I ignored the warm sun yesterday and made one of my grandmother’s hearty recipes. Her recipes are the old school Southern recipes that generally require Cream of mushroom soup and a lot of calories, but her beef stroganoff is one of my favorites. Mr. F and I were discussing how hard it is to find [...]
Do you like my handy little countdown ticker? (look right under the header box) Yes, I really am this excited about the Pecan Festival. I have already told you about the years I spent being jealous of the festivals in other cities. We tried to pretend that May Fly was our festival… but as much [...]
I rode by today and saw that their marquee states “Reopening in October.” I don’t know if this means the actual Creek Ratz is reopening or if someone else will be opening in that location. They are hiring according to the sign. My personal theory on Creek Ratz was that it was too expensive for [...]
(Contest is here!) I have so many posts rolling in my head, and I need to pace them out but I can not keep exciting news to myself. Every time I go to New York, I comment that some of my favorite things are the butcher shops and delis that line the streets. Their meat [...]
It is so nice to be able to post news about our local economy growing when so much of the nation is in financial turmoil. Today was the groundbreaking ceremony for the new Heinz factory. This factory will bring approximately 350 jobs to the Florence area. My “flosspy” reports that the governor was even on [...]
I received a reminder on facebook about this weekend’s Greek festival. This is truly one of my favorite times of year. The past few years I have only been able to drive through and get take out… but it is almost as good as being there. I rode by the Greek Church today and noticed [...]
I love the little tidbits that people are emailing me. I apologize if I don’t post something for you, I am trying to have a method behind the madness. This email hit my inbox earlier, and I noticed it was about one of my many facebook friends. Many of you are probably familiar with Travis [...]
Looking around town I see lots of new buildings going up. What are they? Who is coming to town? There is a Five Guys Burgers coming to the Florence Mall. I have eaten at a Five Guys in Knoxville, and it was really good. We need more places to eat in Florence, so this is [...]