Tips to Prepare Your Home for Holiday Guests

November 16, 2016 by Chris Bohn

Tips to Prepare Your Home for Holiday Guests

Can you believe it’s mid November already? Time to start planning for the holiday season. Are you expecting company or do you have family coming to visit? We’re all so busy with our schedules, and I let time slip by and just realized that next week is Thanksgiving!

Driving home from a buyer’s inspection late today, I saw a home along NW 39th Avenue that is already decorated with Christmas lights. Guess I better get in gear and get some of my holiday decorating done too.

I’ve got Thanksgiving shopping to do this weekend, and need to get prepared. It’s been a great year for me and we’re looking forward to the holiday season.

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September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

September 9, 2015 by Chris Bohn

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Families, caregivers, charities and research groups across the United States observe September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. In the U.S., almost 13,000 children under the age of 21 are diagnosed with cancer every year; approximately 1/4 of them will not survive the disease.

The Children’s Oncology Group, a clinical trials group supported by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). It is the world’s largest organization devoted exclusively to pediatric cancer research for infants, children, adolescents, and young adults with cancer. Almost all hospitals/clinics that treat children with cancer in the US and Canada are part of the COG (including…St Jude Children’s Research Hospital…), which includes more than 200 centers in the United States, Canada, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand.

Being federally funded, this means there is a critical shortage of sufficient funds to conduct their research. So if you are in a giving mood, we suggest one of the following foundations as beneficiaries. They have been very generous to Children’s Oncology Group and fill the gap in funding enabling our group to continue with this important work.

https://www.childrensoncologygroup.org/

http://www.stbaldricks.org/…/get-involved-in-september-for…/

Children’s Oncology Group is the world’s children cancer experts and the organization has an office here in Gainesville, FL.

Children’s Oncology Group
University of Florida
6011 NW 1st Place
Gainesville, FL 32607

A Special Thank you to Meenaskshi Devidas for sharing this information with me for this post!

Have a Great Labor Day Weekend

September 4, 2015 by Chris Bohn

LABOR DAY WEEKEND is here! I hope you’ve got plans to enjoy your three day weekend.

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is a creation of the labor movement and is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

For me, Labor Day weekend marks the end of summer, and the kids are all back in school. It is almost FALL and we’re ready for fall weather and football.

I plan to enjoy the start of college football. Our Florida Gators are having their first game here at Ben Hill Griffin Stadium against New Mexico State on Saturday at 7:30pm. We’ve got a new coach and the start of a new season for the Gators. Let’s hope the rain stops by kick-off time!

GO GATORS !!!

Of course there is all kinds of Labor Day Sales everywhere too….so you might be out shopping over the weekend. Be safe on the roads too.

Take a Break! Relax and have some fun over your weekend!

Gainesville is Great Place to Live!

Merry Christmas

December 24, 2014 by Chris Bohn

It’s early morning on Christmas Eve. The weather radio woke me up at 6am with a tornado warning alert. It appears we will have a stormy, rainy day for our Christmas Eve here in Gainesville. We’ve had strange December weather here in Alachua County. Very unusual for it to be 72 degrees at 6am on Christmas Eve. But I won’t let the weather spoil my holiday spirit.

There is something soothing for me to sit in the dark living room with only the Christmas tree lights on. The house is quiet, and everyone is sleeping. It’s raining outside. Life is Good. I count my blessings every day. It’s Christmas Eve !!

From the Bohn home to your home………..Merry Christmas!

18th Annual Poinsettia Sale at UF

December 8, 2014 by Chris Bohn

Here’s another great annual Holiday Event in Gainesville! The 18th Annual Poinsettia Sale & Fundraiser at the University of Florida located at the Fifield Hall greenhouses on Hull Road. I just love the Annual Poinsettia Sale at UF.

Annual Poinsettia Sale at UF — Photo Courtesy of UF Environmental Horticulture UF/IFAS

WHEN: Thursday – December 11, 2014 8:00 am to 5:30 pm AND Friday December 12, 2014 8:00am to 3:00pm

The Environmental Horticulture Club’s 18th Annual Poinsettia Fundraiser

Over 30 varieties will be offered for sale including traditional reds and novelties such as Shimmer Surprise, Orange Spice, Winter Rose and Ice Punch. 6 ½” pots are the most popular and include colorful decorative pot covers. Larger showpieces in 8” and 10” pots will also be available along with centerpiece bowls.

While you are there, you should visit the National Poinsettia Cultivar Trials. Dr. Jim Barrett and his research team will be holding their annual show at the same time as our sale. This display includes more than 6,000 plants and is the largest show in North America. There will be 150 varieties on display this year. Many of these are the newest and most novel poinsettias. Every year, Dr. Barrett conducts a consumer survey to determine preferences of the public.

Please participate in this survey while you are visiting the Poinsettia Sale!

Open to Master Gardeners and the general public. No registration required.

Need Directions? Here is the MAP !

‘Tis the Season to Donate

November 29, 2014 by Chris Bohn

Today while watching football and browsing my Facebook feed, I came across an article called ‘Tis Better to Donate Than Accumulate by Joshua Becker. It really struck a chord with me and I wanted to offer up a suggestion to all for the Holiday season. I honestly do not need anything for Christmas. I don’t need to rush out and “buy” anything at all. Being content breeds gratitude and happiness.

I fully admit to being a bit of an accumulator. I’m not a hoarder, but I do have trouble throwing things away. So I need to change my brain. I need to go through stuff with the idea of DONATION. There are so many places to GIVE & DONATE in GAINESVILLE. Donating is a win-win situation.

Do I really need all those old board games in the closet?

Do I really need 8 blankets in the linen closet?

Do I really need to keep shoes & clothes that I will never wear again?

Do I really need to keep all those little-boy toys, since my son is now 21?

I think it’s time for me to do some sorting and donating. I think I will swing by a store and get some cardboard boxes and start my holiday mission to donate. I will break my cycle of accumulation. Sitting here writing this post, I know where to take full boxes of things to help others here in Gainesville.

Thanks Joshua for this article!

Tips to Prepare Your Home for Holiday Guests

Tips to Prepare Your Home for Holiday Guests

Tips on How to Prepare Your Home for Holiday Guests

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month

Have a Great Labor Day Weekend

Merry Christmas

18th Annual Poinsettia Sale at UF

‘Tis the Season to Donate

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