It was great to get back home to Key West after the show although the island had a big power and internet outage that seems to have done some damage. Our phones at Small Dog were out for a couple of days and a bunch of my home automation gear had to be reset.

I really find the home automation stuff interesting and I like playing around with it at my house. Now that I have found HomeKit compatible locks and thermostats I will have to change some stuff up because ultimately I like Siri a lot more than Alexa.

I am still struggling with tropical gardening. My citrus plants, orange, lemon and lime just don’t seem to want to produce. I spent some time trying to figure out what was going on and I think it is mostly pests like ants, leafminers and aphids so we are trying some organic solutions to combat those bugs and fertilizing a lot so the plant has the strength. Very different than Vermont where you toss a seed in the ground and just watch it grow.

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Don, Emily & Hadley