Lysa's Central Florida Happenings

Attention all Volusia County Residents! Please attend the County Budge Hearing tonight, September 6, at the Volusia Administration Building in Deland. (123 W. Indiana Ave) They are asking for as many people as possible to come to help stop, or rather protest the "increase in taxes". Apparently la...

Yesterday I posted My Memories From 2001 and told you it would be continued...Here are my memories of the Memorial in 2002 at Ground Zero. July of 2002, I called my mom and begged her to come to Upstate NY. I told her I wanted to spend my birthday at Ground Zero at the 9/11 Memorial. She could fl...

  Even though it happened six years ago, we all remember what we were doing at 8:50 that morning. Up until 9/11/2001 I always looked forward to this day....  At the time I was living in Gallway NY and working for Reserve America at the National Recreation & Reservation Services call center. The c...

 SEPTEMBER 11TH, WE WILL NEVER FORGET! On September 9th, 2007 the Palm Coast Chapter of the Red Knights Motorcycle Club is hosting a FREE Memorial Run to remember those who sacraficed their lives along with those who to this day keep us safe. The ride begins at Hero's Memorial Park on Palm Coast ...

Hopefully the Lunsford family can sleep a little easier tonight.The judge just gave John Couey, the man that buried little Jessica Lunsford alive the death penalty. I wonder, how long will he sit on Death Row. How long does it take the state of Florida to put a sentenced person to death? Why do m...

Florida has 4 separate categories for license plates when you go to their Speciality Plates web page.  The catagories and total plates are: ENVIRONMENTAL ~ 18 MISCELLANEOUS ~ 40 PROFESSIONAL SPORTS ~ 9 UNIVERSITIES ~ 36 Including our standard Florida State license plate seen above this brings us ...

 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 along the w...

    This is an AMERICAN ANHINGA OR SNAKE-BIRD.   She has been living (or lived) in a tree by my Century 21 Sundance office for at least the last year, hunting for her daily meals in the pond/canal. She is different from any other water foul I've ever witnessed swim before.       You see, she swim...

 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 or other toys from the parking lo...

 I received a call today from a Century 21 office in Illinois, the name of the brokerage is Century 21 House Of Realty, the caller, Denise.Denise asked me to bear with her and her strange tale, but she had a call from a lady in a near by hospital and was trying to assist her in her quest. Apparen...