Friday, November 30, 2007

Creeks Soccer Registration

Directly from the Creeks website...

Registrations will be taken from October 15th until December 14th. After December 14th a late fee of $25.00 will be imposed until January 6th at which time registration for the spring season will be closed. Historically CAA Creeks soccer registration "sells out" and waiting lists are formed, so don't delay your child's sign up.

http://caasoccer.org/

This is a great soccer league for the kids. We've been doing it for a couple of years now and it has been a wonderful experience for them and the parents. Fun is the focus of the league.

Thursday, November 29, 2007

BLOGLINES

Ever find a good website that you need to check back on from time to time. Perhaps like this website? Well a great tool for collecting information into a single place exists. Bloglines does a really good job of collecting feeds from many different websites. You can customize your feeds however you want. All of the different websites that you visit are accumulated in a simple easy to read format. Now you don't have to click on all different websites to see if there are any updates. If there are new posts, the posts will show up on your custom page and it will indicate that there are new posts.

I've been using Bloglines for some time and have been quite pleased. You can find my site listed under Bloglines too. Just search for the feed and you can have my site and others at your fingertips. As I don't post that often, you will immediately see when I have posted a new update without having to come to my site all the time to see if there are any updates.

Give it a try. Best part, it is free.

http://www.bloglines.com

http://stjohnsfl.blogspot.com/

JOHNS CREEK PROFESSIONAL CENTER

You may have noticed some new construction going on near Hurricane Wings. This is going to be a new office building. Per the building permits, it will be called "JOHNS CREEK PROFESSIONAL CENTER". It is expected to be a medical facility with about 10,000 SQ FT of space.

No word on who may move into the building at this point. Probably way too early for that.

Hurricane Wings

I know I've my comments several times about them, but I just can't get enough of these wings. I love most of the sauces that they have. I've even tried the different category 5 wings - HOT!!!

One of my favorite items is the Shanghai salad with shrimp. I'm not a big salad person, but I really like this one. It has a great dressing and very tasty fried shrimp.

The only drawback is the size of the place. They have a nice patio outside but the interior is pretty small. Luckily I usually get my wings to go so that I can feed the family at home.

I see on their website that they are planning another location in this section of Florida up in S. Ortega. No word on exactly where yet. But I may need to go there for lunch some days!

Go Hurricane Wings!

Good Bye Cold Stone Ice Cream

Sorry to see them leave, but Cold Stone Ice Cream on Cr210 near Publix closed their doors in October for good. Not sure why they shut down but my kids are sad to see them gone. Great ice cream but a little expensive. I think one of the things that really hurt them is that there wasn't a lot of room for people to sit around and enjoy it. The store had some indoor seating but no outdoor seating. That made it tough for when you bring a group of kids there and you try to keep them together and happy.

The location up in JCP is still open. That location has an outdoor patio which is ideal for kids and groups. Too bad the 210 store didn't have the room.

I'll tell you the one thing that is happy with them closing... my waist line! :)

Kim's Nails

Guess what is opening soon? Kim's Nails is located behind McDonald's on the West side of CR210. Just what we need, another nail salon. Let's see, we have one by Chocolate Meltdown, one near Ginger Bistro, another near Publix and probably a couple near Winn Dixie. Wow! There must be a lot of people with bad fingers and toes here in NW St. Johns County.

Don't get me wrong. I have no problem with a person trying to start a business and make a buck. But how many of the same type of business can we sustain in a short stretch. For the business owners, I hope that they all do well. I just can't see how so many of these nail salons can survive.

Saturday, November 3, 2007

Latest on 210

It's been a while since my last post. It has been relatively quiet on CR 210 lately. The exterior of Starbucks at i95 has been completed. Now we are waiting on the interior buildout. Suprisingly, The St. Johns Sun just started noticing it. I saw a blog on this today. They should have come to me as I dropped this news months ago.

NONNA'S CUCINA ITALIANA is planned to be built on CR 210 behind the "new" McDonalds outside of Johns Creek. No details at this point about the type of food (i.e. $$), but it sounds good. How many Italian places can we maintain on 210? We have Jenks and Bistro V already. Where will this place fit into the blend?

Indulge Salon has been underway for a while. This is also in the same strip. Looks like a day spa from what I've seen.

Doodle Doos and Dinner Diva are now both open for business.

There is also some discussion at the County Commish level about a new development being planned off Russell Sampson Rd. The biggest concern of course is the amount of traffic that would get dumped back onto CR 210 and then to I95.

That's it for tonight.