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The KT is proud to feature another local business!

The "KT" would like to feature another one of our locals, Miss Mary Bedard, a Gulf Breeze resident. Mary is a long time friend of all the locals on Pensacola Beach, and has "served" many of us an "adult beverage", while bartending at several local pubs. You can find her these days, with her warm smile and friendly "hello" at Paddy O'leary's Irish Pub, on the beach. Mary has had her own thing going on now for several years. She owns and operates "Atropicaldress" where you can find some of the latest "beach" attire, and many other of those hard to find treasures. She has her own "on-line store", a website, and is one of ebay's "power sellers." Her feedback score on ebay is 4110, with a positive feedback of 99.9%, over the past 7 years! Please take a moment to check out her website, and store, as you will surely find something of interest to you and your friends. Miss Mary is just another one of our "locals" the "KT", and all of us, are really proud of. While Miss Mary is one busy lady, you will most likely always find her at the local beach events, supporting local charities, and promoting our beach. http://atropicaldress.com/ http://myworld.ebay.com/atropicaldress

Support one of our great local business

The "Kokonut Telegraph" is all about letting others know when we see one of our own doing well in their chosen profession. Michelle Sander's, a long time Gulf Breeze resident, has been in the "housekeeping" business for ten years, and has just expanded by adding on her own automobile detailing company. Their new detailing location is located in Gulf Breeze, but, they do offer "mobile" services, as well. Her housekeeping services can handle any apartment, home, condo, or, business, as well. She has detailed, reliable, references available upon request, and is fully insured, bonded, and licensed. Her auto detailing service can come to you upon request, as well, with appointments in advance encouraged. Michelle was a valuable friend during the "Katrina-assistance" program locally, and is always very much involved with local assistance whenever, and wherever the need arises. Please give her a call for any of her professional services and know it is "one of our own", doing well in the "local-services" community.

850-712-6469

A driving TPS report

You know how at an intersection how no one ever pays attention? People use the time at a red light to catch up on some reading, make some phone calls, sleep, snort some sort of controlled substance? We all do it, well except for me.

It bugs me when I see people constantly stepping off the break and rolling forward an inch, or perhaps they are tripping out really bad and constantly pumping their brakes and their car’s front end is about to make contact with the ground? Those people bug me.

You know what? When the light is RED that means stop, not leave a 5 car distance and slowly roll forward. Here is what you do, it’s really not that hard (to me anyways), you leave a safe amount of distance from the car in front of you and you stop, you come to a complete stop…..THEN when the light turns GREEN you can legally go, move forward with life.

It’s really not that hard, at least for me it isn’t.

Try this, next time you are the 2^nd to the first at an intersection at a red light, honk your horn at the car in front of you, there is a very high chance the person in front of you isn’t paying any attention and they will probably think the light turned green and accelerate into traffic…. For some reason that seems a bit humorous to me, however I’m crazy so that may not apply to everyone.

Not so long ago I was at an intersection and I was patiently waiting in the LEFT turn lane, cars that wanted to go straight were to the right of me waiting for the light to turn green too. Anyhoot, I got the left turn green arrow (yay), the folks to the right of me still had a red. The guy right to the right of me waiting for his green light to go straight must have not been paying any attention at all, either saw the cars to his left moving and thought the light was moving, or perhaps he mistaken the left turn light for his circular green light he was waiting for, at any rate he floored it into the car in front of him, and quite frankly I can’t stop laughing. Luckily for him I didn’t see any damage as I drove off into the sunset via my left turn lane, sucks for him, might want to pay a little more attention next time then Mmm’kay?

First TPS report, ramdom talk, read at your own risk.

What's happening?
Well today I would like to just tell you what is on my mind, and perhaps get you to reflect on something that we all forget about at some point in our very busy lives.

What could I possibly talk about that? Pictures! They are "worth 1000 words" most would say, sometimes more, every pixel and in today's terms "bytes" can be priceless.
When was the last time you pulled out the family photo album? Really? Probably never? This might be my closed minded observation, but I think that not many people bother reflecting on the past and looking at the things that happened, the changes that happened over years or lifetimes.

It's ironic that we are so adamant about taking pictures of our families, vacations, natural disasters, weddings, etc. When a major storm comes the first thing we think about is what? Our photo albums and other irreplaceable items of course. Especially if you live in an area that is susceptible to big storms and need to evacuate (hurricanes perhaps?), you quickly grab your important do*****ents and all the pictures you can get your hands on and high tail it out of there. What's crazy is sometimes it takes a hurricane pointed toward us to remind us that these precious pictures and even documents exist, and subsequently make us look through them, in the end it's not all that bad after looking at the pictures.

So next time you go to take pictures of your newborn baby, or your vacation in Hawaii, think about the next time you actually looked at your photo album, and next time you go to add something, take a a couple moments to reflect. It's amazing how fast life can go, take a little time and reflect. Look at pictures and videos made 10 years ago, put yourself in those shoes and ask yourself if you would ever predict what you are doing today? Think a little bit in the future too, ask yourself..."What will I be doing 5 years from now?" You may have to ask yourself several times, most of us will first think "Well i'll win the lottery and be on the beach with my saltless margarita....". That is all that is on my mind right now (LIES!), I look forward to doing many more of these for the NEW and constantly improoving KokoNutTelegraph.