Manor Grove Village

Now and then I have to choose a blog topic that brings back some pleasant memories. One such is a condo in Wilton Manors, Florida: Manor Grove Village. I lived on the second floor of a three-bedroom unit. The condo came with swimming pool, tennis courts, royal palms, thousands of singing frogs, and a flock of raucous parrots that used to land in a palm tree just off my patio. Visitors sometimes asked who the parrots belonged to. Easy answer: themselves. 

Farley the Cat lived there, too. He helped me discover one of the less-desirable features about the condo. There was a air-conditioner vent in the bathroom. Every now and then I would take the vent off to clean inside. One time Farley managed to jump from the bathroom sink and through the vent. Gone. I went into the attic and discovered that there were no building firewalls from one end of the building to the other. Duly noted. We moved on to other locations

Years later I read an article that the building that the building burned to the ground from one end to the other. 

A cautionary tale