Summer time

Wow.... what a season we had here at Key West finest Coffee House, the Coffee Plantation.
With all the worlds economic crisis and global terror fears, we here in Key West lived our season to the fullest. Business was good, some days even better than last year and time for anything other than having fun living here in Key West was hard to find.
Every Wednesday the Bocce athletes of the Coffee Plantation did their best this spring season for a playoff spot, and we failed, we where the big losers this time but we didn't care, we had a great time loosing....
Plenty of exciting things happened this winter, we took out of the water the Schooner Western Union for his big restoration project, and we brought the "Van Den Berg", another ship, to the bottom of the ocean.
This spring Theo became a United States Citizen, after all this time living in the US and the desire to become part of the election process, he raised his hand and pledged his heart to the flag of the United States. Wow... that was a big one....






















Between all this excitement of this busy season the barista crew found time to go to Rick Worths art classes. Theo, Diane and Loretta love their Tuesday class at the Armorie and that shows in the painting we have painted. Check out the paintings of Theo, Diane or Loretta by clicking on our name.

Sweet...

Two and a half years ago I started a quest to get myself my favorite motorcycle by trading up from a red paperclip.
The bike I really wanted was a late seventy's BMW preferably a R90S.
I have reached my goal and I have been driving around our Island on my brand new 1982 BMW R100.
Follow this link to read the whole story....

Definitely "Worth" it

The Coffee Plantation barista team of Diane, Loretta, and Theo have been attending art classes from the famed local Key West artist Rick Worth, Rick is known for it's paintings of our tropical island of Key West and he uses everything he can find to use for his painting pallet.
You can find Rick's work on tin roof panels, cars (yes, cars as in vehicle) and of course canvas.
His classes are attended by art eager locals who would love to pick up some of Rick's incredible talent.
Last night our friend and Key West visitor Cherie joined us for a "art boot camp" class.
The results are phenomenal, who knew, yes, we can be a artist too....

Hot from the press

As the sports page reported....

Key West's Southernmost Bocce League rolled into their spring season opener with excitement this past week. A-Plus Strokers and Bobalu's were the big winners Monday night sweeping all three games against Pallina Posse and Angelina's Pizzeria respectively. The league's reigning champs Cowboy Bill's had a bye giving the Monday night rollers a breather from this dynamic team.

On Tuesday,
Grumpy's Sunset Cigar went 3-0 against Sons of Italy and Margaritaville won all three games against ReMarCables to go 3-0 as well. Meantime Bocce Babes showed some talent and finesse going 2-1 in their match with West Marine.

On Wednesday,
The match of the night was Java Junkies and championship veterans RGC Insurance. Java Junkies jumped out with a 16-5 win but went down in flames 16-12 in both the second and third game of the match. The consistent Green Parrot team and Beer 30 started their season 3-0 making Keys Breeze Realty and Sans Balls rethink their strategy.

On Thursday,
Bocce Bubbas were perfect and took all three against Kathy's Krusaders while the match up of DonKeys and Schoonfield was intense. DonKeys edged out Schoonfield 16-15 in their first game but Schoonfield came back in the second and third game winning their match 16-11, and 16-13 to start 2-1.

Bocce Fever

It's that time of the year...
The Southernmost Bocce League teams are getting ready for the spring season opening games.
Fee's are being paid...,balls are being polished..., and the beer coolers are being filled.
Let the games begin...
The Athletes of the Coffee Plantation's official Bocce team the Java Junkies have been preparing for this spring seasons games.
We have been preparing for this upcoming season with talking strategy, and a desire to win.
"Juggling Jason" has been working on his close to the Polina game,
"Dee the Iceman" was, and still is working on his blast techniques,
"On top of the Polina Tom" ordered our weekly suply of Captains Rum and Seven,
"Caffeine Larry" looks more Bocce concentrated than ever,
and, "Dynamite Theo" is going to be their to keep the team caffeinated...
What a team.
We feel, and we hope that we can do better this spring season than our fall seasons 6th place cliffhanger.
After a season of incredible hard work and good sportsman ship we ended just one place away from the desired Southernmost Bocce Championship playoff spot.
Our fans of the Coffee Plantation Bocce Team the "Java Junkies" deserve better.
We as a team are convinced that we can bring home at least one of these widely desired Southernmost Bocce league champion price placks this time around.
Room is being made on the Coffee Plantations wall to hang this treasures Bocce recognition.
We will keep you posted.

Our President

Even though The Acura Sailboat racers are filling up the Coffee Plantation Coffee House for their pre-race caffeine fix this week, we did find the time to call our friend Barack Obama and welcome our new President into his new office.

Besides all the well wishes we had prepared for our commander in chief, we assured him that whenever he decides to travel to our Southernmost City or have a summit with Cuban leader Raul Castro at the Little White House here in Key West, we at the Coffee Plantation would be honored with his visit.

All of us here at the Coffee Plantation would love to provide him with his presidential cup of Cafe Con Leche, we assured him its the best in town. We will even deliver to the little White House....

Appriciated...

You have heard us more than once talk about the locals, tourists, and all other unusual characters entering the Coffee Plantation.
Some with special coffee needs like 25% regular coffee with 75% decaf...., skinny sugar free decaf vanilla latte...., or just, our world famous Costa Rica Reserve.
Some come here to do their office work, write a book, surf the web, enjoy the Coffee Plantation comfort and stay just way to long........, and, some hop in and out, and are out of our hair in seconds.
But one thing that all of our loyal Coffee Plantation customers have in common, and that is they are humorous, honest, and just so nice...
On this Saturday, "Anne Strout", enjoyed her fresh cup of coffee she just had purchased from the Coffee Plantation and was stretching her legs on our comfortable Coffee Plantation front porch.
Time came around for here to continue her walk through our Historic old town Key West district, and, not until the next day did she realized that she had left her camera on our front porch....
A fine Coffee Plantation Customer however, had found her camera and returned it to the Coffee Plantation coffee counter.
Surprised and overjoyed was the reaction of Anne when she heard we found her camera that she had lost the day before.
She made us this incredible creative card with on the back she wrote the story of her tale.

January 2009

THE STORY
I was fadin fast,
I went in for coffee.
They made me a new pot,
Delicious. I sat on the
porch. I left my camera sitting there.
I went away

NEXT DAY
Where is my Camera???
Omygod. looked everywhere. My last
thought, the Coffee Plantation
( No, Hopeless. It's gone.I am sad)
I go there anyway.YES!!
A customer had turned it in.
Wonderful Coffee House with
beautifull Customers. THANK YOU.
----THE END--- by Anne Strout