daytona beach: Rare Birds Return To Put Breaks On Beach Driving In Daytona Again! - 07/22/08 11:18 AM
A year ago, August of 2007 I told you about how these 3 rare birds had captured the hearts of people around Daytona Beach and managed to block off the beach to cars in my post: Rare Birds Put The Breaks On Beach Driving In Daytona
That post remained on the … (8 comments)
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daytona beach: Baby, It's Cold Outside! Cold Enough For... - 01/03/08 08:56 AM
It's not that often we have a hard freeze here in the Daytona Beach area..
Maybe a couple times a year in the 5 years (almost to the day) I've lived here.
It's even less often one sees snow in the Daytona Beach area..
Yes, you read right
SNOW...
Here is my birdbath this … (24 comments)
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daytona beach: The 50th Gaslight Parade & Block Party In Ormond Beach (Edited) - 11/23/07 10:26 AM
This years parade will be honoring the Ford Model T owned by John White.
Mr. White brought this same car to the very first show 50 years ago and will be bringing it back this year!
The Gaslight Parade begins at 7:00PM and leaves from the Casements (former home of John Rockefeller) on Granada Blvd. travels … (12 comments)
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daytona beach: The Classics Are Back In Town! - 11/21/07 10:45 AM
Yesterday I told you about our Annual Turkey Run, it is actually our 34th Annual Turkey Run. This event is so popular that people come in from around the world to see the cars that come to Daytona Beach during Thanksgiving Weekend.
If you don't want to go to the speedway … (9 comments)
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daytona beach: I Don't Like Spiders And Snakes... - 09/14/07 11:28 AM
Well...
I just don't like spiders, snakes aren't all that bad...
Only 6 out of our 44 Florida snakes are venomous! These snakes are the eastern coral, the southern copperhead, the cottonmouth, and 3 species of rattlesnake; eastern diamondback, timber and the dusky pygmy rattler.
If you see one of these … (36 comments)
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daytona beach: Bikers Descend Onto Pelican Bay - 09/13/07 10:42 AM
On Saturday, September 8th the residents of Pelican Bay, a gated "golf community" here in Daytona had their quiet lifestyle interrupted for a couple hours by the thunder of around 50 bikers and their machines.
They were riding up and down Pelican … (12 comments)
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daytona beach: Century 21 House Of Realty Goes Above And Beyond... - 08/22/07 12:10 PM
To help someone all alone in a strange town and a strange situation.
I wrote about this orginally in my post Working Across The Miles To Help One In Need.
Our (Century 21 Sundance) customer Miss E. was traveling alone from Missouri to Florida to move into her newly purchased home and … (14 comments)
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daytona beach: Rare Birds Put The Breaks On Beach Driving In Daytona - 08/15/07 10:41 AM
A big tourist draw for Daytona Beach is the fact that people can drive their cars on the beach, just park right where they want to & hang out for the day.
You don't have to fight for parking in a parking lot then lug your cooler, blankets, chairs and surfboards … (30 comments)
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daytona beach: My 4th Of July Forida Burn Ban & Wildfire Updates & Safety Tips - 06/30/07 01:09 PM
Where has the year gone?
It seems like Christmas was just last month and now here we are, its almost the Fourth Of July!
I know it seems like the state of Florida has seen a lot of rain during the month of June. The sad fact remains that we are still very dry folks. We need … (12 comments)
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daytona beach: Mickey Jones Bikes And Blues Committee For St. Jude Writes The Offical Check! - 06/10/07 08:11 AM
Did you think we were on vacation from our St. Jude Fund Raising? Nope! We've already begun meetings for next years events! We need more sponsors and more ideas. We won't get that by taking time off.
We did run into a snag with one vendor and had to wait to get … (13 comments)
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daytona beach: Egyptian Geese In Daytona Beach? - 06/09/07 08:36 AM
I went out to feed the Pelican Bay critters when I arrived at work on Wednesday and was greeted by an old friend, the Great Blue Heron.
She looked a bit frazzled and hungry. She nailed two fish rather quickly, but my camera was in the office.
I looked … (39 comments)
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daytona beach: The Baby's Have Hatched! - 06/05/07 08:16 PM
On Saturday Cyndee Haydon posted In Clearwater, Florida ~ Who left that Fowl Trail? then I followed her lead with My Photos Of Some Florida Birds, I showed you a photo of a Brown Thrasher nesting. Monday morning I arrived at work to find a young man cutting the hedges, right where the nest was. My … (25 comments)
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daytona beach: My Photos Of Some Florida Birds - 06/02/07 11:28 AM
Cyndee Haydon just wrote a great post Who left that Fowl Trail? about our wonderful "Birding Trails" here in Florida. I thought I would follow up on her blog with some photo's I've taken of some of the beautiful birds that you might see when you come to Florida.
Our Century … (38 comments)
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daytona beach: Florida Wildfires 2007 Update May 20th, 2007 - 05/20/07 09:11 AM
I finally have some good news regarding the major Florida Wildfires I've told you about previously!
Let start with updates:
The Bugaboo Fire is 80% contained! It is still burning, but it is burning inside of itself and has not jumped the containment lines. The people who have been evacuated are … (20 comments)
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daytona beach: Smoke From A Not So Distant Fire 5/11/2007 Florida Fires 2007 - 05/11/07 03:32 PM
The smoke isn't so bad here in Daytona Beach today. We have what's left of Sub Tropical Storm Andrea of our coast that blew the smoke somewhere else and I thought our Airport Road Fire was out.
NOT SO.
I just finished reading the Daytona News Journal and not … (10 comments)
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daytona beach: Smoke From Distant Fires - 05/09/07 02:25 PM
If you read my post Smoke From A Not So Distant Fire post this week you know all about our (Volusia and Flagler Counties) now named "Airport Fire". I updated that post last night with the following:
OUR AIRPORT ROAD FIRE IS ONLY SMOKING AS OF TODAY 5/8 DESPITE OUR HIGH WINDS. … (20 comments)
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daytona beach: Smoke From A Not So Distant Fire Updated 5/8 - 05/07/07 11:52 PM
Fourteen miles from the Century 21 Sundance Pelican Bay office and twelve miles from where Steve and I live there is a wildfire burning on the border of the Volusia and Flagler County lines.
(Graphic courtesy of the Daytona News Journal)
The smoke from the fire can cover our county depending on … (57 comments)
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daytona beach: Photos from The Mickey Jones Golf Classic for St Jude - 04/29/07 08:04 AM
I didn't forget! Really! Just so much going on since our events that I've only had time to post a few things. TodayI'm going to pick up all the photo cds to look through them and see the shots our volunteer photographers took, then shoot the cd's up to our St. … (6 comments)
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daytona beach: Bikes & Blues With Mickey Jones, The Bike Run for St Jude Hospital Part 2 - 04/24/07 11:10 AM
Ok, I know you've been waiting for part 2 for days now. I'm sorry it took me this long to get it out to you but I had out of town guests this weekend! No, really, I did!
Here is the link to Part 1 Bikes & Blues With Mickey Jones, … (18 comments)
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daytona beach: Bikes & Blues With Mickey Jones, The Bike Run for St Jude Hospital - 04/20/07 01:57 PM
You've waited a long time for this one haven't you? You want to know how many bikes were on the ride, how much money did we raise, how did everything go?
It was a beautiful day, no threat of rain, nice and warm, perfect for our Bike Parade. I took … (13 comments)
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