by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Feb 17, 2015 | Uncategorized
My good friend Todd Snatchmeyer once gushed so enthusiastically about seeing Tony Bennett live that I was convinced Tony was something special. Frank Sinatra said George Jones was, “the second best-singer in the world.” Frank did not think he was the...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Feb 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Since the first sailors ventured off land they have all been superstitious. Changing the name of a boat is tantamount to disaster if proper procedures are not rigorously followed. Appeasing the ancient gods of the winds and seas must be accomplished for the renamed...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Feb 2, 2015 | Uncategorized
Saturday was too blustery to go boating so Karen and I searched for fun things beginning with “B” at the South Florida Fair. This fair got its start as The Palm Beach County Fair in 1912 and moved around experiencing name changes until it settled at the...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Jan 27, 2015 | Uncategorized
The annual KISS Country 99.9 FM Chili Cook-off was yesterday at the 300-acre CB Smith Park in Pembroke Pines. They opened the south parking entrance at 1:00am and the north parking entrance at 6:30am. The gates to get inside the concert area were set to open at...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Jan 20, 2015 | Uncategorized
Karen got a three-day work pass and decided we needed a mini vacation by boat. We reserved a slip in the Dinner Key Marina in Coconut Grove and headed south from Port Everglades on a sunny Saturday morning. The...
by jeff@lyonsroar.com | Jan 12, 2015 | Uncategorized
Karen and I ventured into Slackers Bar in Ft. Lauderdale on Sunday, 1-4-15, to watch The Pack play The Boys in the playoffs. Slackers is a cool bar we visit on occasion, but on game day it’s the top Cheesehead hangout in south Florida. The place was packed with...
