Panama City Florida

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This is a photo looking North down Route 98 Business, in the heart of the 'old town' section of PC. It runs right past my window a bit down the road. Behind me is the bay and to my left is a fancy new condo complex and the dock area with various charter fishing boats and a nice Bay view.


This is just me, I stopped by a local park which is right on St. Andrews Bay next to the 'old town' section of Panama City and just 2 1/2 miles from my rented condo.

Below is me in the park next to 98 and the old town dock area.
The Pacific Coast Time Is:

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Renting a condo in Fla. for 7 months.

I finally got tired of the Georgia winters, so this year I decided to be a 'snow bird' and winter in Florida this year at a condo in Panama City. I am just one county away from Chipola College where I went to school my freshman year (1964-5). I have both a mug and sweatshirt from there that I got on a prior visit to the campus.
I rented it furnished but of course brought down some of my own minor items. The rent is $795 a month for 7 months. Paid the security and first month in cash to the realtor. In yesterdays paper I saw that she had been arrested for stealing $35,000 in cash from her realty company over the last 6 months! Fortunately I got a receipt for my cash payment so I should be OK.
The complex was built in 1969 and has about 200 units, it was initially a rental complex but changed to condos about 2 years ago. My unit is only a 1 bedroom 1 bath which sort of explains the lower price. There are 2 pools on the property, this is right next door to my building, but it isn't heated so not usable for about 3/4's of the time I will be here.
There is a king size bed and while there were 2 TV's supplied I brought my own (in photo) and my own DVD/VCR player from Georgia. While the complex is right on St. Andrews Bay, my unit is on the opposite end and just has a view of the parking lot and street. I am about 340 miles from 'home' in Kennesaw, have been back there once and will of course go back several times over the 7 months of the rental.

Some photos from today (Sept 10, 2006) of the house. Just had the grass cut and the flowers in the planters are doing well.


 

August 2006 Photos From Around The House

Here are a couple of photos from around the house. The above shows my efforts to dress up the place with some flowers in the front.
The yard has been a bit of a problem this year with so many days in the 90's and only a bit of rain. The north side strip of lawn is kaput and I will be putting down 400 lbs. of dirt and grass seed this Labor Day 'weekend' to get things back to normal.

The garage always looks like Fred Sandford's Junk Yard, good thing I just have the one Ford Explorer to park there, a second vehicle wouldn't fit! 

New Construction Near Our Subdivision

About 2 yrs ago the zoning for the property between our subdivision and the main road was changed to commercial and now the trees have been taken down for a strip mall to be put in on that property. The owners who abut that developing property are of course unhappy and were up in arms two years ago when the change was proposed. It does not bother me at all as I am on the opposite side of the 54 home subdivision, I just hope that they put in a good sit down restaurant!

 

Came across these so I will post them here.

Just tossed in a couple of extra photos of me around the house. Nothing special about them. I have a lawn service for the grass at $35 a cut and a cleaning service which comes in for 2 hrs work every four weeks for $105. Might as well spend a few bucks, can't take it with me, or so I am told.

Obviously the top one is me in the kitchen and the bottom is me on the North side of my backyard.
 

Cannon & rifle fire in Kennesaw Today!

Although this picture is from my files, the scene is the same in downtown Kennesaw today as this weekend they are 'reenacting' the battle of Kennesaw Mountain. From my residence I clearly hear the boom of the cannons and rifle fire. I am sure that it sounds just like it did 143 years ago.

I wasn't going to put up any flag today as the day started out dreary and overcase after 3 days of thunder storms, but around 1:30 I heard the cannons and decided to put up the Confederate Naval Ensign for the rest of the day and for tomorrow.

I'm not dead yet and already I'm on a Stamp!

 

Rain! Did somebody say it was going to rain?

A "Rainy Day in Georgia", maybe
someone should do a song about it? 

Bedroom at home