Some time outside

I spent a bit of time outside with my plants today, which always brings a smile to my face. The "Grand Duke of Tuscany" jasmine is still blooming. It is such a lovely plant! The buds are striking, and even the spent buds are still lovely....staying in form instead of shedding petals like many flowering plants do.

The red passion flower vine is going crazy, due to some recent rain and lots and lots of sunshine. It will literally cover a fence if we don't use that entrance for a few days, and it features lovely, pea-like tendrils as it looks for anything to latch on to.

 I really need to spend some time cutting dead wood back from along the fence, but in the meantime it is always wonderful to walk outside to be greeted by one of these beauties.

This morning I also had some time to "bedazzle" the outdoor refrigerator. An outdoor fridge in the real world is kind of redneck, but down here, where it is hot and the majority of people fish, it is a staple. When we bought a new refrigerator soon after buying this house, the delivery guys said "Well, I hope you are keeping the old one for beer and bait!" We did. John has a keg system in the house so he always has a cold Sierra Nevada Pale Ale on tap, so the outdoor fridge generally holds bottled water, pinot grigio, La Croix water and juice boxes. So I didn't feel too badly covering it with these girly stickers today.

John built a little "house" for it a while ago, and the vines have taken over. The white shed is also home to our "journey marker" which lists the places we were all born and the cities we have lived in before Key West.

We spend easily more time outside than inside, year 'round. The grill is on one side of this structure, and there is an outdoor dining table on the other side. Kind of an outdoor dining/cooking area, but nothing fancy by any stretch. Just easy and functional.....very Key West. :)