Peanuts - Boiled That Is!

If you are out and about this weekend and happen to be on State Road 44 near Samsula Road, stop in and have some boiled peanuts. Super nice people, they have been in that same spot every weekend for 11 years! They also have fresh squeezed lemonade, pulled pork, sausage and peppers and of course hot dogs. Good stuff, cheap. We stop there just about every Sunday. Love them!


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Test Drive = Money For School

Take a few minutes tomorrow and help out New Smyrna Beach High School. Mullinax Ford is again holding Drive One 4 UR School. This Ford, Lincoln Mercury event donates $20.00 for each car test driven, you can even specify what group, team or program you want your test drive to go to.

This is being held tomorrow at the High School Parking lot from 9am-4pm. There will also be a car wash, food and drinks available and you can get your blood pressure checked while you are there. Last year 365 people test drive cars....let's get 400 this year. That would be $8,000 for the school for doing virtually nothing. Can't beat that!!


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Poker Run

This sweet little boy Isaiah is in the hospital as a result of a beating by an adult. If you have heard the story on the news or read it in the paper it is very disturbing and sad. Friends of the family are holding a Poker Run and Benefit Party on Sunday, April 15th. The Poker run will start at The Cabbage Patch in Samsula. Bikes will start leaving at 10:00 am. They will hit a bunch of places and end up at JJ Fins in New Smyrna Beach. JJ Fins is hosting a Benefit for Isaiah starting at 1:00 pm. There will be live music, raffles, and a buffet starting at 4:00 pm.

If you are able please show this family your support and plan to attend. You can also donate at any Wells Fargo Bank to the Isaiah Mitchell Donation Foundation or call Peggy Hayman at 386-690-8100 for more information. They have a Facebook Page set up for updates.

Miss New Smyrna Beach

Miss New Smyrna Beach 1955

Come on out to the New Smyrna Beach High School tomorrow night at 7pm for the Miss New Smyrna Beach Contest. I love the old photo above from 1955. Pretty sure the 2012 winners will look quite different. The winner receives a scholarship! The event should run about 2 hours and will be held in the auditorium.

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Book Club May Leave the Planet!

Our little book club has been meeting at Big Planet Pizza for quite a while. It is usually fairly uneventful, we are normally in a good mood. Six women out of the house, wine, pizza, books...it is all good. If you sit at the bar service is great...the last few times the table service has not been so fabulous...read on...

Not such a good time tonight at the Big Planet....service was kind of crappy. Our server was not real responsive...made comments like "he screwed up your other pizza but said go ahead and give you this one."  Love that....even better she never cleared a glass or dish, we did it ourselves....but the icing on the cake was the pizzas coming out with no way to serve it...you know the little pizza servers...spatula thingys(that is not the technical name) so I asked, can we have a server thingy?...."we don't have those here" ......but you always have those, I said...insert her making a face...."well we have never had them since I have worked here but I will go ask" ......meanwhile handing the large wooden thing holding the pizza to us to find a spot on the table.

There is more but I will stop there in the interest of my sanity....I support and recommend our local business....until I can't. There are plenty of places to eat pizza, drink wine and chat....any one have a suggestion for our new meeting place?