Something About Nothing ... #12

[macraven]

Sign me up for that pill !

 

[macraven]

where is tinyD today?
riding up and down I 75?

 

[tinydancer09]

where is tinyD today?
riding up and down I 75?

Just got here. And by here I mean I just started humaning today. Stayed away from work and Internet and watched Netflix all morning. Was getting pretty frustrated so I needed some down time.

I replied to a question from you yesterday and I never got an answer to my question... And now I'm curious. You said at what point does it improve for the rentals and I'm still curious as to what you mean? I figured you were just caught up in love yesterday and skipped over it

 

[macraven]

either that or the knobb creek.......

you talked about the bill passing in your area for the clean up of the erosion of the beach and the dredging process.


so i asked at what point will that make the rentals increase for an improved setting.

would hate to think that you will lose your regulars and new renters in the vacation homes due to the beach being washed away.

 

[macraven]

let me back track...
there were some posting of you and buckeev talking about the troubles from mother nature and the destruction of beach land.
i know he is texas and you are florida but i was reading of how beach front and property was destroyed, damaged by things in the past.
proposals were talked about how it will all be fixed and restored back to a safer environment and properites improved.

 

[schumigirl]

Friday night...........yay.........

Having white tonight........2 bottles chilling right now.......well, brought them in from garage wine chiller......lol.....

Still cold........but lovely in the house........planning a nice cosy evening with my Mr

Hope Janet got away ok for her trip today.........

 

[Lynne G]

No, Mac, not Silas, but a cute name, but not from my family that I can remember.

Just too gray and cool today.

Oh, and thanks Mac for the October thread, seems like some overlaps already. Will be nice to say hello in person again.

Fair sailing for Janet and gang. Hope the plane took off, unlike our airport earlier today. All freeze for hours due to emergency landing of 2 planes.

Enjoy your wine tonight Schumi. Sounds like a easy Friday night.

Later, kids are coming home from school.

 

[pcstang]

let me back track...
there were some posting of you and buckeev talking about the troubles from mother nature and the destruction of beach land.
i know he is texas and you are florida but i was reading of how beach front and property was destroyed, damaged by things in the past.
proposals were talked about how it will all be fixed and restored back to a safer environment and properites improved.

Happy anniversary! Sorry I'm late to the party...
The dredging and rebuilding of the beaches along the gulf coast seemed to be an almost yearly event during the mid 2000's with all the Hurricanes. Sounds like San Blas didn't partake is just now going to do it.

 

[tinydancer09]

either that or the knobb creek.......

you talked about the bill passing in your area for the clean up of the erosion of the beach and the dredging process.

so i asked at what point will that make the rentals increase for an improved setting.

would hate to think that you will lose your regulars and new renters in the vacation homes due to the beach being washed away.

let me back track...
there were some posting of you and buckeev talking about the troubles from mother nature and the destruction of beach land.
i know he is texas and you are florida but i was reading of how beach front and property was destroyed, damaged by things in the past.
proposals were talked about how it will all be fixed and restored back to a safer environment and properites improved.

Gotcha I just wasn't following. It's been a crazy week... or spring. It's been a crazy year... Anyways....
Thankfully no homes are in jeopardy yet. The pictures I shared the other day were from back in 2004 or 2005 I believe. We do not have any scenes like that right now. Scallop season was just decided to be closed due to the red tide last year which prevented spawning and the replenishing of the scallops. Season usually opens up around July 4th, but it will not open for 2016. The beach restoration is a preventative and on-going process that has to be done so that no houses will become endangered like they were back int he early 2000s. The beach restoration funding was just passed a few weeks ago. It's said that dredging will start hopefully within 12-18 months and be completed hopefully before the 2018 hurricane season.

Thankfully anyone who is loyal to our beaches knows then long history Cape San Blas has had with erosion and if they are truly loyal it will not change their love of our area. I don't see it having a high impact on our future. Now, people will not be happy about the scallops not being able to be harvest this year, but they will get over it. I don't see the scalloping having any high impact on bookings (as most of my houses are already booked up for scallop season.) What it will impact is the number of people traveling down here for day trips and the tax revenue that comes in from that... as well as the extra spending people on day trips do because they typically fill up our restaurants.

Now... next year is going to be touch and go while the dredging is happening. People are probably going to book later and price increases may not be able to be accomplished... They will want to know where the dredging is going to be taking place and when so they're probably not going to want to book very far out like we typically do. With the dredging comes trucks and construction sounds on the beach from beeping machinery which is rather annoying... but it has to be done or else Cape San Blas will cease to exist. We'll get through it though. We've done it before and we'll do it again. People will come back if they do leave us. Our tax revenue dollars were up over 30% last summer season. I don't believe we're in jeopardy of being forgotten again.

I could be completely wrong to be optimistic, but I choose not to be completely distracted and stressed about something I cannot predict nor control. If we have a bad hurricane season this year this will be a totally different story... If we have one next year while the dredging is happening it will also be a very terrible story. We WILL lose houses and have to work on not only restoring but rebuilding if that happens. However, as of right now we're just in need of restoration not rebuilding. Does that make sense? I feel they're synonyms, but in my mind it makes sense.

 

[macraven]

Yes it makes sense
Ty both

 

[tinydancer09]

Happy anniversary! Sorry I'm late to the party...
The dredging and rebuilding of the beaches along the gulf coast seemed to be an almost yearly event during the mid 2000's with all the Hurricanes. Sounds like San Blas didn't partake is just now going to do it.

We had one in 2009 after we lost a lot of houses. That's the only one we've ever had. Our beaches used to be VERY wide and we have pretty impressive dunes. After the one after another hits in the early 2000s we finally started being hurt.... You'd sad this so much better and without near as many words as me. As you guys know I'm a little long winded...

 

[macraven]

But we love our tinyD just the way she is

 

[pcstang]

We had one in 2009 after we lost a lot of houses. That's the only one we've ever had. Our beaches used to be VERY wide and we have pretty impressive dunes. After the one after another hits in the early 2000s we finally started being hurt.... You'd sad this so much better and without near as many words as me. As you guys know I'm a little long winded...

It sucks it has to be done. Really takes away from the powder white sands appearance for a while.

 

[tinydancer09]

It sucks it has to be done. Really takes away from the powder white sands appearance for a while.

Yeah I wasn't happy at first. It sent all the broken shells up to the sand and I wasn't very happy about it. The sand was the same though... at least ours was. Just more shells. I would say it was a tiny bit darker? but it bleached out pretty quickly. I would say thats just from it being waterlogged for so long.

 

[tinydancer09]

Anyone doing anything exciting this weekend? I'm going out to my favorite pizza place and then to see the huntsman tonight. I hear it's great... not sure I'll follow much other than Hemsworth's face. Tomorrow I have a community dinner to attend. The even numbers are supposed to bring a vegetable and the odds are supposed to bring a meat or entree. Everyone's welcome to bring a dessert. We're even but we don't eat veggies so we're doing a huge thing of baked beans and cupcakes.

 

[schumigirl]

Is everyone getting lots of surveys from Universal this last week??

Just tried to watch the Exorcist again tonight in anticipation of HHN ..........see if it was any better than the first time.........nah.......still a big disappointment........just not scary.

Second glass of wine being poured as I type...........

 

[macraven]

Anyone doing anything exciting this weekend? I'm going out to my favorite pizza place and then to see the huntsman tonight. I hear it's great... not sure I'll follow much other than Hemsworth's face. Tomorrow I have a community dinner to attend. The even numbers are supposed to bring a vegetable and the odds are supposed to bring a meat or entree. Everyone's welcome to bring a dessert. We're even but we don't eat veggies so we're doing a huge thing of baked beans and cupcakes.

my days all blend together.
When twd was on tv, my week was planned around that.
pathetical, eh.......
there are some weeks where every day seems like a Monday from back in the days I worked full time.

i have no set schedule since we moved.
good thing our trash day is the same as our other place where we lived or it might not get out to the street for the correct day....


tinyD, have a great weekend
if you make those great cupcakes for the community dinner, they'll all be gone in a flash!

when i used to do potlucks/community dinners, i always started with the dessert table and worked backwards.

 

[tink1957]

Carole....I only received one survey this week.

I'm on my diet again so drink a glass for me ...I know it will be hard but I'm sure you'll manage

We also had a catered cookout at work today...I cheated and ate steak...hard to turn down free food. I did pass on the baked potatoes and desserts

 

[macraven]

Oh, and thanks Mac for the October thread, seems like some overlaps already. Will be nice to say hello in person again.

Fair sailing for Janet and gang. Hope the plane took off, unlike our airport earlier today. All freeze for hours due to emergency landing of 2 planes.

yes janet is probably sitting somwhere warm now and drinking something that has a little umbrella in it.......

yes, wanted to get the meet/greet thread up for this fall as i think hhn prices will be released in May.
going to keep the two threads separate and both a temporary sticky for the duration of HHN.
will unsticky both threads on November 1st.

plan to make it in a date order starting with first date of a person's stay.
homies can talk to each other in the thread or pm for personal info in order to meet up.

if you have suggestions just let me know.

 

[schumigirl]

Carole....I only received one survey this week.

I'm on my diet again so drink a glass for me ...I know it will be hard but I'm sure you'll manage

Lol........I'll force myself Vicki..........

Wine was nice.......had some real Greek olives in oil not brine....yuk, prosciutto, spicy chorizo and some nice Camembert.........

Diet is a real 4 lettered word tonight...........but worth it.........

Good luck with the diet.......not easy........