Key West Lou / BUFFETT WEEKEND BEGINS…..US 1 NOW JIMMY BUFFETT MEMORIAL HIGHWAY

Th time has arrived. Jimmy Buffett Weekend. A deserved celebration of the man’s life.

Key West cannot do enough to honor him.

Yesterday, Route 1, aka A1A, running from Key West north some 340 miles in Florida was named the “Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway.” There was a time back when Buffett named one of his albums A1A. Ironic the highway will now carry his name forever.

Buffett’s sister Lucy is in Key West for the weekend to celebrate the various activities honoring her brother. She accepted the sign yesterday reflecting the renaming of A1A after her brother.

Today, the next part of Buffett’s history involves Parrotheads.

Parrothead is a commonly used name for Buffett fans. Even their children have a name: Parrotkeets or Keets. Proving the tradition will live on.

Parrotheads meet annually in Key West for a 5 day festival held after Fantasy Fest each year. The event attracts approximately 5,000 Parrotheads.

Tomorrow, Buffett’s writings.

Live and learn.

Why are cans “ribbed?”

Reasons are based in engineering. The ribs allow the can to flex slightly during the heating and canning process. They also add structural stability to the product when it is shipped and stored.

When were cigars invented? Not in Key West, though a major producer of cigars many years ago. Cigars date back to around 2500 B.C., when the Mayans began cultivating tobacco for medicinal purposes.

Sex and crickets. Cricket screaming is a call for a mate. Sex desired. Some smaller crickets, in order to amplify their “scream-screaming,” will chew a pear shaped hole in a leaf and position their body in such a way that the noise they are making is amplified.

Pope Francis says it is not that bad to have sex outside marriage. He said extra marital sex is “not the most serious” sin.

A sin nevertheless. Our Lady of Fatima said to Saint Jacinta in 1919: “More souls go to Hell because of sins of the flesh than any other reason.”

Francis in my opinion was not justifying fornication. He was merely putting out there a hierarchy when it comes to sin. Genocide, murder and such are much worse. Definitely sins, however. Ergo, wrong acts.

Boils down to a sin is a sin!

As a practical matter, I find it hard to believe that Hitler and I will be mates in Hell. His Holocaust far outweighs my few sexual transgressions over the years which I confessed, said my three Hail Marys and was forgiven.

When I was in high school, I worked in a then styled super market six days a week. Five after school and all day saturday.

I did everything monday through thursday.  Stocked, weighed and marked fruits and vegetables, and sliced cold cuts mostly. Friday nights and all day saturday, I would bag groceries at the check out counter. Brown paper bags of all sizes. The two largest were difficult to carry to a customer’s car when loaded. Heavy! Carts were light and not permitted outside the store.

Plastic bags did not exist back then. We’re talking 1949-1953. Don’t think plastic was invented yet.

Guess who invented the paper bag. It was 1868. A woman cotton mill worker, Margaret Knight. She invented a machine to make the bags with a flat square bottom. Paper bags originally looked like large envelopes.

A man named Chares Annan saw her design and tried to patent the idea first. Knight said, No way Jose! Stood her ground. Filed a lawsuit and in 1871 won the patent for her design.

I received a comment yesterday re the attacking of a Colorado apartment by illegal immigrants. I checked it out. The story appeared 3 times on right wing MAGA sites. Made them questionable in my mind. So I did not report on the substance of the comment.

Received another comment later in the day from another reader claiming the “apartment story” was only being reported by the right wing press. The writer viewed it as fake news designed to be a political “Willie Horton” event.

I researched the issue again last night.

Colorado Governor Jared Polis had the matter investigated. The Governor reported the armed gang takeover was ‘imagination.” Police intelligence supported the Governor’s position. Claimed it was a feature of “Danielle Jurinsky’s imagination.”

I can’t figure out who Jurinsky is. The Governor is adamant the whole thing, including the photos, are a phony. The local DA claims the story is true.

I report what I have read. Where is the truth? What is the truth? I’m sue the truth will out in due course. Another 24-48 hours should clearly establish the truth.

Tomorrow’s blog will be interesting. Even, exciting. I plan on presenting my first Jack Barron painting which will be offered for sale.

Enjoy your day!

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