Merry Christmas from Florahome USA

There's a song that was written a long time ago some of you may remember. The song was written by Mahalia Jackson and best expresses what Florahome USA was meant to be about. These are the words,...

If I Can help somebody

If I can help somebody, as I pass along,
If I can cheer somebody, with a word or song,
If I can show somebody, how they're travelling wrong,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

Chorus:
My living shall not be in vain,
Then my living shall not be in vain
If I can help somebody, as I pass along,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

If I can do my duty, as a good man ought,
If I can bring back beauty, to a world up wrought,
If I can spread love's message, as the Master taught,
Then my living shall not be in vain.

Florahome USA unfortunately on many occasions misses the mark, but that's what Christmas is all about isn't it,... blogs are written by people and people try as they will make mistakes. But God still loves us anyway and sent his own son, Jesus to die in our place so that we could live. The future of Florahome USA is still uncertain, but while it remains on the web hopefully its visitors will remember the Christmas message of love and forgiveness and be forgiving of its mistakes. Even if this little experiment fails, perhaps somewhere along the way it will have helped someone and at least in some way fulfilled its purpose. So to all of you who have visited Florahome USA and to those who will, have a Very Merry Christmas!

Florahome USA Blog News

The latest from the Florahome Usa Blog is a mixture of sad news and Brad news. From the beginning, the BP oil disaster has read like a Hollywood script - greedy industrial giant ignors warnings inevitably wreaking havoc until unlikely hero finds the answer and saves the day. According to recent rumor, Brad Pitt already had a BP movie in the works, but that rumor has now been capped while the rupture in the gulf continues to wreak havoc. Florida and particularly the Pensacola area has seen determined beach goers suffering for all that determination as local officials, health officials and a lot of other officials can't decide just how safe it is to go in the water. Whether you live here in Florahome, Florida or elsewhere in the USA, there's a good chance you've seen a disaster in one form or another and can feel for those suffering from this one. You also know the help and prayers of others can be a great comfort and are very much appreciated. They are and Thank you. How this will all play out is still unknown but even now there's talk of options that sound so much like one of those Hollywood disaster flicks it's truely scarey. This Florahome USA blog can only echo the voices of all in the gulf region and ask that you all please - KEEP PRAYING!

Florahome USA Blog

The Florahome USA blog has maybe found a little good news about Florida for a change. Tomorrow's opening day for the new Wizarding World of Harry Potter attraction at Orlando's Universal Studios theme park and with its investment of over $200 million and a legion of Harry Potter fans, it's a much needed brightspot in Florida's gloomy news of late. If one British production company can so damage Florida's tourist trade, perhaps another can work some magic and bring it back. Of course Harry Potter fans know Harry's the 'chosen one' but it may take the whole cast with wands out to rescue Florida from the oil dragon still lurking off the coast. You can find the latest on the oil spill here, but if you find it just too depressing, at least now all you readers of the Florahome USA blog know where to go in Florida to get some butterbeer.

Blog in Florahome, Florida

The Florahome USA blog in Florahome, Florida finds Florida's beaches still open, though portions of the oil plume are heading for the western part of the Florida panhandle. For more information, the Bradenton Times has a more complete update on the oil spill situation. For information on President Obama's visit to the region and his address to the nation, click here. To better prepare for any future disasters, you'll find a good deal of valuable information at floridadisaster.org. It's going to be another scorcher here in Florahome and elsewhere in Florida so stay cool and thanks for visiting the Florahome USA blog.

FLORAHOME BLOG - Oil Spill Update

The Florahome USA blog oil spill update for June 10 2010 finds at the moment about as much frustration in those states threatened by the oil in the gulf as the amount of oil itself. Efforts to pin down an accurate figure for the amount of oil being released into the gulf are still ongoing. One of the main problems causing all the frustration is that no one knows if or when the oil may reach the Florida coast. The other big cause for concern is that the people who live and work in the area and who have the most to lose if the situation isn't handled correctly are not the ones in control of the situation, BP is. Having a bear just outside the family's camping tent is a scary thing. Trusting a gas station attendant you don't know to take care of the bear is even scarier. While we wait, thanks to those who are working and preparing to work to get us through this crisis and a special thanks to all those who visit the Florahome USA blog and who are continuing to pray for the best outcome possible.

Florahome Blog - Florahome, Florida

This post for the Florahome USA blog of Florahome, Florida is an
update on the current oil situation. --- Part of the gulf has been reopened for fishing, but how long Florida can avert this man-made monster is anyone's guess. Although Florahome is a good distance from the beach, no one in Florida is going to avoid the effects of this disaster if it does reach the Florida shore the way it has in Louisiana. To see Florida's beautiful beaches, its wildlife and economy threatened each day is hard for any resident of the state to witness and especially for those of us who have lived here all our life and have so many memories. Pray that those memories aren't all we'll be left with when this crisis is over. This BBC report illustrates more clearly than most exactly what is happening with the leak itself and will hopefully help in understanding the situation for readers of the Florahome USA blog. Thanks also to those praying for Louisiana and Florida.

Flora - home USA

The Flora and the home part of the name Florahome comes from one of the prominent families in the area, the Sipprells. There are different versions of the story, but basically they all have to do with Flora Sipprell and people either going to her home or asking if Flora was home. Happily for us, her name wasn't Jocelyn. It was a simpler world when the town was established by the Georgia Southern and Florida Railway back in 1899. Those who have been here long enough will still remember the sound of the train coming through each day. It would've been impossible to imagine in 1899 the name Florahome or Florahome USA appearing on something called an internet, but Florahome USA has climbed now to the second page of Google which should make it easier to tell someone how to find this blog. Speaking of blogs, you can google 'Florahome blog' and you'll see Florahome USA on the very first page of Google. Better still, google 'Florahome USA blog' and we'll be in the number one spot returned. If not, it should be pretty close. There are still changes being made here and there, and this will continue whenever appropriate. For those out of work and looking for a job, there are some links in the Link Library - and you also may be interested in this EB article. Also added are quite a few links for Florida buffs in the library as well. If anyone knows of any Florida links that should be included in the Link Library, you can email Florahome USA at the address at the bottom of the page. And don't forget to let people know about Flora, her home, and Florahome USA.

You can help preserve the history of Florahome and other places in Florida by sending your information, memories, stories and photos to the email address at the bottom of the page. Please do not send any copywrited material. Thanks

Florahome, Florida - Florahome USA

Finding real information on Florahome, Florida can be found at Florahome USA. The Florahome USA blog is located in Florahome, Florida, so when you read on the internet about Florahome's five star restaurants and wonderful hotel accomodations and how you can easily get to those accomodations by rental car from the Florahome International Airport, you might want to check here first. Anyone living here in Florahome can tell you the only way you'll be eating five star food in Florahome Florida is at somebody's home. The closest thing we have to a restaurant of any kind at the moment would be the Subway at the Kangaroo Express, but unlike a 5 star restaurant, you are not required to wear shoes. We have no airport here either, although you may occasionally see people flying through Florahome as if they WERE in a plane. As for those hotel accomodations, this may come as a surprise to some folks even here in Florahome, but early in its history, Florahome would have in fact been able to provide a hotel room for its guests within a short distance from a beautiful little train station. But like the train station that burned down in 1923, those hotel rooms are now but a memory. There was even a Florahome library at one time, but it too was forgotten long before there was a thing called the internet. Like the Florahome Centennial Committee did with its Florahome 100th year anniversary celebration back in October of 1999, it's good to occasionally remind folks of Florahome's history, of what it once was and what it can be now in this new age of possibilities. The whole point of the matter is this - however Florahome may be percieved, we the residence of Florahome can without reservation say this much, Florahome cannot at this moment accomodate a Boeing 737. It can however be a very pleasant place to live. And just so you know it's real and not some web bot making it up, this information is coming to you directly from right here in Florahome, Florida at Florahome USA.

You can help preserve the history of Florahome and other places in Florida by sending your information, memories, stories and photos to the email address at the bottom of the page. Please do not send copywrited material. Thanks

UPDATE:
Since many people are coming from Google to Florahome USA via this post - here's a link to the current Florahome USA post in case you missed the button over on the right side of the page. You can find all the Florahome USA posts further down also on the right hand side in the blog archive. Be sure to visit the Bulletin Board page too - it's usually updated every day.

FLORAHOME USA community center

The community center of Florahome USA can be a great way to let those in the Florahome area or wherever the Florahome USA blog is seen, know about your next club meeting or some special event you'd like to announce. And if you've ever had a pet missing, you know how important it is to get the word out to as many people as possible as quickly as you can. The Florahome USA community center could be an immediate way to reach those able to help. It may take a little time for the community center at Florahome USA to become as popular as the corner of State Road 100 and Coral Farms Road for putting up a sign you'd like everyone to see, but if you take a look at the community center at the moment, it has potential. Not that there's anything wrong with a good old fashioned sign stuck right where folks can actually see it, but you generally catch more fish with a net than with a single hook. How successful the Florahome USA blog becomes will ultimately be decided by its visitors, but if it does develop into something useful, the Florahome USA community center will in all likelyhood still be around.

FLORAHOME USA Link Library

If you haven't visited the link library on Florahome USA lately, the place just keeps gettin' bigger. Of course the library can't replace Google, but it does put a great deal of reading material in a fairly small space. A good internet directory (which is basically what the link library is) can save people searching the internet an enormous amount of time, but so many directories today are either automated or outdated and only add to the internet clutter. The links in the Florahome USA link library are for the most part pretty much up to date, and if they ARE automated, they still provide some useful information. As long as the number of links are kept to a reasonable level, the library should be a plus and avoid becoming just another example of information overkill. Another point about the blog that may need to be made, is that while Florahome USA is mainly intended to be for and about Florahome Florida and the people who live here, it's also meant to be a place on the web for Florahome's neighbors and other Florida residents, as well as those 'just passin' thru'. In time, there should be a fair balance between those links having to do with Florahome or the state of Florida and the ones linking to something more general like,... Spongebob Squarepants. That may be a bad example since there isn't a Spongebob Squarepants link in the link library, but you can go to the Nickelodeon link on the kid's page and find Spongebob if that's what your looking for. Well,... you know, you have to make sure the links are working for the kids is why it was tested. It was basically for the kids. That Spongebob game isn't that hot anyway. You can beat that,... creature thing to bloody pulp and it still won't go down. Well,... it was just the one game - for the kids. Well anyway, the link library's here at Florahome USA whenever you need it.

FLORAHOME USA BLOG!

The Florahome USA blog in its ongoing effort to make itself easily found on the internet, is now in upper case for your convenience. Sometimes the most effective means to achieving a goal is overlooked because of its sheer simplicity, but the old KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) adage may apply in this case. Along those same lines, a link was added to the Homework Help shelf of the Link Library this morning that may be useful to not only students, but anyone looking for a fairly simple way to improve their memory. These techniques help make what you want to remember stick out in your mind like this Florahome USA blog is trying to stick out on the internet. The website linked to also has many other mental tools you may find useful, so check it out. This post is being kept short and simple as well to focus on more behind the scenes stuff, but hopefully this blog will be kept reasonably up-to-date. The internet has enough 'last updated in 1804' blogs and websites. Even if that's the fate of this blog, AT LEAST THEY'LL KNOW FLORAHOME USA WAS HERE!

Check Local Gas Prices at Florahome USA

Your welcome to check your local gas prices here at Florahome USA anytime just by clicking on the menu where it says gas and weather,... and thanks for stopping by. Sounds like an old advertisment from the fifties or early sixties doesn't it? Well that was the kind of courteous treatment people expected when stopping for gas back in the day and so by Jiminy, we're bringing it back for our, 'Check Your Local Gas Prices at Florahome USA' post. It must be hard for the young to fathom a world when gas stations were called service stations and along with your gas, you could get your windows washed and your oil checked while you yourself never even had to step out of the car. Can you remember the last time you heard the word courtesy? But it actually was in vogue at one time and so a little bit today probably wouldn't hurt. Well anyway,... enough with the nostalgia because now - when you Google Florahome USA, you can forget the parenthesis! Yes Florahome friends and neighbors, we are now officially showing up in in the Google search results for Florahome USA with NO PARENTHESIS!!! Okay, so we're in the fifth spot on page four, but at least you can find us now. The timing is just about right since the basic structure of this blog pretty much complete. Of course there will be more links added and updated when possible, but Florahome USA should be a useful place for Florida locals as well as out-of-towners even if a day or two is missed. It was a little scary today seeing how close we are to paying three dollars for a gallon of gas. Of course we were told it would probably get that high this summer, but it's different hearing about the possibility and actually seeing the numbers at the gas pump. Apparently it has more to do with the 'economic recovery' than our oil glutted sea. That's comforting. In debating as to whether to make Florahome USA a news site or not, there's now a story out about why the bees are all dying. maybe a compromise would be best on that deal about not making this a news blog and put a news link or two in the link library so readers will have a choice whether to read the news or look at monster trucks. While some may prefer Florahome USA to be a little more Mayberry than Manhattan, that's hard to do when Goober's selling gas at three bucks a gallon. Well we can't bring back back 30 cents for gas, but we can invite you to check your local gas prices right here at Florahome USA anytime. And by Jiminy, we can also say - please come again.

Florahome USA - Florahome, FL Florida

If your looking for the Florahome USA blog in Florahome Florida, you found it. If you just need to see where Florahome FL is on the Florida map, click here. If your finger just had a spasm and you clicked the wrong link and ended up on a blog about some place in Florida called Florahome, well,..... would you like some orange juice? Reading about the census today, the good citizens of Putnam County Florida have responded to the 2010 census slightly better than most folks in the USA, with only about a quarter of its citizens using the census form to line the bottom of their bird's cage. According to the census of 2000 there were 1589 of us living in Florahome back then. It'll be interesting to see how fruitful we've been since then and just how much we've multiplied. More links have been added to our Florahome USA blog and a few changes or words have been added here and there. If you live in Florahome or somewhere in Florida close by, or you just came here looking for information on Florahome Florida,... or even if you just dropped by from a forefinger spasm, if you ever want to come back, (don't laugh - the census takers will hear you ) or you want to tell someone else how to get to this blog, all you have to do is enter Florahome USA in your Google search with parenthesis around the Florahome USA like this - "Florahome USA" and we will pop up in the search results right under the little Google map of Florahome, Florida. At least at the time this was posted it will. Of course our goal is to get to that front page or close to it without the parenthesis as most people will just type Florahome USA and leave out the " " and get that Floradix iron supplement ad from FloraHealth.com. If your feeling tired and run down, this could be a good thing and you may want to try the Floradix. Otherwise, you may not get back here for a while. At any rate, whether you live in Florahome or somewhere in the Florahome area,... or your just looking to warm your spasmotic forefinger in the Florida sunshine, we're happy you found Florahome USA. That's,... "Florahome USA".

Florahome USA

If you google 'Florahome USA,' right now, (May 5, 2010) the first site you will see returned is one promoting an iron rich supplement. If you google Florahome.com you will not see any information about Florahome in the first website returned for that search either. To see a website with genuine information about Florahome Florida returned first, you must search specifically for Florahome Florida. Florahome Florida is as you would expect, the most searched for term when searching for Florahome in Florida, so with most of the websites that contain actual content about Florahome competing for the top spot for that one search term, it may be a long wait before we manage to make it to page one there. The other two searches - Florahome.com and Florahome USA may be doable with a little time and effort. That's good since those would be the more likely search terms someone would use if they were trying to find this blog. Already, if you do a search for Florahome Florida in Google Blogs, we are listed about 4th place. We also currently come in at the number one spot for the 'Where is Florahome' blog search and of course we're #1 for Florahome USA. Unfortunately many people aren't even sure what a blog is and defintely have no clue where to find one. In case your curious, all you need to do is click the little arrow where it says 'more' on the Google search page and you'll see the word blog. Click on that and type in a search term just like you would any search and you will see a list of the blogs related to your search. Florahome USA would be easy for anyone to find there, but since the majority of those using the Google blog search are other bloggers, we will have to get somewhere near the top for the general search of the web to get the average person to find this site. On the brighter side, it does make it quieter around here and easier to work on the things that still need doing. For instance, a new game was posted on the kid's page today and of course was tested a couple of times to make sure everything was working right. Okay, it was played until the 'King of the Cul-de-sac' level was reached, but everybody's got to have a break sometime. More additions to the link library have been made and hopefully the library will eventually have enough link variety to give most folks something they would be interested in. It's debatable whether to put any news other than local on Florahome USA with there being so few places you can go these days where your not constantly bombarded with bomb scares or oil spills like the one currently headed for the Florida coast. But other people may have a different view of Florahome Florida and what Florahome USA should be - some may prefer Florahome.com to Florahome.calm,... but we'll see.

Florahome has a Blog!

Yes it's true, Florahome has its very own blog now called Florahome USA. It was just listed in the Google blogs. That's one good thing about being the only blog in town - you get listed right up there at the top. Getting us up there on the first search results page won't be as easy, but it'll get there. A link has been added on the Business page, but hopefully that will only be a start. In case you haven't visited Peacock's Nursery on Facebook, they have a nice page you should check out. For those who don't have their own page, just consider Florahome USA your home page.

Florahome USA

Florahome USA will be like the island on the TV series, 'Lost' until people find it on Google or maybe Yahoo. This means a lot of rambling on about Florahome USA to get us on the map, but once people do begin to find it, the word will probably get around. You might call this the Grand Opening for Florahome USA, or maybe just a wave from the front porch. Anyway, it's on the web now so we'll see how it goes. As you can see, Florahome USA is not too formal, - it's just a friendly little country blog and if you enjoy it, your support would be appreciated. If you haven't checked out the gas and weather page, it's a convenient place on Florahome USA to keep track of the weather and the gas prices. Nothing on Florahome USA is set in stone - since this is our home on the web, we should be able to move the furniture around or paint the barn purple if we get the notion. Anyway, don't be surprised if Florahome USA tears down a wall or two on a whim. There's no telling what it will be like from day to day - this is really just an experiment but maybe it will be less boring that way. Well there are still a few things that need doing to do to get this show on the road, so have a look around, make yourself at home and welcome to Florahome USA.

You can help preserve the history of Florahome and other places in Florida by sending your information, memories, stories and photos to the email address at the bottom of the page. Please do not send any copywrited material. Thanks