Ed is not making a ton of money on the CT. Just check out the ad rates.

And so I offer a deep doff of the very olde FTR fedora to our Deer Ed. I know that many of us in the CT community, and we are a digital community, will also offer Kudos to our Deer Ed. Just take the time and do it. Thanks. Respectfully submitted.   ~FTR

(Ed: Ain’t he sweet!)