It is nice to have a big pool!

 
 

Back in Kennesaw for a bit-!

The time in Panama City Florida is:


I got back to Kennesaw on Friday June 15th. I don't know how long I will remain before going back to the Florida condo. Might stay until Nov. or go back in a week.

The lawn service was by today (Sat), said 'lawn service' consists of a nice old guy who speaks no English and his wife and daughter. The girl is the only English speaker, glad she showed up today as I wanted to get them paid for July ($160 cash) just in case I go sooner than I think I will.



















Top photo is Kennesaw, below is the living room/dining room. I have a decent new desk, initially I was going to get a more expensive roll top desk but the measurements just didn't seem to work out as there is a thermostat on the wall under the photo and all the roll top desks were higher than that, so no luck, but the desk I did get is pretty decent for about $260 or whatever I paid for it.

I will miss having a nice pool to lay around in, that is a big plus for the Florida condo, it is suppose to be heated during the winter. Just the last week I was there they decided to paint unit numbers on the parking spaces - stupid idea. I have a space further away from my unit than I like. When I get back I will see what I can do about getting it changed.

Does Anyone Know What Time It Is???

Central Time Zone

May 2007 - New Condo in Florida

Here are a few photos of the condo which I purchased in Panama City Beach, Florida in April 2007
















Shown are the living room & kitchen.

Bedroom and master bath.

Photos of the new condo in Florida.

This is part of the outside of the condo. I have an additional window on each side, what is visible here are the 2 windows for the living room and the single window for the 'bedroom office'. The windows are a bit darker than the ones above me as mine are tinted and I now have the better horozontal wood blinds rather than the cheaper plastic vertical blinds.

Vacation Time Is Almost Up!

Counting down to going back to Kennesaw, a month and a week is left on my 7 month Florida condo rental.

This particular condo is now up for sale. It was put on the market about a month ago at $150,000. Spoke to the realtor and he was here to take photos to put online. In this complex there are at least 20 for sale out of about 160 units.

I did look into the possible purchase both of this (owner paid $123,000 2 yrs ago for it) and also at a new 2/2 condo at $150k at Nautilus Cove in Panama City Beach. Unfortunately the math just won't work on the Landmark condo and the Nautilus one is under consideration for now. I might consider a loan against the equity (100% paid for) of the Kennesaw home to pay for a P.C. area condo. Remains to be seen what/if anything I will end up doing.

Top photo is the new construction just outside our Kennesaw subdivision.


Bottom photo is the house across the street which has new owners now moving in.

A Quick Trip Home to Kennesaw

Just before Xmas I took a brief 4 day trip back to Kennesaw to see if the house had burned down in my absence. Fortunately it had not, so I raked some leaves and checked the mail at the drop and drove back the 300+ miles to my rented Condo here in Panama City.

A Visit to our Local Park on St Andrews Bay, right in old town PC

Pacific Coast Time:

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Me at a park next to St. Andrews Bay, Panama City, Florida. This is in 'old town' PC on Route 98 Business, near my rented condo which overlooks 98 instead of the nicer view of the Bay which is available on the other side of the complex. Weather here is 10+ degrees better than that in Kennesaw, Ga. I plan a trip back there for Xmas day on the theory that there will be almost no traffic that day.
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A Visit to my Old College

FYI Pacific Time Is Now:


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December 7, 2006 - Marianna, Fla - The Old Chipola Hotel

A bit about the Chipola Hotel from a historical tract I found online:
"The early 1920’s were a period of poor farm prices and economic depression. J.C. Corcoran had married a Greenwood woman back in 1908 and he decided to invest in Jackson County. He founded the Marianna Lime Products Company, the five-story, 75-room Chipola Hotel (completed in 1926), Chipola Dairy Farm, the Florida Publishing Company, and the Marianna Fruit Company."

I took a trip today, Dec. 7th (65 th annaversary of Pearl Harbor) to my first college. This was then Chipola Junior College, a 2 year school, just a few years ago it changed to a 4 year school and is now called just Chipola College. I was there from Sept 64 to May 1965 (Freshman year). The mens dorm was not ready on my arrival so I stayed here in Rm 502 of the Chipola Hotel in downtown Marianna for about 2 months until I could move into the newly constructed dorm.

The construction on the dorm was done by State inmates in a work gang. The College is located one county away (Jackson County) and is 60 miles or 1 hr 10 minutes each way. The old hotel is now used as a senior residence facility and rooms are rented out to seniors 62 or over. Soon I will qualify to live there again!



















This is the renovated dorm, my room was at the extreme right behind the white auto. Then the right side was 'boys' and the left was 'girls', now it is all male and for the various athletes. About 2-3 yrs ago I was on campus and took a tour of the place, it was then pretty dark and dingy, didn't visit it this time around.

I spent about 1 1/2 hrs in the library looking at the 65 yearbook and copies of the college paper 'The Papoose' for the months I was there. I was informed by an elderly woman librarian that there were others who went there with my name and sure enough I did find 2 H's, both from similar addresses in Fla., probably a father/son, but of course no relation to me. No middle names listed but they wouldn't have matched anyway.



















The cafeteria food is much better these days and quite inexpensive. I got a grilled chicken sandwich, fries, coke and strawberry shortcake dessert for under $5!

The only person from Chipola that I have come across is a Leland Upshaw who was a few years ago living in Plantation, Fla. I found him online and talked to him for an hour or so. He wasn't a particular pal, just someone in the dorm across the hall. He also attended FAU a few years after I was there. He went from CJC to the army then on to FAU.




Chipola Library

My 2002 Ford Explorer is just to the left of the stop sign.

Wintering in a Florida Condo this season:

Spending the winter 06/07 in a rented Florida condo in Panama City, here is what it looks like. Cost is $795 per month. I will go back now and then to Georgia, it is 340 miles each way, just a 5+ hr trip.
The realtor who I paid in cash was in the paper yesterday, she was arrested for stealing $ 35,000 from her company. She kept various cash payments for rentals over a six month period.
I brought some of my own things, but it is a furnished rental. In the below photo both the TV and DVD/VCR player are imported from Kennesaw.
There are 2 pools, but neither is heated.

"Home" as seen from space!

I Spent a whole day changing over Email accounts from ISP to ISP and I also discovered that Google has an interesting program that lets you use a satellite to look at anywhere on earth. I zeroed in on my house and printed out an 8 x 10" photo which I framed and put on the wall. The above is an example of what you can easily download and print out.

Remember:
Double click left mouse button to enlarge any photo.

"Home Office"

 

Wed. January 25, 2006 - Georgia

It is a 2 car garage, but with all the
lawn stuff and misc. junk in there
it is a good thing that I have only
the one car! The weather this month
has been all over the place, freezing
one week and like summer the next.

January 2002

This is the backyard of the house I
purchased the next month. You can
see from other photos on the blog
what it looks like now. The person
shown in this photo is the real
estate agent.

Quite an improvement over 4 years!
I now have 480 plants/trees up from
the 7 when the house was purchased. 

This is 2 years old

There have been some changes made
on the patio and with the plants but
I am hard pressed to find any decent
photos of me to post, this one at least
shows my favorite activity = doing
nothing. Q. When you do nothing all
day - how do you know when you are
finished? 

If you thought 2 years was 'out of date' - try this one!

This is an undated photo of
me, at probably 2-3 yrs old,
taken in front of my grand-
parents house at 7234
Layfette Ave in Chicago,
Illinois.

WARNING! A double left click of the mouse will fill your screen with a huge photo of: ME

Taken Dec 05 by my web camera, just
me sitting in my 2nd bedroom 'office'
at home.

Winter Sucks!

Everything is dull and gray and the
heating bills are over $300 a month.
Every year I tell myself I should take
a vacation to somewhere warm, but
so far I haven't done it.

Fall - going into Winter.

Getting close to winter but
still some green in the grass.

Here is a big picture of ME!

Taken in the kitchen.

I am just starting this blog-

On Nov 27, 2005, I registered here and I am still looking at how to proceed.

I have put in a selection of photos, some of myself and some of the house.

Unfortunately there isn't anything of great interest.

I have no idea what use I will make of this 'blog', perhaps none at all, but it never hurts to learn new things.

Did I mention the lot was carved out of a hill?

The last 20 ft. of the lot is a steep
incline, so my backyard is really just
a largish green patio that needs to
be mowed! The drop from the
white mini fence in the middle to
the flat ground is about 3 1/2 feet.