As any long time reader of my blog knows, I am a big Cleveland Browns fan. Yes, they suck but being a fan means you root for your team through thick and thin. But yesterday’s game was hard to take. The Browns had the game in control right up into the fourth quarter. Then it all fell apart and they lost in overtime. They have still not won a game this year but they should have beat the Packers yesterday. They need to learn how to win I guess.
On a brighter note my hockey team, the Tampa Bay Lightning is the best team in the NHL right now. They are playing awesome. So I have that going me! LOL
Mother nature decided to send Destin some winter weather this past week. A lot of areas in the south got snow but it stayed warm enough in Destin that we only got rain. We did have temps in the 30’s and 40’s though. That is way too cold me! My blood is thin and ”75 is pretty chilly to me.” (Thanks to a Jim Morris song for that line.) The Sun came back out on Saturday and it is warming back up into the 60’s today.
Friday night the Parrot Heads had our monthly meeting at Landshark Pizza. It was our Christmas party and also election of the new board of directors. We had BT playing for us and a big crowd of about 125 folks showed up. I will be Secretary again in 2018 and Sunshine Cindy was voted onto the board as a Member at Large. Our club has donated over $18,000 to local charities this year. We really do “Party with a Purpose!”
Saturday was the Destin Christmas parade. I planned to walk in the parade with Chaos but I had to go into work so we had to miss it. It was really cold so I am half glad I had to go to work. Sunshine Cindy and I did go to O’Quigley’s for dinner and to watch the second half of the Army / Navy game. I know our future is in good hands with these fine young men and women of the academy’s coming up through the ranks.
And of course on Sunday I went to Landshark to watch the Browns game with Bobby. We had good natured banter back and forth with Sue as she was trying to get her Packers to play better. I guess it worked!
After the game we had a Parrot Head board meeting. Most of the board members were going to watch the lighted boat parade in the harbor later in the evening so it made sense to have our board meeting before that. We will have a fun board next year and hope to surpass our donation total from 2017.
Around town an empty lot has been cleared next to ABC Liquor in front of Home Depot. I have not heard what is going in there. It looks like construction will be starting soon as the site work is almost done. It has the look of a fast food location but we shall see what actually happens.
Our friends with Lucky’s Rotten Apple in Destin have taken over the Tipsy Pig location in downtown Fort Walton Beach and made it into Lucky’s Ft. Walton. It looks like they are going to make it into a late night party spot with DJ’s and drink specials. Since The Swamp and Nightown closed down a void has existed for that type of club. Good luck on the venture.
One thing you hear a lot about now is so called “Fake news.” It wasn’t too long ago we just called this stuff lies! I saw a report a while back showing teenagers in Eastern Europe just pumping this stuff out to drive traffic to their web sites and they are making a lot of money doing it. In Destin someone started a Facebook page called, “City of Destin News.” This is a good old fashion satirical page that pokes fun at a lot of things in Destin and surrounding area. Nobody seems to know who is behind this page but whoever it is does a great job with it. You can call it fake news if you like but this is not for monetary gain and instead is just satire. Check it out if you get a chance.
It is only two weeks till Christmas. Try to buy American Made if possible. There are some good web sites that only sell American Made items. Buying American Made is good for the economy and it really will make America great again!
Have a great week. See ya next Monday!
Destin Steve
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