We tried the pulled pork samples at the 2025 Christmas Parade in Lake Placid Florida from Porkchop’s Barbecue.
One word describes it: AWESOME!
Can’t wait until they open. I produced a short video with a word from the owner.
[Verse 1]
No alarm clocks
No more rules
Fog is falling
We’re breaking school rules
Bass boats turned into water sleds
Candy canes dancing in our heads
[Chorus]
Jingle bells are ringing
Freedom’s in the air
Pajamas all day
We just don’t care
Cookies in the oven
Lights on the tree
School’s out for Christmas
Just you and me
Another music video from R. Michael Brown, writer | producer.
He gave her roses in the morning light
She crushed the petals
Out of sight
A thousand promises
He kept them all
But she built her kingdom on a house too small
She loves the lie
The thrill of the game
Stealing hearts
Leaving blame
He’s the sun
She’s the shadow at noon
Dancing under someone else’s moon
He carved her name in the oak out back
She carved his trust with a cold attack
His arms were steady
His heart was true
But she wore deceit like a brand-new shoe
A whisper here
A secret there
She walks on fire
She doesn’t care
She loves the lie
The thrill of the game
Stealing hearts
Leaving blame
He’s the sun
She’s the shadow at noon
Dancing under someone else’s moon
She sees his tears but they don’t sting
She wears betrayal like a diamond ring
His love was the ocean
Wide and deep
But she swam away
Secrets to keep…
Wrote and produced a Thanksgiving love song for my wife Leonor Maya Martinez (Mama) about our life here now on #LakeHuntley in Lake Placid, FL.
What do you think?
I can write and produce one for your special person, occasion, product, or brand.
By R. Michael Brown, Writer| Producer & Former Field Engineer
In the lake in front of the Polynesian Hotel and Village, Disney World built a wave machine on an island to pump waves toward the hotel beach for surfing.
The company I worked for was doing some geotechnical work on it and I was the only surfer in the company so they sent me out to test the waves.
When the machine worked, which wasn’t very often, it would pump out a 2 foot closeout of murky swamp water.
There is only one photo that I’ve found of someone surfing the wave (above). A Disney employee newsletter ran the photo and said it was Dick Nunis surfing in the photo, the Disney executive that came up with the wave machine idea and acquired the $400,000 budget to build it. Might have been him but the newsletter also said it was a 5 ft. wave. That’s a stretch LOL.
It wasn’t a very powerful wave but it was strong enough to ride on a longboard AND wash away the man-made fine white sand beach next to the Polynesian.
I told them they should try to use larger/heavier grain size quartz beach sand; but, that’s tan and gray and they wanted pristine white – I’m sure for the Disney attraction brand or something. Powdery white sand only comes in tiny grain sizes and is easily moved by wind and waves. Erosion was instantaneous. Common sense really.
I was just an ocean engineering college student, employed field soils engineer, and surfer, so what did I know, right? They didn’t listen or try it.
It failed.
So the ride/attraction was cancelled and scrapped.
Nunis did finally get his wave machine with Typhoon Lagoon in 1989 – But that’s another story…
Thursday, 8-21-2025
By R. Michael Brown
Huge perfect surf from Hurricane Erin at Flagler Pier in North Florida.
Even though the storm is 600 miles away this morning, the swell is still pumping in, even from the backside of the hurricane.
Waves are overhead – look closely at the outside sets to see surfers ripping it up!
Video 3:03 min. Surfers riding overhead waves, clean up set, offshore winds.
Check on the current surf conditions with our FREE Florida East Coast Beach Ad-Free Webcams here on BrownieBytes.NET
BTW, all the construction equipment and material is for the rebuilding of the pier that was damaged by a hurricane years ago.
Hurricane Erin is due east of West Palm Beach now.
Giant closeouts this evening in Boca Raton. Not rideable.
Some waves either snuck through the Bahamas or they’re wrapping around the islands.
Interesting that this size at the same time is NOT hitting Palm Beach, Singer Island, Jupiter, and further north of Ft. Pierce.
Be careful out there. If you’re not a serious experienced surfer, don’t go in the water deeper than ankle deep. The currents, waves, and runouts are now extreme.
Inexperienced surfers should stay out of the surf too. I saw several surfers paddling out upcoast today and they had a “come-get-me-stroke.”
See the live beach webcams on my webpage on Brownie Bytes to see the surf and conditions:
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