Visiting Florida?
Here’s a list of posts I’ve written about theme parks, events, and places to visit while you are on vacation in Florida:
Jules Undersea Lodge, Key Largo
Rogers’ Christmas House, Brooksville
Discounts for Orlando Attractions and Hotels
Amelia Island Bed & Breakfast Specials
First Friday Artwalk in St. Augustine
Save Money on Your Orlando Vacation
Orlando Hotel Guide & City Guide
Uptown Saturday Night in St. Augustine
The Best Place to Buy Vera Bradley Purses in Florida
Save Money on Disney Souvenirs
Alternatives to Hotels for Orlando Vacations
The Pirate Dinner Show in Orlando
Scratch Ankle Festival, Milton, FL
Now, Every Day is Gay-Day at Disney World
How Santa and his helpers enjoy their downtime after Christmas
Looks like Santa treated his helpers to a little vacation time in Florida this year. Naturally, they chose Brooksville, FL, home of Roger’s Christmas House. This photo was taken across the street at the Hawkins House, where my mother has a small gift shop (called The Paper Porch) with an awesome selection of Vera Bradley handbags, jewelry, collectibles, and more.
Florida Memorabilia
Florida memorabilia and collectibles are hot right now.
Only in FLA: Just another night out with the boys
God, is it wrong that I love slapping together these “Only in FLA” stories?
Here’s a beauty that could have been any of a dozen guys I grew up with over in Brooksville. I’m not surprised it happened, I’m just surprised the guy lives in a city. When I saw his photo my heart leapt, because he bears a striking resemblance to someone I expect to hate for the rest of my life, but alas, it was not to be. A guy can still have dreams, can’t he?
Man arrested after chase swigs beer, flips off cops
Secure health insurance quotes
My father gave us a health scare this past summer. Or, to be more accurate, his doctors and hospital staff screwed up and gave us a scare. He wound up spending the better part of 6 weeks in the hospital. I blogged a bit about my frustrations with the situation back, in June, when I was commuting to Brooksville every weekend.
He retired last year, and took his COBRA benefits which were still in effect this summer. However, they expired last month, and he’s sitting here with a pre-existing condition and ineligible for Medicare until next March. He’s had a horrible time finding health insurance, and even the lousy policy he did find isn’t going to pay for the surgery he should be having in the next few months. Now, he has to wait until Medicare kicks in to do the follow-up surgery.
He’s hunted high and low with agents and over the internet. I’m sending him this health insurance site, so he can continue looking for a better, more affordable policy.
‘cueing with the bloggers
I made the trip down to Brooksville this weekend to see the family and eat red meat with bloggers. Colleen and her husband, Jim, served up some damn tender steak and tasty corn on the cob, complemented by the Fabs‘ potato salad and my contribution, Sonny’s baked beans, for which I broke into Sonny’s and slaved over for hours early in the morning.
Cheryl brought presents for Fab and me, and I have to admit, my heart skipped a beat when I saw the bag:
But when I saw what was inside the bag, I got REALLY excited!
Yeah, baby, the Cap’n is HOT! And the Pez is the BOMB! I’m gonna have some good eatin’ for for breakfast tomorrow.
I wanted to bring one of my daughter’s to meet Colleen’s kids and I’m sorry she backed out at the last minute because those are great kids, very well-behaved and remarkably insightful.
Of course the evening was topped off when our Florida Gators whupped the collective asses of the Tennessee Volunteers, 59-20. Those of you NOT from Florida probably can’t understand the pure satisfaction of being able to walk into a convenience store and greet a total stranger with "Go Gators" rather than the obligatory half-grin-and-nod-and-mumble.
See, Florida is the place to be: great friends, great food, and great football.
About
Florida Sun Dog is a Florida-centric blog. Rarely will I take time to comment on matters elsewhere. Subjects I discuss include funny news, commentary, theme parks, real estate, cities, towns, businesses, people. I also touch on Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa, Pensacola, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, Palm Beach, Ft. Myers, St. Petersburg, Daytona, Clearwater, Bradenton, Orange Park, St. Augustine, Amelia Island, Cocoa Beach, Disney World, Universal, Epcot, Sea World, Busch Gardens, Brooksville, Spring Hill, & Hernando County.
If you’d like to know more about me, this is everything Tim.
Trying to wrap my noggin around my schedule
Up and at ‘em pretty early this morning. The day job is cool about letting me come in early when I need to leave early. After all, whether I sit on my ass with nothing to do from 7 to 3:30 or 8 to 4:30 isn’t really a big deal. I’m taking the family to Brooksville to visit the parental units this weekend, and I hate driving with the kids in the dark. Nighttime driving is best done alone, in my opinion.
That way, no one can see what you’re up to. Ahem.
Other than that, I’m experimenting with some new tools and planning my move of this blog to Wordpress. Err, I may go a little slow on that. I moved a blog last weekend and managed to wipe out all my data. It was only through the creative use of blogging duct tape that I recovered as much as I did.
Anywayzzz, I hate giving previews of upcoming posts because then I feel accountable for them and all that, but I’m gonna do it and see if I can manage to follow through this time:
1. Book reviews of Randy Wayne White’s Doc Ford novels, set in Sanibel.
What you want more? Hey, there’s something like 14 of them, it’s going to take some time. Then, I might try Hiaasen. I like Hiaasen. Then Macomber’s historical fiction. And maybe Tim Dorsey’s Serge books. Not a big fan, but I’ll save the reason why until the review.
Oh, who am I kidding? Every book is the same – Serge gets pissed off about some perceived injustice, Coleman does a bunch of drugs, they kill the people Serge is pissed at in some creative and humorous manner, The End.
There, one last set of reviews to write.
Doing a favor, and an experiment
My mother owns a gift shop in Brooksville and I just want to help her search engine rankings with this post. She’s the only retailer authorized to sell Vera Bradley in Brooksville, and I believe one of two authorized to sell Vera Bradley in Hernando County. The name of the shop is The Paper Porch.
Feel free to give out some link love, maybe you’ll get some link karma! If not, build a bridge and move along… 
Note: This was NOT a sponsored post! Unless you count 9 months of uterus-living, 18 yrs of food and shelter, and a college education a prepayment on this post. 
City folk are so funny
It made the news in Miami when a cow got loose and started running through the streets. Some idiot security guard got in it’s way and it charged.
Duh.
Used to happen all the time in Brooksville. I lived in a neighborhood that bordered a large ranch just north of town, and a black bull would just show up in our front yard and start eating the grass.
Hey, I wasn’t complaining. Less grass to mow.
Eventually, the folks at the ranch would drop by and chase him back. No big deal. You don’t bother them, they don’t run terrified through the streets charging random folk.
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