B U G S – The bugs are back in town here in Homestead due to all of the recent heavy rains. You may be thinking to yourself, ‘Hey – Wait a minute. I live in Homestead. It hasn’t rained since March !’ You may also be thinking to yourself, ‘No doubt. I thought the sky was caving in on us yesterday afternoon. My yard turned into a giant lake ! My new patio furniture was thrown by the funnel cloud into the canal !’ There is rain all around us. Some of us have received a lot of it this past week, and some of us are still living in a dust bowl. Pretty soon all of us will get a lot of rain, and the bugs will flock to Homestead on their Summer break. Get ready to be eaten alive by little itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny mouths with glow-in-the-dark green eyes.
G A S – I filled-up my car this morning with not quite 11 gallons of gas at Chevron on Useless-One at Campbell Drive at the remarkable price of $4.059 per gallon. That’s about 15 to 20 cents per gallon higher than every other gas station in the general vicinity of that Chevron, but I am kinda sorta semi-loyal to Chevron, and I really wanted to use my fresh new Chevron-Texaco credit card this morning for the first time. $4.059 may seem outrageous to a majority of whining and complaining Americans, but $4.059 for the equivalent of a gallon of gas anywhere in Europe is known as ‘the good old days of the 1990s’.
J A V A – Speaking of items that we Americans love to spend a lot of money on – Starbucks in Homestead – not to be confused with Starbucks in Florida City – is OPEN for BUSINESS ! OK calm down Travis. The drive-thru is open for business. The inside of the joint is apparently not quite ready for customer utilization, so you’ll just have to wait a little while longer to sit inside for hours on your wireless Apple Mac.
One final item of interest – Many of the mega-stores and restaurants at the first phase of the Homestead Pavilion shopping, dining, and entertainment complex at Campbell Drive and the Turnpike are expected to make their grand openings between the middle of October and the middle of November – just in time for the NASCAR Championship Series at the Homestead-Miami Speedway and of course the Christmas 2008 shopping season.
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6 replies on “Saturday Morning Shenanigans”
I have enjoyed the interior cafe experience of the Homestead Sbux about a week ago. I like the coziness of that space.
Apparently I drove by the joint too early then because it appeared that only the drive-thru was open for the biz. This morning after 7 AM there were no vehicles in the parking lot, and no vehicles in the drive-thru. I’ll have to try them again tomorrow morning at a slightly later time. I’m ready to spend $4.25 on a good cup of Java !
Hey Chris, $4.25 is what you pay for some fancified version of coffee. The actual cup of coffee at Sbux is less than $2. 🙂
Now WHY would I go to a fancy schmancy place such as Starbucks to get a mere ordinary cup of $2 coffee ? I can get one of those real quickly at McDonald’s, Burger King, Wendy’s, or even Dunkin Donuts ! If I’m going to Starbucks then my beverage of choice is going to have one of the following three words in it – ‘Latte’, ‘Mocha’, or ‘Macchiato’ ! 😯
Because those fru-fru drinks don’t taste as good, and the cup of brewed coffee at Sbux tastes a whole lot better than the ones at BK or Mickey D’s.
I beg to differ. I adore their frou-frou beverages. I don’t think that I have ever gone to Starbucks to get a normal $2 cup of coffee. In a recent national survey McDonald’s coffee was determined to be better tasting than Starbucks coffee, and I can agree with that finding. Both McDonald’s and Burger King make some pretty tasty coffee (for far less than $2). Dunkin Donuts makes some delicious coffee for less than $1.75.