Millie just read the blog posting and reminded me that I
didn’t mention the nice restaurant on Marathon
were we had lunch during our Keys tour. Its called the Sunset Grill and sits
on the southern tip of Marathon overlooking
the seven mile bridge. We ate there several years ago and I don’t remember it
being this nice, they must have remodeled it.
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| At the Sunset Grill in Marathon Florida |
It is an open air restaurant under a large tiki hut style
thatched roof. We had a table overlooking the swimming pool, which by the way,
we thought was an odd location for a pool. While a few of the bathers were visually
scrumptious, most reminded you to at least look at the lite fair section of the
menu!
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| Seven Mile Bridge |
We did have an excellent view of the seven mile bridge and
the surrounding waters. Note: the section of the old bridge that is used by
walkers, bicycles and fishermen is being repaired and not open to the public. I
don’t know how long it will be before it is reopened.
Poor Maggie is not having a good winter. She’s no longer
bike riding and we have stopped her swimming pool use.
Some of you may remember when she was a puppy I built her a
sidecar for my bike. She seemed to enjoy that and we pedaled several hundred
miles around the campgrounds of Florida,
lights flashing and bubbles streaming out the back.
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| Maggie and the sidecar circa 2010 |
I took the sidecar out of
storage last winter, reconditioned it with new paint, lights and bubble
machine. Maggie didn’t like it, she went along with my foolishness
but I could tell she didn’t like it. When we got back to Myrtle Beach I gave the bike and sidecar to a
local Shriner who is going to use it in parades.
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| Maggie and the sidecar in 2017 |
This winter, undaunted by Maggie’s antipathy for the sidecar,
I rigged a basket to the handlebars of my beach bike, Millie made a pillow for
it and we assumed the family would be pedaling around the campground together, albeit
without the lights and bubbles.
Maggie doesn’t like it. We’re not sure why but we’re not going
to force her to ride, she now watches us from her window on the world (the
dashboard of the motorhome) You might ask how I know what she’s feeling, after
nine years together we have kind of an unspoken language. I can usually pick up
on visual cues and know what she wants or needs.
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| Maggie and her swimming pool |
The swimming pool is the opposite emotion for her; she is
obsessed with looking for bubbles in it and will walk around in the shallow
water for hours. Unfortunately in the past year she has developed a persistent
skin rash. We have been to the vet several times for it and we thought we had
it cleared up but it has reappeared. We had our wonderful veterinarian
(Veterinary Clinic of Myrtle Beach) send a prescription to the Costco down here
and we are working to clear it up again. Thinking that Maggie being wet for
hours might be a contributing factor we have put the pool away. And thus was
borne the phrase, “not a happy camper!”
