Wildlife and Wildplants in Florida, Organic Foods, Cheap Gas, Really ..You can't make this stuff up Key West and Myakka River

Ok I have so much to write I am hoping on a totally rainy day to do it!  First of all...all of the Keys have chickens roaming around the streets and Winn Dixie parking lots (What kind are these Ben? and can they be hybrids because we understand they came in with the first settlers in the 1800s or earlier and everyone protects them and also the 6 toed feral cats that Hemingway had... . It like the prairie dogs in the West in the shopping centers.) We have gone to Winn Dixie Groceries for two reasons:  We always shopped Winn Dixie or Publix growing up as kids because those stores were closest to home or because that is where our MOMMAs and Grannies shopped. John Needham, my stepfather, and my mother had stock in Winn Dixie because they worked for the companies that insured Winn Dixie before they went bankrupt.    Publix has a better reputation, but truthfully today they didn't have hardly any more organic, free range, natural stuff than Winn Dixie so we went to WD and also because WD has a deal , you can get off 10 cents for each gallon of gas.  Pat told me we paid between $1.90 and $2.19 here in Florida and he has many reasons why the Mideast Oil producing countries like this cheap gas as well as us???? I keep thinking we need to charge as much Europe and then maybe we will also invest more in renewable energies.   But he is pleased when he gets a deal.
We left the Keys and are now at Myakka River. We saw a feral hog that was almost as big as the buffalo that chased us this summer but with shorter legs last evening.  Thank goodness it was only one and we were in the RV and not the death group of  peccaries we saw in Costa Rica. Pat made me ride the bike miles, miles today so that he can be ready for the NY marathon in May... at least 20 miles today.  Have to go he gave me the 30 minute waring and I am the assistant sous chef tonight and have to finish the bok choy apple slaw.Yum, yum.
Here are some of the last photos in Key West.  We visited two places Audubon House with beautiful orchids and bromeilads and Butterfly Conservatory that had neat birds like the blue honey creeper and the flamingoes below. We went to 0mile marker on US 1 and had lunch at the 68th best restaurant in the country Garbos Grill which is just a food cart. We  grilled heirloom tomato on the thickest hamburger and chipotle gouda cheese. You can tell food is on my mind tonight.